Venezuela losing its glaciers

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Venezuela may be the first country to lose all its glaciers; their govt wanted to cover it with a  'thermal blanket'.

We don't seem to be leraning fast enough...



https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx8qv1nvdppo

Venezuela may be the first nation in modern history to lose all its glaciers after climate scientists downgraded its last one to an ice field.
The International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI), a scientific advocacy organisation, said on X that the South American nation's only remaining glacier - the Humboldt, or La Corona, in the Andes - had become "too small to be classed as a glacier".
Venezuela has lost at least six other glaciers in the last century.
With global average temperatures rising due to climate change, ice loss is increasing, helping to raise sea levels around the world.
"There has not been much ice cover on the last Venezuelan glacier since the 2000s", Dr Caroline Clason, a glaciologist at Durham University, told Newsround. "Now it's not being added to, so it has been reclassified as an ice field."
In March, researchers at the University of Los Andes in Colombia told AFP the glacier had shrunk from 450 hectares to just two.
Dr Kirkham and Dr Jackson said: "The latest projections show that between 20 and 80% of glaciers globally will be lost by 2100 (with significant regional variation), depending on the emissions pathway followed."
They said that even though "a portion of this loss is already locked in", rapidly lowering CO2 emissions could save other glacial deposits, "which will have enormous benefits for livelihoods, and energy, water and food security".