Tatuy The environmental organization has stated that, based on data from the School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Los Andes, in the last 30 years the area of glaciers Venezuelans went from 136.8 hectares to 43.1 hectares. The president of the Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), Angel Viloria, also said that glaciers in Venezuela were “a melting of 70% in the last 30 years.” These data have led scientists to affirm that, to continue to increase greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation of forests, “the snow has a life expectancy of 12 to 13 years in Venezuela. The data was released by the 16 Venezuelan scientists who participated recently in the country’s first expedition to Antarctica, with the aim of studying the process of global warming. According to scientists, the most affected by this process is the Pico Bolivar, the highest in the country with 4980 meters above sea level, located in the Venezuelan Andes, in the state of Mirada, about 650 kilometers southwest of the capital Caracas . Viloria said that “ultimately, the flow of the lakes and rivers of glacial Mirada will decrease,” and said that while they know what is the solution of the problem, reiterated that its cause is the burning of hydrocarbons .
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