Icy reception for plan to 'save' Venezuela's last glacier

Caracas (AFP) March 5, 2024

A small patch of ice among bare rock is all that remains of Venezuela's last glacier, which the government hopes to restore to its former glory using a geothermal blanket. Experts say that would be too little too late. While glacier melt is a global phenomenon blamed on climate change, Venezuela is the first country in the Andes mountain range - which stretches all the way to Chile in t