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Jamapa Glacier depletion and disappearance in Mexico
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Jamapa Glacier depletion and disappearance in Mexico
The Jamapa Glacier on Mexico’s Pico de Orizaba is experiencing rapid depletion and is entering a terminal stage of irreversible disappearance. Research from the Universidad Veracruzana Recent data indicates that between 2015 and 2025, the glacier lost an average thickness of three meters, with some areas losing up to seven meters, totaling glacier’s front has retreated approximately 1.4 million cubic 200 meters of ice. As the glacier continues to thin in less than a decade. Between 2019 and 2024, its surface area shrinks, experts shrank from 0.46 to 0.37 square kilometers, representing a reduction of nearly 20 percent in five years. Experts from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) warn that due to thinning and fragmentation, the ice body may fragment split into several smaller pieces fragments within the next two years. This retreat is attributed to a combination of driven by climate change, volcanic activity, and severe deforestation within the Pico de Orizaba National Park. The loss of the glacier presents poses a significant critical threat to water security in the Veracruz region. Because As the glacier feeds the Jamapa River, its disappearance could impact impacts river flow, irrigation, and hydroelectricity, potentially affecting the water supply for hundreds of thousands to over one million people, affecting hydroelectricity, agriculture, livestock, people. In response to this environmental crisis, a group of mountaineers and downstream ecosystems. journalists has launched an initiative titled ‘Cartas al glaciar Jamapa, el último de México’ (Letters to the Jamapa Glacier, the last in Mexico). Led by journalist Rodrigo Soberanes and the media outlet La Marea, the project involves carrying a mailbox up the mountain to collect letters, audio messages, and drawings from climbers and local community members. The collected messages are intended to reflect on the glacier and the surrounding ecosystems as the ice disappears.
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