Pastoruri Glacier Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:02:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Climate Change Last Chance to See… Pastoruri Glacier https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-last-chance-see-pastoruri-glacier-20140127/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-last-chance-see-pastoruri-glacier-20140127/#respond Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:02:57 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=45470 Seasonal things come and go, so winter’s ski weather gives way to summer’s beach weather. We store our seasonal stuff because we know that we’ll get to go skiing again next winter. Thanks to climate change, this could be one of the last chances to see one of the few remaining tropical glaciers in the […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/climate-change-last-chance-see-pastoruri-glacier-20140127/feed/ 0 45470 Twisted Climate Change Eco-Tourism Forms Around Disappearing Peruvian Glaciers https://www.greenoptimistic.com/twisted-climate-change-eco-tourism-disappearing-peruvian-glaciers-20131126/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/twisted-climate-change-eco-tourism-disappearing-peruvian-glaciers-20131126/#respond Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:39:01 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=43947 Given that Perú is home to more tropical glaciers than anywhere else in the world, you might think that their melting away due to climate change would be bad for business. True, the number of eco-tourists has dropped in recent years. Back in the 1990s, Pastoruri Glacier, for example, used to draw about 100,000 visitors […]

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