Newsletter Andean glaciers are melting, reshaping centuries-old Indigenous rituals The Snow Star Festival, an annual religious celebration, has been an integral part of Andean tradition and beliefs. But climate change and COVID-19 are threatening that.
Impacts www.nytimes.com Witnessing Peru’s enduring, if altered, snow star festival Rising temperatures and melting glaciers have changed key aspects of the age-old Peruvian festival of Qoyllur Rit’i. Still, the celebrations persist.
Op-ed: “I’m sorry, I can’t hear you” — disabling environments in Cancer Alley and the Ohio River Valley