On The Rocks

Goodbye to all that.

A fabled tropical ice field in Africa could disappear in two decades because of climate change, a study says.

The finding comes from the first survey in a decade of glaciers in the Rwenzori Mountains, East Africa, often referred to as the "Mountains of the Moon".

A British-Ugandan team says an increase in air temperature over the last four decades has contributed to a substantial reduction in glacial cover.