
Ice calves off from the Perito Moreno glacier into the Lago Argentino (Argentine Lake), in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, near the city of El Calafate in the Patagonian province of Santa Cruz, Argentina April 21, 2025, in this screengrab from a video. — Reuters
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A dramatic spectacle stood on the Pureo Morino Glacier in Argentina when it issued a great block of ice, which is 70 meters long, which is in the dynamic acrylic water.
Visitors arrived on the site, waiting eagerly to see the platform for the next heart stopping moment, the process where large -scale ice pieces break the glacier.
However, local guides and glaciers are worried about the growing size of these snow.
Once the flexible giant, Pero Morino, has begun to show the backdrop, and the alarm has picked up alarms in the background of the global glacier melting global glaciers.
This change has indicated a significant change for the glacier, which denied ordinary trends, which experts and spectators are worried about its future during the hot temperature period.
“Ice mutual events of this size have not been too common in the Perio Morino Glacier in the last 20 years,” said Pablo Quinter, a government tourist at Las Glacier National Park, a 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 flows down the Andin peaks in the waters of the Argentine lake, was less and more stable for decades, some years moving 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 the glacier could recover as he did before, but for the moment it was losing one to two meters of water equal to one year, which, if not changed, could cause a situation where the loss increases.
A 2024 report, which is jointly written by Raiz and presented to Argentina’s Congress, has shown that when the Pero Morino’s mass has been stable for half a century, the fastest and long -term losses have been widely seen in the 47 years after 2015.
According to a March UNESCO report, glaciers around the world are disappearing faster than ever, in the past three years, according to a UNESCO report, the biggest snow loss has been seen in the last three years.
‘You can’t catch her unborn’
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.”