Venezuela Becomes First Country to lose All Glaciers

Current Context : Venezuela has likely to become the first nation to lose all its glaciers and marking prominent effect of environment and highlighting the severity of the climate crisis.

• The nation has likely become the first in modern history to lose all its glaciers.

ABOUT GLACIERS:  

• Glaciers are essentially large and thick masses of ice that are formed on land due to the accumulation of snow over centuries.
• They usually exist and form in areas where mean annual temperatures reach near the freezing point.