Last remaining glaciers in Pacific ‘will melt away in less than a decade,’ study says

The world’s last remaining tropical glaciers, which exist high in mountain ranges between the Andes and the Himalayas, are on course to melt completely in less than a decade due to the climate crisis, a new study has found. The glaciers in Papua, Indonesia, are “the canaries in the coal mine” for other mountaintop glaciers around the world, said Professor Lonnie Thompson, one of the senior authors of the study.

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