Climate change wreaking havoc with Colombia's glaciers
Climate change has helped melt nearly a fifth of Colombia's mountaintop glacier cover in just seven years, the government has said. The surface area of its six glaciers has shrunk from 45 square kilometers in 2010 to 37 square kilometers in 2017, for a decline of 18 per cent, the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies said.
It blamed the glacier loss on "extreme events associated with natural phenomena and climate change." If things go on like this the snow and ice covering atop Santa Isabel, a volcano in the Cordillera Central mountains could vanish over the next 10 years, said Omar Franco, the head of the institute.
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