Nature
Melting in the Andes: Goodbye Glaciers
Scientific American
Is the Amazon rain forest drying out?
The Daily Climate
Warming Atlantic primes the Amazon for fire
Altered climate forces cultural shift high in Andes
The Andes' triple bottom line
Glaciers go, leaving drought, conflict and tension in Andes
EcoAmericas
Curbing miners a challege in Madre de Dios
Looking to create a healthier family hearth
Residents form ecotourism corridor in Peru
Boosting sustainable rural livelihoods key for Haiti
Peru-Brazil dam plans power Amazon debate
Peru's Madre de Dios: carbon-storage test ground
Environmental Health News
Killer cookstoves: indoor smoke deadly in poor countries; cleaner stoves elusive
Thousands of dolphins may have died in Peru's massive die-off; cause may remain a mystery
Townspeople, gold shopkeepers highly exposed to mercury in Peru
Environmental Science & Technology
Peruvian gold rush threatens health and environment
La Oroya legacy of lead
The Lancet
Latin America looks to violence prevention for answers
Growing up in Rio's favelas
Cancer cluster in Chile linked to arsenic contamination
Peru makes progress on maternal health
Providing medical care in the Peruvian Amazon
Controlling Chagas' disease in urban Peru
Traffic accidents scar Latin America's roads
Mongabay
High gold prices trigger rainforest destruction in Peru
National Catholic Reporter
SuPer(u)Natural
-
Natural PeruThe great diversity of regional cultures and cuisines in Peru reflects the country's natural and agricultural biodiversity. Millennia of geological and...Read More...
Coastal Desert
-
Pacific coast Peru's coast is a long strip of desert cut in more than 50 places by seasonal rivers that flow from the Andes to the Pacific Ocean. But the coast has not always been arid. After South America broke away...Read More... -
Coastal current The coastal ecosystems and the civilizations that flourished on the Peruvian coast have been shaped by Pacific currents. The Peruvian or Humboldt Current flowing northward along the coast of South America,...Read More...
- 1
- 2
Andes Mountains
-
Andes Mountains The uplift of the Andes mountains over millions of years has been due to a combination of Read More...
Tropical glaciers The Andes are topped by the largest concentration of ice anywhere in the Earth’s tropics (the belt around the middle...Read More...- 1
- 2
Amazon Basin
-
Amazon basin The Amazon basin is the largest watershed on Earth. It provides about 20 percent of all fresh water...Read More... -
Water and winds The Amazon watershed lies in the tropics, the band around the equator from...Read More...
- 1
- 2
- 3
Barbara Fraser is a freelance journalist based in Lima, Peru. With 20 years of experience in Latin America, she puts a human face on current events and public policy. She offers research, writing, editing and photography services, with particular expertise in Latin American, environmental, public health and social issues.