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Water storage in ice and snow

View of Mount Erebus, Ross Island, Antarctica, covered in snow.

Almost 70% of the Earth’s freshwater is stored in ice caps, glaciers and permanent snow. Most of this is in Antarctica – the Greenland ice cap contains just 10% of the total global ice mass.

Rights: US Geological Survey/Public domain
Published:27 June 2017Size: 57.64 KB