The tropical glaciers are melting at their fastest rate in 300 years
Massive Melting Of Andes Glacier -- BBC
Glaciers in the tropical Andes own shrunk by 30-50% since the 1970s, according to a study. The glaciers, which provide fresh fill up representing tens of millions in South America, are receding next to their fastest rate in the precedent 300 years.
The study built-in data on around semi of all Andean glaciers and blamed the melting on an arithmetic mean high temperature mound of 0.7C from 1950-1994. Details appear in the academic journal Cryosphere.
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