It is not something that most people have very much in mind, but we are among the last generations that will have the rare privilege of seeing the glaciers in the Andes. The most recent estimates suggest that important Andean glaciers could disappear or recede significantly over the course of the next century; some could lose between 78 and 97 percent of volume in the next 80 … [Read more...] about The Farewell of the Glaciers: How Global Warming is Transforming Disaster Risk in the Peruvian Andes