Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Global warming claiming prehistoric glaciers

thedesertsunCHACALTAYA GLACIER, Bolivia - Up and down the icy spine of South America, the glaciers are melting, the white mantle of the Andes Mountains washing away at an ever faster rate.
"Look. You can see. Chacaltaya has split in two," scientist Edson Ramirez said as he led a visitor up toward a once-grand ice flow high in the thin air of the Bolivian cordillera.


// posted by Unknown @ 3:19 a.m.
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