Snows Gone on Kilimanjaro by 2022

The mountain, they say, has lost 85 percent of its glacial ice since 1912. What’s more, 26 percent of the ice that remained in 2000 was gone by 2007, the last time Kilimanjaro’s ice was precisely mapped.

SOURCE: “Kilimanjaro’s Snows Gone by 2022?” http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091102-kilimanjaro-glaciers-disappearing-ice-cap-snows.html, John Roach, National Geographic News, November 2, 2009

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