Venezuela Loses Its Last Glacier

Recently, Venezuela became the first country in modern history to lose all its glaciers, following the reclassification of the Humboldt glacier as an ice field.

• Scientists reclassified Venezuela’s Humboldt glacier as an ice field earlier this month, marking the country’s loss of all its glaciers.
• Venezuela originally had six glaciers in the Andes mountains at approximately 5,000 meters above sea level, but by 2011, only the Humboldt glacier remained.
• The Humboldt glacier, expected to last another decade, has melted faster than anticipated, shrinking to less than 2 hectares.
• Global warming, primarily driven by greenhouse gas emissions from human ac
• Since the Industrial Revolution, increased emissions ....