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Melting Glaciers: It’s More Than Just Ice

In recent decades, global glacier depletion has become a ‘hot topic’. The world watches as age-old ice bodies are quickly melting away at unprecedented rates, due to human-induced climate change, and leaving behind dramatic changes to mountain landscapes, freshwater scarcity and significantly rising sea levels around the globe (Rasul, Dahe and Chaudhry, 2008).