Tropical Glaciers Retreat Post-Ice Age
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•Retreat of tropical glaciers foreshadows changing climate's effect on the global ice
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Scientists find evidence that high-altitude tropical glaciers in the Andes Mountains are shrinking.
The tropical Andes are likely smaller than they've been at any time since the last ice age ended 11,700 years ago .
This makes them possible harbingers of what's to come for glaciers globally.
"We think these are the canary in the coal mine," says University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher Shaun Marcott .
Recent tropical Andean glacier retreat is unprecedented in the Holocene , scientists say.
Scientists say it's unprecedented for the Andean glaciers to retreat in recent years .
The study was published in the journal Science , 2024 ; 385 ( 6708 ): 517 .
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