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Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007, researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of...

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By Lonnie G. Thompson, The Ohio State University A remnant of a Kilimanjaro ice field that had been quite extensive as recently as 1962. Climate change could cause the legendary snow and ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro to disappear within the...

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...will be gone within the next two decades. "In a very real sense, these glaciers are being decapitated from the surface down," said Lonnie Thompson, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University. Thompson is co-author of a study on...

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...recent decades. "This is the first time researchers have calculated the volume of ice lost from the mountain's ice fields," Lonnie Thompson, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, says in the study published in the journal...

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...by nearly 85% between 1912 and 2007. More than a quarter of the ice present in 2000 was now gone. The team, led by Professor Lonnie Thompson, from Ohio State University in the US, pointed out that the snows had survived intact for...

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...apace on the African peak: More than a quarter of the ice cover present in the year 2000 had disappeared by late 2007, says Lonnie Thompson, a glaciologist at Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center in Columbus. He and his...

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...is the first time researchers have calculated the volume of ice lost from the mountain's ice fields,'' said study co-author Lonnie Thompson, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University, "If you look at the percentage of volume...

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...permanent ice masses atop Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro are shrinking fast and may be gone by 2022, a new research study suggests. Thompson et al./PNAS 2009 The famed snows of Kilimanjaro may soon appear only in old tourist photos and a...

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...completely within two decades or even earlier according to one of the world's leading glaciologists. A team led by Professor Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University said that the latest assessment of Kilimanjaro's famous ice cap has...

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...remnants of ice spires that were once full glaciers in the crater of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. (Credit: Photo by Lonnie Thompson, Ohio State University) Related Stories Snows Of Kilimanjaro Disappearing, Glacial Ice Loss...

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