The International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) has recently reported that Venezuela’s last glacier, Humboldt (or La Corona), in the Andes, is now too small to be considered a glacier.
About the Glacier:
- Glacier is an accumulation of ice and snow that flows slowly over land. It falls under one of two main glacier categories:
- Alpine glaciers, which are frozen rivers of ice that flow slowly under their own weight from mountain sides into valleys, like those in the Hindu Kush Himalaya.
- Ice sheets, which are unrestricted and spread out in broad domes in multiple directions, found only in Greenland and Antarctica.
- The glacier is melting rapidly due to global warming and warming ocean currents.
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