Massive ice chunk break offs at Argentina’s Perito Moreno glacier

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Argentina: A deep cracking sound from the inside of the ice indicates a dramatic decline. After seconds, a block of ice falls about 70 70 meters (230 feet) tall-20-storey building size-Perio falls into the acne water below the face of the Morino Glacier.

This view has attracted visitors to Argentina’s most famous glacier for years. Standing on the ice platform, they wait for the next crack to distribute the cool pitgonne air.

But recently the size of the ice pieces is breaking – a process called “calf” – has begun to endanger local guides and glaciers, who were already upset over a long retreat by Pero Morino, which has maintained this trend in recent decades, even after the world has maintained a warm world.

“Ice mutual events of this size have not been very common in the Perito Morino Glacier,” said Pablo Quintero, a government tourist leader at Las Glacier National Park in the southern province of Santa Cruz.

“It is only in the last four to six years that we have begun to see Iceberg,” he told Reuters during a visit in April.

The glacier’s face, which goes down the Andin peaks in the waters of the Argentine lake, was less or less stable for decades, moving for a few years and others were retreating. But in the last five years, there has been a strong retreat.

“It has been in the same position for less than 80 years,” said Lucas Rose, a glycologist of Argentina with the State Science Body Conact. And that’s unusual. “

“However, since 2020, Pero Morino has begun to see signs of retreat in some parts of the glacier’s face.”

He said that the glacier could recover as well as he did before, but for the moment it was losing one to two meters of water every year, which is not reversed, can cause a situation where the loss increases.

A state -backed 2024 report, which was jointly written by Raiz and presented to Argentina’s Congress, has shown that when the mass of Pero Morino has been stable for half a century, the average loss has been widely seen in 47 years in 47 years in 2015.

According to a UNESCO report in March, glaciers around the world are disappearing faster than ever, with the largest snow loss on record in the last three years.

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Raiz said his research team used to monitor the glacier, which has increased air temperature in an area of ​​0.06 degrees Celsius per decade and decreases rainfall, which means low accumulation of snow and ice.

“The point with Pero Morino is that it took some time to feel the effects of climate change, so, so to talk,” Royes said. However, now, the accumulation of snow in the upper part of the glacier was melting down and screaming.

“The changes we see today clearly show that this balance of forces is disrupted, and today the glacier is losing both in the thickness and the area.”

For now, the glacier is an amazing encouragement for travelers, who rode the boats to see the calves and the huge iceberg floating around the lake nearby.

“It’s crazy. I’ve seen the most incredible thing,” Brazilian tourist Jiana Machado said on a boat’s deck, which has to be cautious about suddenly falling snow.

“Even in the photo, you can’t catch her a lot, and it’s perfect. It’s amazing. I think everyone should come here at least once in her life.”