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I'm writing a report after very long time, and it really feels great to be back on Tunza! Today's report is a summary of the study conducted by Michael Zemp, director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service and the study's lead author.

Glaciers worldwide have contracted to record low levels in the last 120 years of record-keeping, with melt off quickly accelerating in last decade. By and large, glaciers as of now lose between 50 to 150 centimeters (20 to 60 inches) of thickness each and every year, as was revealed in the Journal of Glaciology.

More than a billion people, particularly in Asia and South America, get the greater part of their drinking water from the seasonal melting of glaciers and snow, which has been established in researches previously.

In addition, accelerating ice loss is posing a huge problem because even if global warming did not continue to increase the temperature, glaciers in many regions will continue to diminish.

The twentieth century record ice loss seen in 1998 "has been surpassed in 2003, 2006, 2011, 2013, and likely again in 2014," Michael Zemp said.

 The long haul pattern of glaciers shows that in some locations, the glaciers have regained a considerable mass of their lost ice mass. Some supposed "ice tongues" formed by glaciers in places like Norway, for example, regained a few hundred metres in length during the 1990s, but when compared to the areas covered in the 19^th century we realize that they have retreated by several kilometers.