Study: Alaska's melting mountain glaciers have big impact on sea-level rise In all, Alaska's glaciers are shedding about 75 gigatons -- or 75 billion tons -- of mass each year, a new study finds, with most of the loss coming from glaciers on land or by lakes, not those on the sea's edge.
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