Quilca Mountain’s snow-covered peak has completely melted away: climate change blamed

Just two years after residents and local authorities first sounded the alarm, climate change is being blamed for the complete disappearance of Quilca Mountain’s snow cap, state news agency Andina reported Monday. “There is no snow left,” said Omar Velásquez, an administrative irrigation technician employed by the San Román Agrarian Agency, located in the highland [...]

Economist: regulation needed to ensure greater savings for Peruvian consumers who convert gasoline cars to cleaner-burning natural gas

While thousands of drivers in Peru’s capital are converting their gasoline powered vehicles to run on Peru’s abundant supply of less expensive natural gas, one economist says the savings aren’t as substantial as they should be because filling stations are gouging customers with artificially high costs to compress the fuel into their tanks. “The lower [...]

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