Researchers racing to document Oceania’s last tropical glaciers found the remaining ‘eternal snow’ in Indonesia’s West Papua region has lost almost all its iceMapping the last glaciers in Oceania – in picturesAn expedition to document the end days of the last tropical glaciers in Oceania has revealed sombre footage of ‘planetary destruction on fast-forward’.The once-mighty ice sheets on Puncak Jaya, a mountain surrounded by dense rainforests in West Papua, Indonesia, have survived beyond projections they would disappear by 2026 but have shrunk to a fraction of their original size. Continue reading…