Toxic levels of mercury dumped in Amazon rivers gets into food chain, posing serious health risk to children, study finds

WB study says, pointing to BD, Indonesia, Tanzania

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck 78 miles (125 km) west of Piura, Peru, on Monday at a depth of 7 miles, U.S. Geological Survey data showed.

This report examines private sector provision of on-site sanitation services in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Peru, and Tanzania, four countries where the local private sector already plays a major role in helping rural (and many urban) households construct and maintain sanitation.

For countries with rich culinary traditions that date back to the Aztecs and Incas, Mexico and Peru have developed quite a taste for modern food fashions.

n the past 5 years, political discourse about the challenge of undernutrition has increased substantially at national and international levels and has led to stated commitments from many national governments, international organisations, and donors. The Scaling Up Nutrition movement has both driven, and been driven by, this developing momentum. Harmonisation has increased among stakeholders, with regard to their understanding of the main causes of malnutrition and to the various options for addressing it.

Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and his Peruvian counterpart, Rafael Roncagliolo, agreed Tuesday that Tokyo will provide grant assistance worth ¥1.4 billion to Lima for environmental measures and to

Environmental factors contribute to 30% of Africa's disease burden and hinder the continent's development

The Peruvian night monkey has never before been studied in the wild. But new research shows that protecting forests – even small fragments – is vital to the species' survival

Researchers are racing to determine how shrinking glaciers in the Andes will affect the water supply of millions of people.

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