Tagged with 'glacier'

Melting Andean glaciers could leave 30 million high and dry

Washington DC, April 28, 2008 – About 99 percent of the Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia has disappeared since 1940, says World Bank engineer Walter Vergara, in his new report, “The Impacts of Climate Change in Latin America.” Although the glacier is over 18,000 years old, it is ...

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posted by Pat Falvey on Tuesday the 29th of April, 2008 at 12:31
tagged as global warming, glacier