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Lessons from the Incas: how llamas, terraces and trees could help the Andes survive climate change

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par Alex Chepstow-Lusty, Research Associate, Geography, University of Sussex

Many tropical glaciers in the Andes are expected to disappear in the next few decades. Their meltwater sustains millions of people, feeding crops in the dry season, supplying Peru’s capital Lima and other big cities, and even boosting the Amazon river. As glaciers vanish, floods and droughts are becoming more extreme.

But my new research with colleagues suggests…

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