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On average, how much have the glaciers on Mount Kenya receded?

Mount Kenya’s glaciers lost more than half of their 2016 extent by 2021/2022. Now the smallest amount of glacier area in East Africa, the extent has shrunk from 0.15 km2 to 0.069 km2. 

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