Each year in the first weeks of June, Indigenous communities in the Andes form a human chain to corral the camelids and shear ...

Simple spectral measures can be effective in delineating useful image details, but can be frustratingly resistant to differentiating subtle differences. For example, the NDVI is broadly effective for ...

High in northern Peru, three frogs no bigger than a thumbprint have stepped out of anonymity and into the scientific ...

By Mongabay.com Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are working to revive populations of the aguaje palm tree, commercially valued for its fruits, by shifting to more sustainable harvesting ...

A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking it to the Chancay culture that predated the Inca Empire.

The Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) on Wednesday announced that the San Gaban III Hydroelectric Power Plant ―located in San Gaban district, Carabaya Province (Puno region)― began operations on ...

The aim of this work was to assess the potential of continuous change detection and classification (CCDC) CCDC and trend analysis algorithms on Sentinel 2 NDVI time series (2016–2023) to capture and ...

Oil palm is a crop whose derivatives have multiple uses, resulting in staggering global demand. Because of this, Peru’s Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (MIDAGRI in Spanish) has ...

Speckle your coastal sight lines in a sea of colorful perennials. Read on for 20 of our favorite seaside plants to brighten your coastal garden.

Plants produce an astonishing variety of chemical substances. Most of these metabolites are involved in chemical communication and serve to defend against pests, protect against pathogens, and ...

Naval News takes you on an exclusive tour of the SIMA Peru shipyard. The facility at SIMA (Industrial Services of the Navy) located in Callao near the capital city, Lima, has been building ships and ...