Cardinal Pedro Barreto received death threats and harassment during his almost 20-year campaign against a US mining company’s operations in the Andes

SAN JUAN DE MARCONA, Peru — First, there was the H5N1 avian influenza of 2022, then El Niño arrived in 2023, disrupting coastal waters and fish availability. For Peru’s Humboldt penguins, the only…

SAN JUAN DE MARCONA, Peru — First, there was the H5N1 avian influenza of 2022, then El Niño arrived in 2023, disrupting coastal waters and fish availability. For Peru’s Humboldt penguins, the only spe...

SAN JUAN DE MARCONA, Peru — First, there was the H5N1 avian influenza of 2022, then El Niño arrived in 2023, disrupting coastal waters and fish availability. For Peru’s Humboldt penguins, the only spe...

Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of 1990s leader Alberto, is vying with a congressman to become country’s ninth president in a decade

As fish stocks dwindle, surf tourism may offer a lifeline to traditional caballitos de totora fishers, whose vessels are thought to be among the first ever used to ride waves

As fish stocks dwindle, surf tourism may offer a lifeline to traditional caballitos de totora fishers, whose vessels are thought to be among the first ever used to ride waves

José María Balcázar, who argued ban should be limited to under-14s, replaces José Jerí who was voted out after a scandal

Interim president José Jerí voted out by country’s congress amid scandal concerning secretive meetings

Opposition lawmakers say they will seek to impeach José Jerí over undisclosed meetings in Lima’s Chinatown

Exclusive: sources say powerful figures in the regime secretly pledged US and Qatari officials they would welcome Maduro’s departure

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Local people describe devastating impact of millions of toxic beads from Southern Water site near Camber Sands * What are bio-beads used for and how did they get spilled on to Camber Sands beach? The massive spill of plastic beads at Camber Sands is devastating for local people, wildlife and tourism and the beads are dispersing along the coast, residents heard at an emotional public meeting on Thursday. Millions of tiny, toxic plastic beads are thought to have escaped into the sea from Eastbourne sewage works in East Sussex about two weeks ago when a screen keeping them in broke. They began to wash up on Camber Sands beach last Thursday, with the situation worsening over the weekend. Continue reading...

Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating

Residents of Vila Cruzeiro gather bodies after more than 130 were killed in pre-dawn assault

Forced contact from evangelists and influencers are rising threats uncontacted Indigenous people face in the Amazon rainforest

Rapper shot dead by police becomes symbol of resistance in Peru, amid wave of gen Z rallies sweeping the world

The soaring value of gold has led to rampant Illegal mining, mercury poisoning and murders by criminal gangs. Is the government losing control of this precious metal, asks Dan Collyns.

The soaring value of gold has led to rampant Illegal mining, mercury poisoning and murders by criminal gangs. Is the government losing control of this precious metal, asks Dan Collyns.

Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election

Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider

Interior minister says ‘they were waiting for’ official who was shot at point-blank range outside his home in killing that has shocked Peru

Prices have dropped by up to 30% in some parts of the country – but experts say obstacles to home ownership remain

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Families of victims and advocacy groups condemn law that covers internal armed conflict from 1980 to 2000

Ecuador's Indigenous groups criticise government decision to axe Environment Ministry, they say will harm their rights, rainforest

A new health survey shows the potential damage of llegal gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon

The tech billionaire has suggested he may back down as the pair feuded over the US president’s spending bill

Shock decision has raised fears ancient site with almost 2,000-year-old geoglyphs will be exploited by illegal miners

As the price of the precious metal soars to record levels, underground gunfights have erupted in the Andean region of Pataz as the mines’ riches draw in brutal crime cartels

Shock decision has raised fears ancient site with almost 2,000-year-old geoglyphs will be exploited by illegal miners

Shock decision has raised fears ancient site with almost 2,000-year-old geoglyphs will be exploited by illegal miners

As the price of the precious metal soars to record levels, underground gunfights have erupted in the Andean region of Pataz as the mines’ riches draw in brutal crime cartels

Celia Ramos was one of thousands of women subjected to government’s brutal policy in the 1990s. A ruling by the inter-American court of human rights could open way for reparations

The long read: The Guardian journalist and the Brazilian Indigenous expert were killed while investigating the impact of deforestation. In this extract from the book Phillips was writing at the time o...

¿Por qué, en un mundo que desprecia a los políticos, tantos lo apreciaban? ¿Quizá porque hablaba un idioma que parecía nuestro idioma?

Leo XIV celebrated as second Latin American pope having spent many years in Peru’s church

Leo XIV celebrated as second Latin American pope having spent many years in Peru’s church

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