Sunday, December 15, 2019

Indonesia’s little-known glaciers are melting so fast they could disappear in a decade
Ice sheets in tropical countries are smaller, so more vulnerable to climate change. Estimates suggest Papua’s glaciers have shrunk 85 per cent.
Aside from any environmental impact, their disappearance would also be a huge cultural loss for some indigenous Papuans who consider them sacred.




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