Venezuela Has Lost All Its Glaciers
At one point, Venezuela, usually considered among the hottest nations in the Western Hemisphere, had glaciers. As of very recently, the last is gone.
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The last glacier was on Humboldt Pico, the country’s second-tallest mountain. According to The Guardian, “Venezuela has lost its last remaining glacier after it shrank so much that scientists reclassified it as an ice field. It is thought Venezuela is the first country to have lost all its glaciers in modern times.”
Climate change news usually covers great destruction, record storms, and the warming of large oceans. The Humboldt new is tiny by comparison. However, like small species that disappear because of climate disasters, it is one of the thousands of signs that the earth has changed, particularly in recent decades.
The Humboldt story will be forgotten soon, but the trend it represents will go on indefinitely.
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