The Independent - London, October 18th, 2002
THE SNOWS of Mount Kilimanjaro, immortalised by an Ernest Hemingway short story, are melting so quickly they are expected to disappear within two decades.
Researchers have found that the icefields capping Africa's highest mountain shrank by 80 per cent in the last century, from 12 square kilometres in 1912 to just 2.6 square kilometres two years ago, bringing down the height of the mountain by several metres.
The ice covering the 5,892m (19,330ft) peak "will be gone by about 2020", said Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State University. The process has cut water volume in some Tanzani...
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