{"id":12106,"date":"2017-08-14T21:50:06","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T01:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=12106"},"modified":"2017-08-14T21:50:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T01:50:06","slug":"as-perus-glaciers-melt-its-problems-are-only-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/08\/as-perus-glaciers-melt-its-problems-are-only-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;As Peru\u2019s glaciers melt, its problems are only beginning&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting story from the <em>Washington Post<\/em> about the problems that farmers and city dwellers in Peru are experiencing from a loss of up to 90 percent of their glaciers due to recent warming.\u00a0 These Andean glaciers have provided summer meltwater needed for water supplies and irrigation for centuries, and now they are mostly gone.\u00a0 The story describes the impacts that Peruvians are already seeing from the change in the water cycle and the engineering approaches they are taking to dealing with the loss of water.\u00a0 You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/classic-apps\/as-perus-glaciers-melt-its-problems-are-mounting\/2017\/08\/02\/3343d136-6b19-11e7-abbc-a53480672286_story.html?utm_term=.0af415b8bd19&amp;wpisrc=nl_rainbow&amp;wpmm=1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12107\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12107\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/andes-glacier-botsford.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12107\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/andes-glacier-botsford-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/andes-glacier-botsford-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/andes-glacier-botsford-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/andes-glacier-botsford.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/08\/andes-glacier-botsford-207x138.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Andes mountain range and a cross headstone are seen from Cementerio Municipal De Huaraz in Huaraz, in the Ancash region of Peru, on July 13. (Jabin Botsford\/The Washington Post)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting story from the Washington Post about the problems that farmers and city dwellers in Peru are experiencing from a loss of up to 90 percent of their glaciers due to recent warming.\u00a0 These Andean glaciers have provided summer meltwater needed for water supplies and irrigation for centuries, and now they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":12107,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12108,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12106\/revisions\/12108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}