Laguna El Suero, a glacial lake in Venezuela’s Sierra Nevada National Park, on the slopes of moraines carved by the Humboldt glacier on Dec.13, 2011. Wilfredorrh
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Scientists have reclassified what was the last remaining glacier in Venezuela to an ice field, following significant shrinkage. The reclassification means that Venezuela is believed to be the first Andean country, and the first country globally, to lose all of its glaciers.
The Humboldt glacier, or La Corona, had…
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