links for 2009-11-13

• Snow Cap Disappearing From Mount Kilimanjaro – ABC News
  Some 85 percent of the ice that made up the mountaintop glaciers in 1912 was gone by 2007, researchers led by paleoclimatologist Lonnie Thompson of Ohio State University report in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

  And more than a quarter of the ice present in 2000 was gone by 2007.

  (tags: climate-change climate environment africa global-warming)