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The Snows of Kilimanjaro: For How Much Longer?

Shrinking rapidly ... and likely to be lost

The ice fields atop Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro glow golden in the last of the afternoon sun. Credit and Larger Version

November 2, 2009

The iconic snows of Kilimanjaro still exist--but for how long?
The remaining ice fields atop famed Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania could be gone within two decades and perhaps even sooner, based on the latest survey of the ice fields remaining on the mountain.

These predictions, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), are among the latest dramatic physical evidence of global climate change.