Peru’s melting glaciers bring new harvests – and fears for the future

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/oct/13/perus-melting-glaciers-bring-new-harvests-and-fears-for-the-future

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Sigma_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (1 reply)

These "water paradoxes" where melting glaciers provide short term increased water availability is really setting these impoverished locations up for catastrophic failure

DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
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benjhm@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 2y

Eventually they'll need bigger reservoirs to store rain between seasons, would take a lot of sugar-snap peas to pay for those. Another thought - are those peas coming to europe by plane ?