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Ancient Irrigation Systems Could Help Peru on Water Security

Matias Prieto — Wed, 26 Jun 2019 15:29:22 +0000

Between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains, Peru’s coastal region relies on surface water from the Andes for drinking water, industry and animal and crop farming. This region, which includes the 12 million residents of Lima is often overwhelmed with rain in the wet season. However, by the time the dry season comes, water […]

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“Unusual Optimism” at Lima COP20 Climate Change Talks

Benji Jerew — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:05:16 +0000

Nearly 200 countries are being represented at the COP20 climate change talks, taking place over the next couple of weeks, in Lima, the capital of Peru. Even though climate change is no longer recognized as a “possibility,” but as “current events,” there seems to be an unusual amount of optimism in the air at the […]

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Illegal Mining Peru’s Largest National Park

Benji Jerew — Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:12:42 +0000

The words “National Park” and “Mining” most likely don’t go together in our minds, unless the word “prohibited” is included. Indeed, “mining” operations have been “prohibited” in Huascarán “National Park” (Parque Nacional Huascarán, en Español), since 1987, but apparently not if you care less about the law or the environment than making sweet, sweet, profits […]

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Smart Hydro Power Turbine to Help Peruvian Farm Produce Chocolate

Mila Luleva — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:52:16 +0000

Numerous communities around the world live in a desperate need of electricity. For many, it is not just to have luxury, but rather to make life possible by meeting the basic needs of their entire families. This is why projects that aim to help these communities have to be spoken about loudly and supported heavily. […]

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Carbon Mapping Peru Shows Natural and Manmade Variations

Benji Jerew — Mon, 04 Aug 2014 23:14:24 +0000

Carbon sequestration, according to some, could be key in reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide and the resulting greenhouse effect. Climate change scientists point to carbon, of course, as being the most prolific greenhouse gas in the last two hundred years, linked directly to our discovery and exploitation of fossil fuels. Aside from reducing or eliminating the […]

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Twisted Climate Change Eco-Tourism Forms Around Disappearing Peruvian Glaciers

Benji Jerew — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 16:39:01 +0000

Given that Perú is home to more tropical glaciers than anywhere else in the world, you might think that their melting away due to climate change would be bad for business. True, the number of eco-tourists has dropped in recent years. Back in the 1990s, Pastoruri Glacier, for example, used to draw about 100,000 visitors […]

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Perú Bringing Solar Power to the Masses

Benji Jerew — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 13:48:09 +0000

According to some detractors, renewable energy and efficiency programs cost jobs and would be bad for the economy. This is exactly the kind of bureaucratic head-in-the-ground thinking that keeps solar power programs, and others, on hold here in the US. Other countries are embracing the change to clean energy. Perú, for example, has an abundance […]

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Lima, Perú – Freshwater From a Billboard, University of Engineering and Technology

Benji Jerew — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:36:56 +0000

If there’s one thing that mars a skyline worse than a building in front of your favorite mountaintop, it’s probably a billboard. Of course, a billboard is put there in your face for exactly that reason, so you take notice of it. In Lima, Perú, the University of Engineering and Technology [UTEC] has re-imagined the […]

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