But the icecap of the Cordillera Blanca, long a supply of water for the Chavimochic irrigation project, has shrunk by 40 percent since 1970 and is retreating at an ever-faster rate. It is currently receding by about 30 feet a year, scientists say.
Like all the dailies—good or bad, lefty or wingnutty—it's in the process of dying, and in fact the paper version of this article isn't nearly as beautiful as the on-line photos. Can't help but think we'll be worse off without 'em though.
Some stunning pics in the on-line version of the article. Yes NYT normalizes nazis, but what other paper has the resources to do stories like this one?<img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/10/17/world/americas/Peru-slide-YQT1/Peru-slide-YQT1-superJumbo.jpg"/>
A photo of the glacier 30 years before. <img src="https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/11/26/world/americas/SUB-26PERU4/Peru-slide-VM3O-superJumbo.jpg"/>
Um…that seems like a lot. Fuck.
Like all the dailies—good or bad, lefty or wingnutty—it's in the process of dying, and in fact the paper version of this article isn't nearly as beautiful as the on-line photos. Can't help but think we'll be worse off without 'em though.
So true!