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AUDIO SLIDESHOW: Peru's Coming Calamity

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Glaciers provide most of Peru's drinking water, and they're disappearing. After returning from a trip to the Andes with photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, OnEarth articles editor George Black talks here about why the country is especially vulnerable and how it might adapt to water shortages and other effects of climate change. For more, see his Winter 2011 cover story "Life and Death in a Dry Land."