Bolivians fight over vanishing glacier's future
In the Andean mountains of Bolivia’s high western plains, where snow lies powdered over dark rocks that rise into a hard gray sky, scientists and climbers are fighting for the future of a dying glacier that has become a controversial lure for tourists. The Charquini glacier, about 20km from the highland administrative capital La Paz, sits in the Cordillera Real, a mountain range that divides the Amazon lowlands from the high Andean plateau. It has been retreating quickly, losing about 1.5m of thickness each year, the Universidad Mayor de San Andres (UMSA) and the French Research Institute fo...
Source: taipeitimes.com
