From bbc.co.uk

Scientists in Chile are investigating the sudden disappearance of a glacial lake in the south of the country.

But last month they found a huge dry crater and several stranded chunks of ice that used to float on the water.В  One theory is that an earthquake opened up a fissure in the ground, allowing the lake’s water to drain through.

“In March we patrolled the area and everything was normal,” Juan Jose Romero from Chile’s National Forestry Corporation, Conaf, said.В  “We went again in May and to our surprise we found that the lake had completely disappeared. All that was left were chunks of ice and an enormous fissure.”

A glacier specialist, Andres Rivera, told Chilean newspaper La Tercera that the lake’s disappearance seemed to be part of the continual reforming of the landscape.

www.CBC.ca wrote an article about the rapidly disappearing Peruvian glacier known as the

The world’s largest tropical glacier was a hot topic this past Thursday at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Glaciologist Lonnie Thompson, and a team of Ohio state scientists, produced the stunning news that Quelccaya and similar formations are melting at a rate of some 60 metres per year. While polar ice caps have commanded attention in the discussion of global warming to date, these tropical caps are crucial to the well-being of ecosystems relying on an influx of mountain stream fresh water.