2024-05-16 15:27:22
(ANSA) – CARACAS, MAY 16 – The final glacier in Venezuela has disappeared regardless of the federal government’s uncommon efforts to reserve it. The lack of La Corona, degraded to an ice area after being diminished from greater than 1,100 hectares to lower than 5, makes this South American nation the one one within the Andean chain with no glacier, based on scientists.
“Our tropical glaciers have been disappearing quickly because the Seventies,” stated Alejandra Melfo, an astrophysicist on the Universidad de los Andes in Mérida.
Simply 40 years in the past Venezuela had at the very least three glaciers.
Though the nation is positioned within the tropics, its southernmost level, lower than 50 miles from the equator, consists of the northeastern tip of the Andes, with eleven peaks exceeding 15,000 toes above sea degree.
President Nicolás Maduro‘s cupboard introduced in December that it will buy about 83,000 sq. toes of geothermal roofing to safeguard what remained of La Corona. However Venezuelan scientists warned that the masking would do extra hurt than good, as a result of it will launch dangerous micro-plastics into the setting. (HANDLE).
2024-05-16 15:27:22