Ancient brewery discovered on mountaintop in Peru
CHICAGO--Archaeologists working in southern Peru found an ancient brewery more than 1,000 years old. Remains of the brewing facility were uncovered on Cerro Bal, a mountaintop city over 8,000 feet above sea level, which was home to elite members of the Wari Empire from AD 600-1000. ...Predating the Inca Empire by at least four centuries, this Wari brewery was used to make chicha, a fermented b...Human rights in Peru: AAAS analysis doubles previous estimates of killings
This news release is also available in .... .........AAAS, the science society, today announced startling new estimates on the number of people who "disappeared" or were killed in Peru during a 20-year battle between government forces and Maoist insurgents that ended in the late 1990s. ......A final, peer-reviewed version of the AAAS analysis, released today, "doubles earlier, incomplete estimat...Field Museum awarded $5.2 million for community-based conservation in Peru
CHICAGO--The Field Museum has received $5.2 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to work with its partner, Centro de Conservacin, Investigacin y Manejo de Areas Naturales Cordillera Azul (CIMA) and other Peruvian and international organizations, to develop ecologically compatible opportunities for communities neighboring the huge new Parque Nacional Cordillera Azul...Field Museum's Parker/Gentry Award goes to Peruvian conservationists
CHICAGO The seventh annual Parker/Gentry Award goes to an outstanding team of Peruvian conservationists in recognition of their leadership in helping to preserve two remarkable Peruvian natural treasures: the Cordillera Azul and Los Amigos. ... ...Their tireless efforts on behalf of these two regions culminated in ... the protection of the last large, intact tract of lower montane forest in Pe...Historic U.S.-Peru debt-for-nature swap
Washington, D.C., June 26, 2002 With a commitment of $1.1 million from Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund, the U.S. and Peruvian governments today signed an historic agreement to protect some of the most biologically rich tropical rain forests on Earth. This is the first time three leading conservation groups have joined forces with the U.S. government...Rock-eating microbes survive in deep ocean off Peru
COLLEGE STATION, February 21, 2002 - Way down deep in the ...ocean off the coast of Peru, in the rocks that form the sea floor, ...live bacteria that don't need sunlight, don't need carbon dioxide, ...don't need oxygen. These microbes subsist by eating the very rocks ...they call home. ... Researchers from the Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) have ...embarked aboard the world's largest scientific...Biologists find Peruvian plants inhibit growth of TB bacterium
.Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis studying medicinal plants from the Peruvian rainforests have come across results that may significantly influence the direction of the fight against tuberculosis (TB) worldwide. Walter H. Lewis, Ph.D., professor of biology at Washington University, and his colleagues examined about 1,250 plant extracts returned from Peru and found that...