Ancient Andes Glaciers Have Lost Half Their Ice In Just 40 Years
Source: New Scientist By Chelsea Whyte The snowcapped skyline of the Andes is beating a hasty retreat. Since the mid-1970s, the area covered by glaciers in Peru’s Cordillera de Vilcanota range has nearly halved, with most losses occurring below 5000 metres. Using Landsat images taken every decade, glaciologists at the Federal University of Rio Grande […]