Climate change in Peru ruining farm crops, sickening animals

"What is new, however, is the abruptness, frequency and ferocity of the hail. "It comes with virtually no warning. And not just at certain times of the year, like when I was a boy, but year round," says 48-year-old Sergio Mamani, wrapped in a brown poncho and sporting the multi-coloured pointy hat typical of his people. "You have a flourishing crop and then suddenly the hail destroys the leaves. You lose everything."

It is not just the hail that has changed. There is less rain so the earth is drier and browner. Days are warmer and nights colder, to the extent that herds of alpacas, indigenous domesticated animals which resemble big sheep with long necks, are freezing to death. The alpacas are also getting sicker because the occasional warmer temperatures bring disease-carrying insects which were once confined to the valleys. "It's not the way it was," says Mamani."
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