Researchers with NASA's Earth Observatory, have found that between 1912 and 2011, the mass of ice on the summit of the 19,341ft dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania decreased by more than 85 per cent.
Kimberly Casey, a glaciologist based at the US space agency's Goddard Space Flight Centre, who visited the mountain earlier this year, also noticed Kilimanjaro's north ice field had separated, the 'Daily Mail' reported.
The glacier had been developing a hole since the 70s, but this is the first year in which it had been seen to divide in two.
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