Positive news from Peru
Humming Bird With an Incredible Tail Does a Mating Dance (Video)It's Friday, and therefore time to sit back and enjoy some sigh-worthy beauty compliments of Mother Nature. |
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Disney Spends $7 Million to Conserve Forests in Peru, Congo, USAThe Walt Disney Company, which for 60 years has portrayed the glories of nature in film, today announced a $7 million investment to protect forests in the United States, in the Peruvian Amazon and in the Congo Basin. |
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Peru Indians hail ‘historic’ dayIndigenous groups in Peru have called off protests after two land laws which led to deadly fighting were revoked. |
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MIT Students Create Bicycle-Powered Washing MachineCambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Many people living in developing countries often lack access to electricity, making something as common as a washing machine a luxury. |
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Peru sees solid economic growth amid global crisisLima, Peru - Peru's booming economy is expected to post its fastest annual growth rate since 1994 for 2008, though the global financial crisis should slow expansion this year, the central bank said on Friday. |
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‘Ancient city unearthed’ in Peru (w/Video)Near Chiclayo, Peru - The ruins of an entire city have been discovered in northern Peru, researchers say. |
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Ethical coffee helps save Peruvian rainforest
Quillabamba, Peru (AFP) Aug 8, 2008 - Once bleak and lifeless places degraded by years of high-impact farming, Peruvian coffee farms are being transformed by a growing trend for certification schemes offering ethical and environmental guarantees to western consumers.
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Peruvian doctors showcase high cure rate for drug-resistant TB
More than 60 per cent of patients diagnosed with a type of tuberculosis that is very difficult to treat were cured with aggressive drug treatment, according to a study from Peru that shows the disease is not a 'death sentence.'
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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News from South America
- Brazil says Amazon deforestation at record low
- new mammal menagerie uncovered in remote Peruvian cloud forest
- Brazil humpback population on the rebound
- Human Rights Court Rules in Favor of Community Over Ecuadorian Government
- Venezuela Ends Shark Finning, Creates Protected Area
- Peru Aims To End Child Labour
- Indigenous group and NGO establish crucial corridor in vanishing Atlantic Forest
- Peru is latest developing nation to adopt climate change initiative
- GM crops banned in Peru
- New rainforest and indigenous reserve established in Peru