The shrinking crown of the tropics: A consistent accelerated trend of glacier retreat since the 1980s
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Ren S., Zheng D., Zhou Y., et al. (2026). The shrinking crown of the tropics: A consistent accelerated trend of glacier retreat since the 1980s. The Innovation Geoscience 4:100217. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2026.100217
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Ren S., Zheng D., Zhou Y., et al. (2026). The shrinking crown of the tropics: A consistent accelerated trend of glacier retreat since the 1980s. The Innovation Geoscience 4:100217. https://doi.org/10.59717/j.xinn-geo.2026.100217
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Figure 1.
Spatiotemporal changes in glacier area and mass balance in the equatorial region since the 1980s
