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Venezuela First Country in World to Lose All Glaciers

The Andean nation’s last glacier, on the 4,925-meter Pico Humboldt, is now considered extinct.

A hiker crossing the remnants of the Humboldt glacier in Venezuela
Pico Humboldt's last glacier, La Corona, in 2011. The glacier is now extinct. CREDIT: Wildfredor/Creative Commons
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