AP team follows scientists trekking to Venezuela’s last glacier

Scientists gather at their camp late afternoon at the “El Suero” lagoon on the first day of their mission to the Humboldt glacier, in Merida, Venezuela, May 23, 2019. Temperatures are warming faster at the Earth’s higher elevations, and scientists predict that the glacier – an ice sheet in the Andes Mountains – could be gone within two decades.

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Ap 19262628753963 Hm Abd — Scientist Eloy Torres shows a plant sample to a colleague during a mission to study how temperatures and plant life are changing in the Andean ecosystem known as the paramos – a mist-covered mountain grassland that lies between the top of the treeline and the bottom of the Humboldt glacier, in Merida, Venezuela, Feb. 19, 2019.

AP Photo / Rodrigo Abd

Video journalist Federica Narancio, photographer Rodrigo Abd, science writer Christina Larson, and freelance video journalists José Manuel Romero and Erika Rodríguez, for the second installment in the “What Can Be Saved?” series. The team spent months overcoming numerous logistical hurdles, becoming the sole news outlet to visually capture Venezuelan scientists on their trip to study the country’s last glacier and the surrounding alpine ecosystem.
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Federica Working In Merida Venezuela Hm — Video journalist Federica Narancio records scientist Alejandra Melfo as she makes notes in Merida, Venezuela, during a study of the Andean ecosystem, February 2019.

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