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Kilimanjaro Ice Melting!
The ice cap of Mount Kilimanjaro is one of the most famous landmarks of Africa, but it may be gone in less than 20 years because of global warming.
About one third of Kilimanjaro's icefield has disappeared in just 12 years, and 82 percent of it has vanished since it was first mapped in 1912.
This information was in a report by a professor of geological sciences from Ohio State University.
It has been predicted that some of the first signs of changes caused by global warming would appear at the fragile, high-altitude ice caps and glaciers within the tropics.
In Peru, the Quelccaya ice cap has lost one fifth of its size just since 1963. One of the main glaciers there has retreated 150 meters in three years - that's 32 times greater than in the period between 1963-1978.
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