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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Neelima Vallangi

Venezuela loses its last glacier as it shrinks down to an ice field

Aerial view of the Humboldt glacier, in Merida, Venezuela
The Humboldt glacier in Venezuela in 2019. The country is thought to be the first to lose all its glaciers. Photograph: Jose Manuel Romero/AP

Venezuela has lost its last remaining glacier after it shrank so much that scientists reclassified it as an ice field.

It is thought Venezuela is the first country to have lost all its glaciers in modern times.

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