News tagged with peruvian andes
A new, beautifully colored lizard discovered in the Peruvian Andes
Germán Chávez and Diego Vásquez from the Centro de Ornitología y Biodiversidad (CORBIDI) in Peru have discovered a new colorful lizard which they named Potamites montanicola, or "mount ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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Evidence of past Southern hemisphere rainfall cycles related to Antarctic temperatures
Geoscientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Minnesota this week published the first evidence that warm-cold climate oscillations well known in the Northern Hemisphere over ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 17, 2012 |
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Stanford team shows Peruvian villagers how to protect adobe buildings from earthquake collapse
High on a mountainside in the Peruvian Andes – 9,000 feet above sea level – sits a modest adobe schoolhouse that is a lot safer for students and teachers than it was six months ago, thanks in part ...
Nov 22, 2011 |
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Llama dung contributed to Inca success in the Andes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The famous Inca city of Machu Picchu in the Peruvian Andes was rediscovered by American explorer Hiram Bingham in July 1911 and the area plans to hold a special 100 year celebration this year. ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
May 23, 2011 |
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Peruvian potato farmers launch ambitious plan to send 1,500 varieties to Arctic seed vault
As climate change and disease threaten potato farming in the tuber's ancestral home in the Peruvian Andes, potato preservationists today launched a major effort to safeguard more than 1,500 varieties by sending them to the ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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Newly drilled ice cores may be the longest taken from the Andes
Researchers spent two months this summer high in the Peruvian Andes and brought back two cores, the longest ever drilled from ice fields in the tropics.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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