Study: Andean Glacier Shrinking at Speed Not Seen Before — VOA Learning English
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A new study finds that the glaciers across the Andes in South America are shrinking at a speed not seen before in the history of human civilization.
This discovery surprised scientists. At first, they only planned to study the current conditions of glaciers and how they changed through history.
"We thought this result was decades away," said Andrew Gorin. As lead writer of the study, he first thought the results were an accident. But later he and his team confirmed the results with more samples.
Gorin said that the shrinking of glaciers is happening even faster than experts had thought.
He and a team of scientists carbon-dated bedrock that had been recently exposed by shrinking glaciers. They…
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