Climate change is transforming Papua’s snowy peaks, threatening the tropical island’s treasured “eternal snow” with disappearance forever.
The snow-covered peaks hold both scientific value and spiritual significance, making the changes more than an environmental concern. Their transformation is also affecting places of importance to the people connected to them.
The available information does not specify how quickly the snow is disappearing or when it may be gone. It indicates, however, that climate change is already altering Papua’s snowy mountain landscape.
The loss of the “eternal snow” would mark a major change for the island’s peaks and for the scientific and spiritual meaning they carry. What is known at this time is that Papua’s snow is under threat from a changing climate, with the possibility that it could disappear permanently.
