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Venezuela’s Humboldt glacier shrink
May 19 , 2024
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- Venezuela is thought to be the first nation in modern times to have completely lost all of its glaciers.
- The South American nation's only remaining glacier is the Humboldt, or La Corona, in the Andes.
- It had become "too small to be classed as a glacier".
- Hence, the glacier has been reclassified as an ice field.
- The country had been home to 6 glaciers in the Sierra Nevada de Mérida Mountain range.
- Five of the glaciers had disappeared by 2011, leaving just Humboldt.
- According to scientists, Indonesia, Mexico, and Slovenia are next in line to become glacier-free.
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