Water is essential for human life, but in many parts of the world water supplies are under threat from more extreme, less predictable weather conditions due to climate change. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Peruvian ...
Environment
Aug 26, 2019
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Ben Orlove, an anthropologist, has conducted field work in the Peruvian Andes, East Africa, the Italian Alps and Aboriginal Australia. His early work focused on agriculture, fisheries and rangelands. More recently he has ...
Earth Sciences
Jul 11, 2019
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Scientists in Peru have removed small green algae from polluted lakes and rivers in a bid to strengthen them with nutrients and oxygen before returning them to purify those water bodies from harmful mining waste.
Environment
Mar 14, 2019
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While some dream of the day that aerial drones deliver their online purchases, scientists are using the technology today to deliver data that was never available before.
Earth Sciences
Dec 15, 2015
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This image features Peru's Quelccaya ice cap, the largest in the Tropics.
Earth Sciences
Nov 28, 2014
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Mice living in the high-altitude, oxygen-starved environment of the Andean mountains survive those harsh conditions by fueling their muscles with carbohydrates. The findings, reported online on December 6 in Current Biology, ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 6, 2012
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Researchers from the Carnegie Institution are rolling out results from the new Airborne Taxonomic Mapping System, or AToMS, for the first time at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) meetings in San Francisco. The groundbreaking ...
Environment
Dec 4, 2012
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Germán Chávez and Diego Vásquez from the Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI) in Peru have discovered a new colorful lizard which they named Potamites montanicola, or "mountain dweller". The ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 17, 2012
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Geoscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Minnesota this week published the first evidence that warm-cold climate oscillations well known in the Northern Hemisphere over the most recent ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2012
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High on a mountainside in the Peruvian Andes – 9,000 feet above sea level – sits a modest adobe schoolhouse that is a lot safer for students and teachers than it was six months ago, thanks in part to the efforts ...
Engineering
Nov 22, 2011
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