Chile’s melting glaciers, fast-disappearing gauge of climate change

In the lake San Rafael, about 100 icebergs float today, pieces broken off from the glacier that 150 years ago stretched out over two-thirds of the body of water now free of ice cover. The San Rafael glacier is one of 39 in the Northern Patagonian Ice Field. At the moment, Patagonia’s glaciers are retreating faster than anywhere else in the world due to climate change.

 

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