It’s hard to imagine glaciers in the tropics, but researchers have been looking at why these high-altitude glaciers - like those closer to the poles - are retreating.
A French/US research team, investigating a Bolivian glacier, has found its retreat over the past 10,000 years is linked to a 3°C rise in air temperature and to the warming of the tropical Pacific Ocean.
This work confirms the exceptional nature of the rapid melting observed since the industrial revolution.
Read more at Nature