Title: Mt. Kilimanjaro's Ice Cap is Vanishing
Time/date: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:12:37 pm

Uh oh. Mt. Kilimanjaro Ice Cap Continues Rapid Retreat, Study Says.

The ice atop Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has continued to retreat rapidly, declining 26 percent since 2000, scientists say in a new report.

Yet the authors of the study, to be published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reached no consensus on whether the melting could be attributed mainly to humanity’s role in warming the global climate.

Eighty-five percent of the ice cover that was present in 1912 has vanished, the scientists said.