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RSS FeedsTropical mountain top glaciers may melt by next decade, or sooner: Study
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10 december 2019 09:15:55

 
Tropical mountain top glaciers may melt by next decade, or sooner: Study
(World News Science)
 


NEW YORK: The last remaining glaciers in the Earth`s tropical zone -- between the Himalayas in the North, and the Andes in the South -- will disappear within the next ten years, or possibly sooner, due to the ongoing climate crisis, according to a study. The researchers from Ohio State University in the US said the first glaciers to go could be the ones in Papua, Indonesia, which they called `the canaries in the coal mine` for other mountain top glaciers around the world. The study, published in the journal PNAS, noted that the melting of mountain top glaciers on the western half of New Guinea have increased rapidly due to a strong 2015-2016 El Nino. The researchers explained that the El...


 
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