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<div>Canada's high Arctic glaciers at risk of disappearing completely, study finds</div>

Satellite imagery shows hundreds of glaciers shrinking as average annual temperature rises 3.6C in 70 years Hundreds of glaciers in Canada’s high Arctic are shrinking and many are at risk of disappearing completely, an unprecedented inventory of glaciers in the country’s northernmost island has revealed. Using satellite imagery, researchers catalogued more than 1,700 glaciers in northern Ellesmere Island and traced how they had changed between 1999 and 2015. Related: Glacier loss is accelerating because of global warming | John Abraham Continue reading...

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