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Indonesia’s tropical glacier is rare, revered, and could be gone by next year – ABC News
Some call it the Eternity Glacier. It’s one of the last tropical glaciers in the world, and it gives vital clues about the Earth’s changing climate. But it’s dying….
What comes to mind when you think of Indonesian landscapes?
Lush rainforests, cascading fields of green, sprawling cities?
You probably don’t think of glaciers. Tropical glaciers.
Lorentz National Park, in the Papua province of New Guinea, is home to Indonesia’s last tropical glacier.
Some call it the Eternity Glacier, but it might not be there for much longer.
“Even some Indonesians don’t know that we have a glacier,” says Donaldi Permana, a senior researcher at Indonesia’s meteorology bureau,…
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