Early Signs: Melting Ice Caps in Ecuador

Living on Earth

This week we travel to the Ecuadorean Andes, to a snow-covered mountain that has been the source of legend for centuries. Now the glacier has melted, and the region’s native people try to cope with a warmer, drier, world.

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