Finally, you climb into an arctic-like zone with permanent snow and the glaciers that may soon disappear.

最后，你会爬到一个类似北极的区域，那里有着永久性的积雪和可能很快消失的冰川。

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About 14% of the ice and permanent snow atop Washington's Mount Rainier melted in the last 4 decades, a new study suggests.

一项新研究表明，华盛顿州雷尼尔山顶上的冰和常年积雪在过去的四十年里融化了大约14%。

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The rest (approximately 1.7%) is stored in polar ice caps, glaciers, and permanent snow, and another 1.7% in groundwater, lakes, rivers, streams, and soil.

其余的(大约1.7%)贮存在极地冰帽、冰川以及永久性积雪中，而另外1.7%则分布在地下水、湖泊、河流、溪流以及泥土之中。

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Also show are agricultural land use and land surfaces with little or no plant cover - such as bare ground, urban areas and permanent snow and ice.

BBC: How Earth's land is used

Of these freshwater resources, about 24 million km3 or 70% is in the form of ice and permanent snow cover in mountainous regions, the Antarctic and Arctic regions.

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To assess the contribution from melting ice sheets, scientists try to measure "mass balance, " which is the difference between the annual snow that falls on the permanent ice sheets each year, and the total mass of ice that melts or breaks off the sheets.

WSJ: Polar Ice Sheets Melt at Faster Pace