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Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia is vanishing due to global warming

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Chacaltaya glacier in Bolivia is vanishing due to global warming

When the Chacaltaya glacier vanished six years sooner than scientists predicted, a victim of global warming, so, too, did the world’s highest ski run. The loss of the 18,000-year-old glacier this year that loomed above Bolivia’s Altiplano threatens to diminish water supplies to 2 million people clustered around La Paz, according to the World Bank.

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