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Archive Home > 2011 > January > 19 > Peru on verge of disaster as glacial melting speeds

Peru on verge of disaster as glacial melting speeds

By Heather Somerville / The Bulletin
January 19, 2011

HUARAZ, Peru — Glacier melt hasn’t caused a national crisis in Peru, yet. But high in the Andes, rising temperatures and changes in water supply over the past 40 years have decimated crops, killed fish stocks and forced villages to question how they will survive for another....

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