In Indonesia, two of the world's few tropical glaciers are melting, with their ice under threat to vanish by 2026 or sooner as the El Nino weather pattern lengthens the dry season in the southeast Asian nation, its geophysics agency have said.
Indonesia, home to a third of the world's area covered by rainforests, expects the dry season could run until October as El Nino increases the risk of forest fires and threatens supplies of clean water.
While the agency has warned that the Pacific weather phenomenon could make this year's dry season the most severe since 2019, one of its climate researchers said Wednesday it could also imperil Indonesia's 12,000-year-old tropical glaciers.