Kilimanjaro’s shrinking northern glaciers, thought to be 10,000 years old, could disappear by 2030, researchers said Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.
The entire northern ice field, which holds most of Kilimanjaro‘s remaining glacial ice, lost more than 140 million cubic feet of ice in the past 13 years, said Pascal Sirguey, a research scientist at the University of Otago in New Zealand. That’s a cube measuring roughly 520 feet on each side.
The loss in volume is approximately 29% since 2000, while the total surface area lost is 32%, Sirguey said. Last year, the ice field split in two, revealing ancient lava that may not have seen the sun for millennia Read more…
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