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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Everest’s Highest Glacier Shrinks at Accelerated Pace

Birds fly as Mount Everest is seen from Namche Bajar, Solukhumbu district, Nepal, May 27, 2019. (AP Photo)

Ice on a glacier near the summit of Mount Everest, which took millennia to form, has shrunk dramatically in the last three decades due to climate change, a new study has shown.

The South Col formation may already have lost around 55 meters of thickness in the last 25 years, according to research led by the University of Maine and published recently in the journal Nature.

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