Scientists say the Chacaltaya Glacier in Bolivia is likely to have melted by 2010. Over 80 percent of Chacaltaya's glacier which, was as old as 18,000 years melted between 1987 and 2007 and in early 2009 it finally disappeared.
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Scientists say the Chacaltaya Glacier in Bolivia is likely to have melted by 2010. Over 80 percent of Chacaltaya's glacier which, was as old as 18,000 years melted between 1987 and 2007 and in early 2009 it finally disappeared.
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