WASHINGTON – The snows of Kilimanjaro may soon be gone
The African mountain's white peak — made famous by writer Ernest Hemingway
Is rapidly melting, researchers report
Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007 Researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
And more than a quarter of the ice present in 2000 was gone by 2007
current conditions continue "the ice fields atop Kilimanjaro will not endure," the researchers said
The Kilimanjaro glaciers are both shrinking, as the ice at their edges melts
And thinning, the researchers foundSimilar changes are being reported at Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains in Africa
And at glaciers in South America and the Himalayas
current conditions continue "the ice fields atop Kilimanjaro will not endure," the researchers said
The Kilimanjaro glaciers are both shrinking, as the ice at their edges melts
And thinning, the researchers foundSimilar changes are being reported at Mount Kenya and the Rwenzori Mountains in Africa
And at glaciers in South America and the Himalayas
On Kilimanjaro, the researchers said, the northern ice field thinned by 6.2 feet (1.9 meters)
And the southern ice field by 16.7 feet (5.1 meters) between 2000 and 2007
Researchers compared the current area covered by the glaciers with maps of the glaciers based on photographs taken in 1912 and 1953 and satellite images from 1976 and 1989
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