These Glacier Guardians Are Women
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Nestled at the foot of the largest tropical glacier in the world, the high-mountain community of Phinaya in the Peruvian Andes depends on the glacier’s flow for its residents’ livelihoods. The water from that glacier, the Quelccaya ice cap, sustains the alpaca herders, their families and the herds. But in the last 40 years, the Quelccaya ice cap has lost 37 percent of its total area. A study suggests that the glacier will reach a state of irreversible decline by the mid-2050s.
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