On thin ice: vanishing glacier ‘signals advance of global warming’
The Qori Kalis glacier is part of the Quelccaya Ice Cap, the largest body of ice in the tropics. According to glaciologist, Professor Lonnie Thompson, from Ohio State University in the US, it could be gone within five years.
The glacier is just one of many in Peru and other mountainous regions around the world that are rapidly melting away. Since 1974, Prof Thompson has been to the Quelccaya ice cap on at least 27 occasions to drill for core samples.
