Gold Mining and Mercury Poisoning
- Film - Amazon GoldAmazon Gold is the disturbing account of a clandestine journey that bears witness to the apocalyptic destruction of the rainforest in the pursuit of illegally mined gold.
- Mother of God, Child of ZeusVirginia Quarterly Review, Fall 2010, pp.94-121. Deep in the Amazon, mercury from small gold mines threatens to poison the rivers—and their people.
- Going For The Gold Sends Mercury Down The RiverNPR, January 21, 2015. By Jason Beaubien.
Illegal mining, which accounts for about 20 percent of the country's gold exports, is leading to mercury contamination in the headwaters of the Amazon. - Illegal gold mining exposing Peru's indigenous tribes to mercury poisoningThe Guardian, 9 September 2013. Toxic levels of mercury dumped in Amazon rivers gets into food chain, posing serious health risk to children, study finds.
- Peruvian Gold Comes with Mercury Health RisksScientific American, April 11, 2011. Merchants, townspeople in Peru face similar risks to gold miners
- Peru battles the golden curse of Madre de DiosNature, June 20, 2012. Attempts to reduce the environmental and health impacts of mining cause unrest.
Artículos
- América Latina en Movimiento -- Crisis AmbientalSpanish and English articles.
Gold Mining & Mercury - Book at KU
The Amazon Rush Gold and Environmental Mercury Contamination by Call Number: Engineering Library TD196.M38 B655 2009Publication Date: 2009
Climate Change Issues in Peru
- Peru snowstorms spark state of emergency in AndesTens of thousands of animals killed and crops ruined as temperatures tumble to lowest levels in decades.
theguardian.com, Wednesday 4 September 2013 - How Is Climate Change Affecting Tropical Forests?WUNC, September 10, 2013.
- Uphill Battle - Smithsonian.comAs the climate warms in the cloud forests of the Andes, plants and animals must climb to higher, cooler elevations or die.
Uphill Battle - photo gallery included: In these mysterious, foggy forests, many plants don't bother to send out roots -- they suck all the moisture they need from clouds. - Tracing 4,000 years of environmental history in the Cuzco Area, Peru, from the pollen record.Chepstow-Lusty, A.J., Bennett, K.D., Fjeldsa, J., Kendall, A., Galiano, W. and Herrera, A.T. 1998. Mountain Research and Development 18: 159-172.
- A late Holocene record of arid events from the Cuzco region, Peru.Chepstow-Lusty, A., Frogley, M.R., Bauer, B.S., Bush, M.B. and Herrera, A.T. 2003. Journal of Quaternary Science 18: 491-502.
- Inca agroforestry: Lessons from the past.Chepstow-Lusty, A. and Winfield, M. 2000. Ambio 29: 322-328.
- Pre-Incan agricultural activity recorded in dust layers in two tropical ice cores.Thompson, L.G., Davis, M.E., Mosley-Thompson, E. and Liu, K.-B. 1988. Nature 307: 763-765.
- Rain Forest Plants Race to Outrun Global WarmingNational Geographic, September 15, 2013
Rain Forest Plants Race to Outrun Global Warming
Tropical plants are migrating due to climate change, but can they move fast enough?
Radioteca
Radioteca -- Un portal de intercambio de producciones radiofónicas que enriquecemos entre todas y todos, con derechos compartidos, construido colectivamente por centenares de emisoras, centros y redes, de América Latina y otras regiones del mundo.
- Yaku Kawsay / El agua es vida (Quechua)Descripción: Resultado de una investigación bibliográfica y de campo, que recoge en ameno diálogo el problema real de los pueblos y comunidades indígenas del Perú respecto al agua.
6 audios en la serie - en Quechua
Mongabay news
- Mongabay newsMongabay.com is one of the world's most popular environmental science and conservation news sites. The news and rainforests sections of the site are widely cited for information on tropical forests, conservation, and wildlife.
TransOceanic Highways
http://toddebr.blogspot.com/2013/01/southern-interoceanic-highway-peru.html
NPR's 2012 4-part story on the TransOceanic Highways:
- Peru's new highway to the futureThe Christian Science Monitor , June 25, 2011. The Interoceanic Highway, which will connect Peru's Pacific coast to the shores of the Atlantic in Brazil, could revolutionize the region much as the transcontinental railroad did in the US in 1869.
- An Orchid Hunting Journey Over The Peruvian Andes 2008Oxford University Expedition 2008: An orchid inventory along the transects II and IV of the InterOceanic Highway.
A Peruvian Orchid Hunting Journey published in the Orchid Digest « Quintin Lake Photography Blog, March 7, 2009 - THE INTEROCEANIC HIGHWAY LINKING CULTURES AND CHANGING THE AMAZON FORESTAt a cost of 1.3 billion dollars a road is being driven west from a remote corner of Brazil. The route leads through virgin Amazon rainforest to the Andes mountains Then after crossing a pass higher than Mont Blanc the road descends to the Pacific coast and opens the way to Asia. Yellow is road under construction
Oil and Gas
- Two lawsuits to stop Peru’s biggest gas project in indigenous reservePosted by David Hill, Tuesday 25 February 2014, theguardian.com
Operations by gas consortium in Amazon reserve for vulnerable indigenous peoples met with legal action. - Exploitation of Peru's 'miracle' oil deposits in the Amazon is delayedThe Guardian, Andes to the Amazon blog, July 2013 -- Operations by company Perenco behind schedule as Peruvian NGO publishes critical report
Other news articles
- In Peru's Blood Festival, It's The Condor Versus The Bull
NPR Parallels, Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato, August 13, 2014