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#NewWorldReport: Climate change and the Andean glaciers of Peru. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

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#NewWorldReport: Climate change and the Andean glaciers of Peru. Latin American Research Professor Evan Ellis, U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute. @revanellis #NewWorldReportEllis

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/glacial-lake-floods-threaten-communities-asia-south-america-2023-02-07/



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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Bachelor.

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The New World Report with Professor Evan Ellis of the US Army War College Strategic Studies

0:46.0

Institute, Latin American Research Professor, climate change and the New World, especially

0:52.9

we go to a report on melting glaciers. This is Reuters. Melting mountain glaciers pose a

0:58.7

growing flood risk to 15 million people around the world. Run off from melting glaciers,

1:04.8

pools and shallow lakes held back by rocks and debris. The risk comes when a lake over

1:09.8

fills. We go to Latin America because we're looking at the risk in Peru. We're looking

1:16.4

at the risk in Chile. This report says scientists have assessed the first time how many people

1:22.7

globally are at risk. Dangerous highest they report in a study published in nature communications.

1:29.3

The quote, our work does not just focus on the size of our number of glacier lakes. No

1:35.2

disaster is natural. It is the presence of people, especially vulnerable people in the

1:40.1

landscape that causes a disaster. Collectively, the world's glaciers lost about 332 gigatons

1:48.1

of ice between 2006 and 2016. Since 1990, the number and volume of glacier lakes worldwide

1:56.8

have each increased by about 50 percent. Glacial lakes, we're not talking about the glaciers

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