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World’s largest tropical glacier to disappear in less than 10 years
The Quelccaya ice field is some 5,500 metres above sea level and 44 kilometres in length extending up the Vilcanota cordillera in Cusco, making it the largest in the tropics. Unfortunately it won’t exist for much longer.
Almost three years after the Ica earthquake, thousands still without homes
Some 40,000 families have yet to receive help in reconstructing their homes and are having to suffer an exceptionally cold winter with temperatures as low as 3.6°c. Many have been forced to re-occupy collapsing adobe homes to prevent illness.
Ancient “Human Sacrifices” Found at Huaca Bandera
Announced last week, the 197-foot-long (60-meter-long) sacrificial chamber or passageway at the Huaca Bandera archaeological site belonged to the Moche culture.
Human remains found at Kuélap ruins
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of 79 Chachapoyans while carrying out restoration work at the hill-fortress of Kuelap in Northern Peru.
South Korea to send humanitarian aid for victims of cold wave in Peru
The Korean government has decided to send emergency relief supplies worth 50,000 dollars to Peru, where people have died due to the recent cold wave.
Cold wave sends Amazon temperatures to icy depths
Temperatures in Puerto Maldonado this weekend dropped as low as 10°c (50°f) as cold air swept down from the icy Andes in a phenomenon that is often seen at least once each year.
New royal Sicán tomb discovered in Bosque de Pomac
The Pomac Forest, first home of the Sicán civilisation, has revealed another ancient secret. Under Las Ventanas, one of several adobe pyramids that poke out above the dry forest’s trees, one of the most ancient tombs of the elite has been discovered.
English priest stops Amazon logging giants in their tracks [Featured]
A mild-looking, bespectacled Catholic priest, born in Portsmouth, educated at Oxford and now working in the Peruvian rainforest, is behind an important victory for local people over the logging companies laying waste to large stretches of Amazonia.
Fierce sea monster fossil found in Peru
Peru’s dry coastal desert, once part of the Pacific seabed, has offered up another fabulous discovery for the fossil hunters who roam the area, known to be the final resting place of many ancient sea creatures.
Oil spill in the Amazon rainforest, 400 barrels released into the Marañón river
LATEST NEWS: An oil spill has occurred on the edge of the Pacaya-Samira National Reserve, also home to 28 indigenous communities. A Pluspetrol tanker has had its hull ruptured, they state a clean up is under way.
Can painting a mountain restore a glacier? [Featured]
Dan Collyns explains an unusual plan to paint the Andes white to halt the receding of glaciers and fight global warming.
