June 16, 2024
- Climate change has caused the Humboldt Glacier, Venezuela’s last glacier, to vanish. This has made the South American country the first country in modern history to lose all its glaciers.
- According to climatologists, the Humboldt Glacier, also known as La Corona Glacier, lost ice to such a great extent that it can no longer be classified as a glacier. This shrunken ice body has now been downgraded to an ice field.
- Located in the Sierra Nevada de Merida mountains, the Humboldt Glacier initially covered more than 4.5sq kms. However, climate change has caused it to shrink to around 0.02sq kms.
- In 1919, Venezuela had six glaciers that covered an area of 1,000sq kms. However, five of them melted away by 2011.
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