Glaciers in Peru melt because of climate change

Peruvian officials on February 23 said the Huaytapallana mountain glacier in the country had melted and halved (5km2) in just 23 years.

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This information has made scientists more concerned about climate change threatening clean water sources.

According to Erasmo Meza, Junin region's natural resources and environment manager, recent scientific studies show that during the period of June 1983 to August 2006, this glacier was melted. and the cause is the warming of the Earth.

This melting phenomenon is posing major problems for the agriculture, health, clean water resources and disaster mitigation.

To prevent the glacier from continuing to melt, the Junin regional government is implementing a project to bring Huaytapallana mountain to the list of nature reserves.

The World Bank's 2009 report said that in the past 35 years, 22% of Peru's glaciers have melted, reducing 12% of clean water.

The report also warns that glaciers and snow-covered cliffs in the Andes now comprise more than 100 high mountain peaks of 5,000 meters or more, which may disappear in the next 20 years if countries do not have preventive measures. blocking the warming of the Earth.