🏔️ Nasa Satellite images show the 35-year-long retreat of an ice cap in the Peruvian Andes. The Quelccaya Ice Cap is the second-largest glaciated area in the tropics. Between 1988 and 2023 (when these images were taken), its total ice area has gone from 58 square kilometers (22 square miles) to just over 40 square kilometers (15 square miles). According to NASA, "As the planet’s tropical glaciers are being lost, so are the temperature and climate records long preserved in their ice." #Ice #IceM