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This is an interview with Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, Postdoctoral Fellow at World Agroforestry Centre, about her research project in the Apurimac region of the Peruvian Andes.
- In your own words, what is this project about?
The objective of...
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El...
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Ice caps, very large sheets of ice, do not only exist at the earth’s poles. There are tropical ice caps inmountain ranges, too. The largest is the Quelccaya IceCap, on top of the Andes Mountains in Peru.
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