Another victim of Global warming: Quilca glacier disappears
For the second time in as many months, the affects of global warming on Peru’s rare tropical glaciers is made painfully evident.
Peru’s National Institute for Natural Resources (INRENA) has reported that the Quilca glacier in Puno, 5250 m.a.s.l., has now completely vanished. This is an ominous warming for a country where the vast majority of the population lives on a desert coast who’s rivers are fed by melt waters from similar glaciers.
January 23, 2009 | News





