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Peru

Latin America Faces ‘Hydrological Whiplash’ as Climate Risks Mount

A new World Meteorological Organization report estimated 13,000 annual heat-related deaths across 17 countries in the region.

By Bob Berwyn

People carry their belongings as they evacuate due to flooding in Yaguachi, Ecuador, on Feb. 25, 2025. Credit: Marcos Pin/AFP via Getty Images
A dengue fever patient walks inside the Sergio Bernales National Hospital in the outskirts of Lima, Peru, on April 17, 2024. Credit: Juan Carlos Cisneros/AFP via Getty Images

A New Study Links a Record-Breaking Tropical Disease Outbreak in Peru to Climate-Driven Extreme Weather

By Liza Gross

Peru LNG plant.

U.S. Company Releasing Unauthorized Emissions From Peru LNG Terminal

By Maria Alejandra Gonzales and Wil Crisp, Convoca

The cranes of a new megaport tower behind the town of Chancay, Peru. Credit: Cris Bouroncle/AFP via Getty Images

A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge

By Georgina Gustin

The Interoceanic Highway runs by an illegal gold mining site in La Pampa, Peru. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

When a Road Goes Wrong

By Georgina Gustin

Micaela Huaman Fernandez, an Asháninka stingless beekeeper, inspects a hive of Tetragonisca angustula bees. Credit: Teresa Tomassoni/Inside Climate News

Defending Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon

By Teresa Tomassoni

A camp and crops are seen in the proposed Yavarí Mirim Indigenous Reserve region in 2021. Credit: Courtesy of ORPIO

Peru Votes Against Creating New Indigenous Reserve in Amazon Region

By Nicholas Kusnetz

An illegal deforestation camp is seen on Isconahua indigenous land in Peru’s Amazon region. Credit: Courtesy of ORPIO

Peru to Consider New Reserve for Uncontacted Indigenous People

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya is seen on a laptop during a statement for media on Wednesday after the Higher Regional Court ruling in Hamm, Germany. Credit: Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images

German Court Rejects Peruvian’s Claim of Climate Harms

By Bob Berwyn

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari receives the Goldman Environmental Prize for her decades-long fight to protect the Marañón River in Peru. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

Rights of Nature Defender Wins Goldman Prize for Precedent-Setting Work Protecting an Imperiled River

By Katie Surma

Márcio Aita Júnior and Senderson Laurido soar over crescent dunes in the Peruvian Sechura Desert using motorized paragliders. Credit: Mike Campbell-Jones

Watching Over a Fragile Desert From the Skies

By Humberto Basilio

Researcher Emilio Mateo takes a rock sample in front of an iceberg-filled lake at the toe of Queshque Glacier, in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru. Credit: Evan Vega

Tropical Glaciers in the Andes Are the Smallest They’ve Been in 11,700 Years

By Alexa Robles-Gil

An aerial view of kids playing at a school near the metallurgical complex in La Oroya, Peru. Credit: Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images

Q&A: The U.N.’s New Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and Environment Previously Won a Landmark Case in Peru

By Katie Surma

A view of Lake Palcacocha, a glacier lake in the Peruvian Andes near Huaraz on May 23, 2022. Credit: Angela Ponce/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Glaciers in Peru’s Central Andes Might Be Gone by 2050s, Study Says

By Alexa Robles-Gil

Aymara activists opposed to mining operations in Peru's southeastern Puno region organized on May 31, 2011 for a wave of protests against the Canada-based Bear Creek Mining Corporation plans to open a silver mine in the area. Credit: Aizar Raldes/AFP via Getty Images

The International System That Pits Foreign Investors Against Indigenous Communities

By Katie Surma, Nicholas Kusnetz

Pollution from smelting and mining operations in La Oroya, Peru have made the Andean city one of the most contaminated places on Earth. Credit: Mitchell Gilbert/AIDA

International Court Issues First-Ever Decision Enforcing the Right to a Healthy Environment

By Katie Surma

The lawsuit to obtain recognition of the Marañón River’s legal rights was filed by the Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana, a federation of Kukama Indigenous women. Credit: Miguel Araoz/Quisca

Landmark Peruvian Court Ruling Says the Marañón River Has Legal Rights To Exist, Flow and Be Free From Pollution

By Katie Surma

The photo posted on Twitter on July 22, 2020 purporting to show hundreds of brightly illuminated Chinese ships fishing illegally.

A Frequent Culprit, China Is Also an Easy Scapegoat

By Ian Urbina

A Growing Movement Looks to End Oil Drilling in the Amazon

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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