PERU'S PEAKS IN PERIL

As the ice atop the Cordillera Blanca, the largest glacier chain in the Tropics, continues to melt, Peru's "White Mountain Range" may soon be in for a name change.

Due to rising tempretures, the once snowy-white caps of the glacier chain are turning brown, underlining the growing effects of global warming on the worls's glaciers.

Scientist say this trend is also endangering future water supplies to the arid coast where most Peruvians live.

Melting is also visible in the other Andean countries- Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.