Venezuela may be the first nation in modern history to lose all its glaciers after climate scientists downgraded its last one to an ice field. Venezuela has lost at least six other glaciers in the last century. "There has not been much ice cover on the last Venezuelan glacier since the 2000s", Dr Caroline Clason, a glaciologist at Durham University, told Newsround. Luis Daniel Llambi, an ecologist at the university, told the Guardian that it had now shrunk to less than that. "Glaciers are ice that fills valleys – that’s the definition – and therefore I would say Venezuela has no glaciers whatsoever," he told the BBC.
