Sunrise, sunset, day length and solar time for Honolulu. 1  Sunrise: 06:09AM. 2  Sunset: 06:52PM. 3  Day length: 12h 43m.  Solar noon: 12: 1 31PM. The current local time in Honolulu is 31 minutes ahead of apparent solar time.
The glaciers of the Andes Mountains have retreated at an unprecedented rate in the past three decades, with more ice lost than at any other time in the last 400 years.
The Andes Mountains are locaed in South America. The Andes formed during the Cretaceous period (about 138 million to about 65 million years ago) when the Pacific crustal plate â¦ began to slowly slide beneath the South American plate, uplifting and folding the sedimentary rocks that comprise the Andes (see Plate Tectonics).