World Bank will support the research of tropical glaciers

The World Bank through its World Environment Funds will support Bolivia, Peru, Colombia and Ecuador against the global warming effects on their tropical glaciers, granting US$7.49 million for research by installing meteorology centers around the glaciers in order to measure the reduction in their size. Seventy percent of the tropical glaciers are located in the Peruvian Andean Mountains where the thaw has reduced them by 20% in the last 25 years.