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‘The Climate Is Changing’

An emaciated sheep walks across the bed of the lagoon.
An emaciated sheep walks across the bed of the lagoon. Photo: Guadalupe Pardo (AP)

The lagoon and others high in the Andes drying up “has to put [people living in the region] on notice that times are changing,” Wilson Suárez, professor of mountain hydrology and glaciology at Peru’s La Molina National Agrarian University, told the AP. “A drought is not easy to handle … the climate is changing.”