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From the Alps to the Andes: How climate change in mountain regions is putting billions at risk

Climate change is hitting mountain regions around the world “more intensely” than lowland areas, putting billions of people at risk. A major analysis from the University of Portsmouth has revealed how ...
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Study of glaciers in the Andes sheds light on future climate impact

Andean glaciers advanced during an acute period of climate change at the end of the last Ice Age, new research has found. An international team of glaciologists, led by Aberystwyth University, made ...
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Endangered Andean cat is imperiled by climate change and its solutions

The Andean cat is an endangered and elusive wildcat species found in the high Andes Mountain regions of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. The species is exceedingly rare across its entire range and ...
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Geographer Jeff Bury studies human impacts of climate change in central Andes

Geographer Jeff Bury is studying the impacts of climate change in Peru. Photo by Jeff Bury. For residents of Peru’s remote villages high in the Andes mountains, climate change is right outside the ...
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The GPM-DPR Blind Zone Effect on Satellite-Based Radar Estimation of Precipitation over the Andes from a Ground-Based Ka-band Profiler Perspective

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology, Vol. 61, No. 4 (April 2022), pp. 441-456 (16 pages) A vertically pointing Ka-band radar (Metek MIRA-35C) installed at the Instituto Geofisico del Perú, ...