63% of the glaciers in the tropical Andes were lost in the last 50 years

63% of the glaciers in the tropical Andes were lost in the last 50 years

Sixty-three percent of the glacial area of ​​the tropical Andes, covering parts of Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia, has been lost during the last half century due to climate change, experts said Monday in Bogota. The data was released in the presentation of the conclusions of the program «Monitoring Andean tropical glaciers in a…