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Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa

Whether by human pollution or the Earth’s natural cycle, global warming is real, and it’s been happening longer than we thought. Scientific studies have determined that the snow and ice capping Africa’s highest mountain have been receding by 1% a year since 1912, and that ice stopped accumulating in 2000. Melting ice exposes the mount’s dark-colored soil, which absorbs more heat, causing glaciers to melt faster, and…..you get the picture. Kilimanjaro’s mountaintop ice fields have been an ultimate destination for climbers throughout the years, but, at the current rate of decline, no glaciers are expected to survive in 15 years.

Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa