Climate change causing earth to lose ice roughly the size of a state
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The information is based on the amount of Earth's cryosphere, which is made up of ice and stores three-quarters of the planet's freshwater. The shrinking was most noticeable in the Northern Hemisphere, with an annual loss of 102,000 square kilometres (about half the area of Kansas or the whole state of Telangana). Climate warming, according to estimates, is also shortening the period that ice remains frozen.