A glacier condemned to death by the greed of man
by Oscar Vilca
The Rinconada mining settlement is an example of how man's greed for gold destroys glaciers and contaminates large amounts of water in Lake Titicaca.
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- South America (318)
- Peru (28)
- Exact location (-69.4044 W, -14.6068 S)
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Nikon D3200
Taken on 12
July
2015
Submitted on 23 February 2017
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
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Oscar Vilca (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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