{"id":31509,"date":"2025-03-28T10:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T05:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31509"},"modified":"2025-04-16T12:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T07:01:53","slug":"mount-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mount-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mount Kenya Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Climate change is rapidly accelerating the melting of glaciers on Mount Kenya, Africa\u2019s second-highest mountain after Kilimanjaro.<\/p>\n<h2>Why in the News?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Lewis Glacier<\/strong>, once a prominent ice mass, has now shrunk significantly, with studies predicting <strong>Mount Kenya could become entirely ice-free by 2030<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>2011 study<\/strong> from Austria\u2019s University of Innsbruck reported that <strong>Lewis Glacier lost 90% of its volume between 1934 and 2010<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A <strong>2023 satellite study<\/strong> found that <strong>only 4.2% of the ice<\/strong> observed in 1900 remains today.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About Mount Kenya<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location:<\/strong> Central Kenya, just <strong>south of the Equator<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elevation:5,199 meters (17,058 feet)<\/strong> at its highest peak (<strong>Batian<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li><strong>UNESCO World Heritage Site:<\/strong> Designated in <strong>1997<\/strong> for its ecological and cultural significance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geological Origin:<\/strong> A <strong>long-extinct stratovolcano<\/strong>, heavily eroded over time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Glaciers:<\/strong> Home to <strong>Lewis Glacier and Tyndall Glacier<\/strong>, among the last remaining tropical glaciers in Africa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Mount Kenya FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1. <\/strong>Where is Mount Kenya located?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong> Mount Kenya is located in central Kenya, Africa, and is the second-highest mountain in Africa after Mount Kilimanjaro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2. <\/strong>What is the significance of Mount Kenya in terms of biodiversity?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong> Mount Kenya is home to unique alpine flora and fauna, and it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its rich biodiversity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3.<\/strong> What type of volcano is Mount Kenya?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong> Mount Kenya is an extinct stratovolcano that last erupted over 3 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q4. <\/strong>What is the highest peak of Mount Kenya?<br \/>\n<strong>Ans.<\/strong> The highest peak is Batian (5,199 meters), followed by Nelion (5,188 meters) and Point Lenana (4,985 meters).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/why-activists-are-worried-about-section-443-of-new-data-protection-law-9908168\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Kenya is located in central Kenya, Africa, and is the second-highest mountain in Africa after Mount Kilimanjaro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}