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COP31: A look back at how ice is retreating across the globe (Video)

Vast shrinkage of glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica over the last half-century or so has caused the loss of 11 trillion tons of ice, according to data from the European Space Agency (ESA), raising global sea levels by more than three centimeters. Ahead of the COP31 in Turkey this month, the State of the Cryosphere report says that missing the 1.5C Paris Agreement target "will bring large-scale, and in many cases irreversible, impacts from the Earths melting ice sheets, permafrost, glaciers, sea ice and polar oceans."

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COP31: A look back at how ice is retreating across the globe (Video)

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