Venezuela, is a tropical country with a lot of varieties of landscapes. You can see from rainforests, baking savannah and even snow at "Sierra Nevada" mountain range.
Global warming affects all the world without distinction.
Image Source. This was the glaciar at 2011.
Venezuela, used to have 5 glaciars at 1991 which occupied nooks near the peaks of the mountain. Nowadays, only one remains.. at least a part of it.
Image Source. This was the glaciar at 2011.
The last glacier in Venezuela, the Humboldt glacier (located in Merida, at Humboldt Peak), is about to disappear.
“It is now reduced to an area of ten football pitches, a tenth of its size 30 years ago, it will be gone within a decade or maybe two,” The Economist reports. Source
Scientists have said how important is to study the glaciar in its last stages. But, the political and economic crisis in Venezuela makes hard for them to study the glaciar in this last stages. This is why nowadays the study of the glaciar is being done via remote sensing and satellites.
If they could study the glaciar here, it would help scientists to understand how weather influences the melting of tropical glaciers.
Sadly, this is a tragedy that should be highlighted as anothe consequence of the irresponsible behavior on contamination at the huge countries and economies.
The lost of Humboldt glaciar will afect the water cycle and water availability will also be strongly affected.