Last remaining glaciers in the Pacific will soon melt away
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 - 12:40
in Earth & Climate
The last remaining tropical glaciers between the Himalayas and the Andes will disappear in the next decade - and possibly sooner - due to climate change, a new study has found. The glaciers in Papua, Indonesia, are "the canaries in the coal mine" for other mountaintop glaciers around the world, one of the senior authors of the paper said.