Volume of glacier melt worldwide 2000-2020| ��ƽ��

Amount of melted ice in the ten UNESCO World Heritage glacier sites that lost the most ice between 2000 and 2020 (in billion tons)

Characteristic	Melting of ice in billions of tons*
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek (at the Canada / Alaska, USA border)	487
Frozen fjord of Ilulissat (Greenland, Denmark)	350
Vatnajökull National Park – the dynamic nature of fire and ice (Iceland)	132
Los Glaciares National Park (in Patagonia, on the Argentina / Chile border)	88
Aasivissuit-Nipisat. Inuit hunting grounds between sea and ice (west Greenland, Denmark)	39
Tajik National Park (Pamir Mountains, in eastern Tajikistan)	12
Te Wähipounamu (Southwest zone of New Zealand)	10
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks (Canada)	9
Swiss Alps Jungfrau-Aletsch (Switzerland)	7
Xinjiang Tianshan (in China, in Xinjiang, eastern sector of the Tianshan)	4

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2022

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2000 - 2020

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*The source indicates that the results may be inaccurate.

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Many glaciers listed as UNESCO World Heritage sites have experienced ice melt between 2000 and 2020. This melting is due to global warming. The listed site that lost the greatest amount of ice in 20 years is the group of glaciers called "Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek," located on the border of Canada and the state of Alaska. This site saw 487 billion tons of ice melt in 20 years. In second place is the Ilulissat Icefjord site, located in Greenland, with 350 billion tons of ice melted. Third on the list is Vatnajökull National Park, or the dynamic nature park of fire and ice, in Iceland, which lost 132 billion tons of ice in 20 years.