Kilimanjaro to be snow free within 20 years

A report published earlier this week predicts that the summit of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania will be ice free by 2033 and possibly as early as 2022.

The highest mountain in Africa inspired Ernest Hemmingway to write the short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, first published in 1936. The snow-capped volcano now attracts around 40,000 visitors per year.





Kilimanjaro:© enote/Shutterstock used in the new Times Concise Atlas of the World.

A team of scientists from Ohio State University believe that warmer global temperatures have had a huge impact on the increase in glacier melting rates at Kilimanjaro and around the world.

See the original article published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and a report at TimesOnline.