Ice Cap in Indonesia (IMAGE)

Ohio State University

Ice Cap in Indonesia

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Glaciologists who drilled through an ice cap perched precariously on the edge of a 16,000-foot-high Indonesian mountain ridge say that the ice field could vanish within in the next few years, another victim of global climate change.

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Photo courtesy of Paolo Gabrielli, Ohio State University.

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