https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5qwd9/first-atlas-of-world-glaciers-reveals-dire-warning-for-water-scarce-future

Earth’s glaciers are melting as a result of human-driven climate change, a trend that has both local and global implications because glacial runoff provides freshwater to communities and ecosystems, while also contributing to sea level rise, which threatens coastal populations around the world.

Now, scientists led by Romain Millan, a postdoctoral scholar at the Institute of Environmental Geosciences in Grenoble, France, have produced the first global atlas of glacial movement and thickness, which reveals that the world’s glaciers have the potential to add an estimated 257 millimeters (10 inches) to sea level rise—roughly 20 percent less than previous estimates of about 13 inches.