{
  "id": 7753592,
  "title": "Speeding glaciers drive half a century of polar ice loss",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/speeding-glaciers-drive-half-a-century-of-polar-ice-loss",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-16T09:00:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-glaciers-century-polar-ice-loss.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The longest satellite record ever assembled shows that Greenland and Antarctica have lost 11.3 trillion metric tons of ice since the 1970s, raising global sea level by more than 3 centimeters (1.2 inches)—and that most of the loss has come from glaciers flowing faster into the ocean, not from melting at the surface.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}