Mount Kilimanjaro could soon be bald

World-renowned ice caps may disappear by the 2020s

The famed snows of Kilimanjaro may soon appear only in old tourist photos and a short story by Ernest Hemingway if current rates of melting persist, a new study suggests.

ICY REMAINS Glaciers and other permanent ice masses atop Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro are shrinking fast and may be gone by 2022, a new research study suggests.