This short film by the AFP News Agency, published in May 2024, engages local scientists who are witnessing the acceleration of glacier mass loss during El Niño phenomenon.
Reducing cloud cover that supplies new snow while exposing surface ice to more sunlight, leading to melt downs.
“Until a few months ago, the Ritacuba Blanco glacier, one of Colombia's highest peaks, was covered in a blanket of snow.”
“But the El Niño phenomenon has opened up large cracks in it, a sign that the glacier is in trouble.”
Record temperatures cause cracks in Colombia's Ritacuba Blanco glacier | AFP
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