lake erie

According to the latest issue of the journal “Science,” Earth’s glaciers lost 260 gigatons of water every year between 2003 and 2009.  To put it in layman’s terms, that’s 1 Lake Erie (240 miles long 57 miles wide, average 60 feet deep) every 2 years. “There was a large amount of uncertainty in how much these glaciers were contributing to sea-level rise […]