'State of the Amazon'

from worldpress.org........

'The section of the planet that is most vulnerable to human emissions are the Andes. Peru is home to 70 percent of the world's tropical ice glaciers, which are of critical importance to the drinking water, irrigation and electricity of the region. Scientists are reporting that the glaciers are disappearing faster than they previously anticipated. According to a World Bank report, Environmental and Climate Change in Latin America and the Caribbean-Policy Brief, in 2009, the Peruvian White Mountain Range has "already lost 26 percent of glacier mass, and this loss is accelerating.".........read it here