Ecuadorean Glaciers Threatened by Warming
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Global warming is melting Ecuador’s cherished mountain glaciers and could cause several of them to disappear over the next two decades, Ecuadorean and French scientists said Wednesday.
The country’s cone-shaped Cotopaxi volcano, towering at 19,347 feet, lost 31% of its ice cover from 1976 to 1997, according to a study by Ecuador’s Meteorology Institute and France’s scientific research institute IRD. Other volcanoes such as El Altar could lose their glaciers entirely over the next 10 to 20 years.
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