Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2024
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Rocks newly exposed after millennia beneath ice reveal that tropical glaciers have shrunk to their smallest extent in over 11,700 years. This discovery indicates the tropics have warmed beyond levels seen in the early Holocene epoch, according to researchers from Boston College, whose findings were published in Science.
Scientists have anticipated that glaciers would retreat as tropical te