A looming climate disaster threatens the lives of 6,000 Peruvians ...Middle East

Lake Palcacocha in 1939 (Innsbruck University Institute of Geograph/)For the past 25 years, Lake Palcacocha, perched above the Peruvian city of Huaraz high in the Andes, has been filling up with water. It sits just at the foot of a glacier, and as the glacier has retreated, the lake has flooded to six times its 1995 levels. It now covers an area the size of about 200 football fields and is nearly 300 feet deep in some places.The lake is held back by a rim of glacial debris, reinforced by manmade structures. “You’ve got a very precarious situation,” says Gerard Roe, a glaciologist at the University of Washington. “Were an avalanche or rockslide to land in this lake, it would create a tsunami-

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