Forests sustain and protect us in a myriad of ways. They absorb carbon dioxide and provide us with oxygen, they harbour more than three quarters of terrestrial biodiversity, and they support the livelihoods of millions of people worldwide. But the world has lost 420 million hectares of forest since 1990. …
Peru’s Quelccaya ice cap, the world’s largest tropical ice sheet, is shrinking because of rising temperatures, according to a study by Dartmouth College. Dartmouth’s research suggests “that these tropical glaciers are shrinking very rapidly today because of a warming climate,” said Meredith Kelly, one of the study’s authors, in a …
The Peruvian government has approved plans for gas company Pluspetrol to move deeper into a supposedly protected reserve for indigenous peoples and the buffer zone of the Manu National Park in the Amazon rainforest. The approval follows the government rescinding a highly critical report on the potential impacts of the …
400 carcases found in single month on beach in Lambayeque region where more than 800 washed up in whole of 2012 More than 400 dead dolphins were found in January on the Pacific Ocean beaches of northern Peru where twice that number were encountered in the whole of 2012, officials …
Government moves one step closer to expand Camisea project despite concerns about impact on indigenous peoples The Peruvian government is pushing ahead with plans to expand gas operations in a supposedly protected reserve in the Amazon despite calls by the United Nations to suspend them. The company leading the operations, …
Tapping the Markets: Opportunities for Domestic Investments in Water and Sanitation for the Poor presents the results of a detailed examination of market opportunities for the domestic private sector in the provision of piped water and on-site sanitation services in rural and semi-urban areas and of the commercial, policy, and …
Different bodies are mandated to negotiate for different elements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Some of the negotiating platforms relevant to the topic are discussed.
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck central Peru on Monday, shaking buildings in Lima, the capital, but there was no immediate damage or casualties reported. The epicenter was 29 kilometers to the north of the town of San Vicente de Canete, south of Lima, and was recorded at a depth of …
Delegates from more than 190 nations at the annual U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiation in Warsaw, Poland today reached agreement on a pathway to Paris in 2015, where they have committed to adopt a new, comprehensive, post-2020 agreement to address the climate crisis. Countries also agreed to …
Retailer Marks & Spencer has announced a new partnership with a charity that will protect 2,000 hectares (5,000 acres) of rainforest in Peru. The retailer has signed a partnership with UK-based rainforest protection charity Cool Earth, that will ensure the protection of one million trees in the Amazon. In addition …
Four years of scientific expeditions have found previously unknown animals and plants in world's largest tropical rainforest A purring monkey, a vegetarian piranha and a flame-patterned lizard are among more than 400 new species of animals and plants that have been discovered in the past four years in the Amazon …
Toxic levels of mercury dumped in Amazon rivers gets into food chain, posing serious health risk to children, study finds Indigenous children in Peru's south eastern Amazon, an area where tens of thousands of illegal gold miners operate, have unsafe mercury concentrations over three times the level of their non-native …
WB study says, pointing to BD, Indonesia, Tanzania Sanitation services, including construction and installation of toilets and septic tanks, could be a multi-billion dollar business for entrepreneurs in the developing and least developed countries, such as Bangladesh, revealed a recent study of the World Bank (WB). Conducted by the WB's …
This report examines private sector provision of on-site sanitation services in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Peru, and Tanzania, four countries where the local private sector already plays a major role in helping rural (and many urban) households construct and maintain sanitation. In Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Tanzania, at least 95 percent of the …
For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions. Mexicans quaff more fizzy drinks than any other country; Peru has the highest density of fast-food joints in the world. Chile, one of the …
n the past 5 years, political discourse about the challenge of undernutrition has increased substantially at national and international levels and has led to stated commitments from many national governments, international organisations, and donors. The Scaling Up Nutrition movement has both driven, and been driven by, this developing momentum. Harmonisation …
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Peruvian counterpart, Rafael Roncagliolo, agreed Tuesday that Tokyo will provide grant assistance worth ¥1.4 billion to Lima for environmental measures and tourism development, Japanese officials said. The two ministers also confirmed plans to cooperate in the negotiations for the multinational trade liberalization pact called …
Environmental factors contribute to 30% of Africa's disease burden and hinder the continent's development In 2006, a ship chartered by Dutch-based commodities trader Trafigura illegally unloaded 500 tonnes of toxic waste in the ports of Abidjan, the largest city in Ivory Coast. Local contractors then dumped the contents in town. …
The Peruvian night monkey has never before been studied in the wild. But new research shows that protecting forests – even small fragments – is vital to the species' survival The Peruvian night monkey (Aotus miconax) is one of the world's least known primates, having never been studied in the …
