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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: "Mountains of the Moon" Glaciers Melting in Africa


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Images of the glacier atop Mount Stanley—one of Africa's Ruwenzori Mountains—from 1952 (left) and 2008 (right) show a dramatic drop in ice coverage over the past 50 years.

According to the conservation group WWF, these famed Mountains of the Moon have lost more than 50 percent of their ice in that time, raising concerns for the area's unique wildlife.

Photograph on left courtesy Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique; photograph on right © Marc Languy/WWF