Resumen de El Niño speeds up Andes glacier melt
Tropical glaciers in the Andes are melting at their fastest rate for at least 12 years, thanks to the record-breaking El Nino that is warming up the area, according to data analyzed for New Scientist. This is compounding the already high melting rates caused by global warming that will consign many glaciers to history within decades. "The lower-level glaciers in the Andes, below 5,500 meters, are really endangered now and probably only have a couple of decades left," says Michael Zemp, director of the World Glacier Monitoring Service in Zurich, Switzerland. The organization recently found that the first 10 years of the 21st century saw the greatest decadal loss of glacier ice ever measured, with melting rates two to three times as high as in the 20th century.
