The treasured 'eternal snow' on this tropical island is about to disappear forever
These are expected to entirely disappear in a year or two.Glacier cover around the peak has shrunk from nearly 1,900 hectares (4,700 acres) in the 19th Century to about 16 hectares (40 acres) today. Papua is home to the "last remaining tropical ice" between the Andes and Himalayas.Ice cores taken from the slopes of Puncak Jaya preserve a record of climate history. To the Amungme people, the range is known as Nemangkawi, or the "White Arrow"."Parents and grandparents prayed their children would have hearts like the White Arrow, never straying from the proper path," says Elfrida Natkime, a young Amungme woman.
- ▪These are expected to entirely disappear in a year or two.Glacier cover around the peak has shrunk from nearly 1,900 hectares (4,700 acres) in the 19th Century to about 16 hectares (40 acres) today.
- ▪Papua is home to the "last remaining tropical ice" between the Andes and Himalayas.Ice cores taken from the slopes of Puncak Jaya preserve a record of climate history.
- ▪To the Amungme people, the range is known as Nemangkawi, or the "White Arrow"."Parents and grandparents prayed their children would have hearts like the White Arrow, never straying from the proper path," says Elfrida Natkime, a young Amungm
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The treasured 'eternal snow' on this tropical island is about to disappear foreverImage source, Project Pressure/Klaus TymannImage caption, Only small patches of snow remain on Papua's Sudirman RangeByAbraham UtamaBBC IndonesiaPublished2 minutes agoThe mountains of Papua are not far from the equator, but they've been topped with "eternal snow" for centuries.The peaks in this Indonesian region on the world's second-largest island, just north of Australia, have offered scientists countless insights into the Earth's climate history.They're also the epicentre of the spiritual universe for many Papuans - a Mecca or a Vatican, as one activist puts it.But now, nearly all the snow is gone.A century ago, the 300km (190-mile) stretch of the Sudirman Range had snow and permanent ice on all four of…
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