Scientists install glacier station in Cuzco

Peruvian scientists have installed a station 5,180 meters above sea level on the Quisoquipina glacier in Cuzco department to measure the impact of climate change, the environment ministry said. The Cuzco station is one of two that will be installed in Peru as part of the Adaptation to the Impact of the Accelerated Retreat of [...]

Al Gore: Kudos to Peru for democracy and economic boom; all the better to confront global warming threat

“I want to talk to you today about the climate crisis and I want to put some of these thoughts in the context of the challenges you are facing here in Peru,” Gore told the audience. “Many, if not most companies trying to establish leadership in combating global warming, have found that clean technologies are good for their operations as they have benefited in many ways including better brands and a great reception from consumers”

Amazon’s water level shows signs of recovery after reaching historic low

The Amazon River’s water level in Peru’s Loreto department is starting to show signs of recovery after the level had fallen to a historic low earlier this month, state news agency Andina reported. On Sunday, authorities from the national meteorology and hydrology service Senamhi in Loreto measured the water level and found that it was [...]

Environment Minister Brack inaugurates conference 3R3: Towards a Green Peru

Environment Minister Antonio Brack inaugurated the environmental conference 3R3: Towards a Green Peru on Monday. During the conference, Brack said that about 80 percent of solid waste in Peru is left untreated in the environment, state news agency Andina reported. “Never before has humanity had as much technology in its reach to see what is [...]

Arid Lima among most wasteful cities for water consumption

Peru’s capital Lima is one of the most wasteful consumers of water among major cities despite a shortage of the precious resource, according to Nicole Bernex Weiss, the academic director at the Catholic University’s (PUCP) Center for Applied Geographical Research. The per capita consumption of water in Lima, the world’s second largest desert city after [...]

Peru’s Quelccaya glacier could disappear within 10 years, specialist says

Peru’s Quelccaya glacier, the largest in the tropics, could disappear within 10 years, Jose Machare, a climate change specialist at Peru’s Geological Society told state news agency Andina. Studies of Quelccaya during the last 30 years have found the glacier retreated at an average rate of 6 meters per year during the first 15 years [...]

Barbara Fraser interviews Ohio State glaciologist Lonnie Thompson about the implications of global climate change on Peru’s melting glaciers

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Thousands of hectares of potato and corn gone to waste: blame climate change says Peru Environment Ministry

Approximately 80,000 hectares of potato and 60,000 hectares of corn crops that would have nourished up to 11 million Peruvians have gone to waste during the past 12 harvests because of climate change and soil degradation, Peru’s Environment Ministry said Monday.

Millions of Peruvians respond to Earth Hour’s climate call

Many Peruvian landmarks — and world famous cultural symbol Machu Picchu — went dark for the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour 2009. Lights went out around the world for Earth Hour on Saturday, March 28, 2009, at exactly 8:30 PM local time, in every time zone. In Peru’s capital, Lima, the Government Palace was the [...]

Lights out in Peru for global warming

Citizens worldwide and in Peru will be switching off their lights on March 28, as part of the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour 2009 Campaign. “This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race [...]

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