Scientists are using everything from a yellow submarine to weather balloons and special airplanes to solve a climate conundrum: why is Peru getting colder while the rest of the world heats up?

Construction of a $1.4bn, 700-mile pipeline to carry natural gas from Peru's Camisea fields to its impoverished south will begin in 2010, according to Kuntur Transportadora de Gas, which will sign a contract with the country's government today.

ON THE face of it, a mostly peaceful protest by several thousand tribespeople in Peru

camera traps work well to estimate species diversity of medium and large mammals, a recent study says. Counting the number of mammals in dense tropical forests is difficult and rare species are often missed out. Camera traps offer a new tool for finding the number of large and medium sized terrestrial mammals. But the method is not foolproof and researchers point out the importance of having an

Peru is considered to be one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. On the steep slopes of Chopcca, a community of 10,000 residents in the Andes, the rains come later, don't last as long and end more abruptly than they did only a few years ago. Frosts and hail hit earlier and more frequently. Fewer clouds drift by to moderate the extremes of temperature.

Press Trust Of India / Lima July 09, 2008, 0:12 IST Reliance Industries (RIL) has signed an agreement with Peru's Perupetro to jointly explore for oil and gas in the Andean country,Cesar Gutirrez ,president of Peru's state-run firm, said. "We'll be formalising the agreements reached in these past weeks. Also, in the coming days we will provide details of the joint exploration venture which focusses on areas that hold oil and gas potential," Cesar Gutierrez told Peru's official Andina news agency yesterday.

Rio De Janeiro: Dramatic photographs of previously unfound Amazon Indians have highlighted the precariousness of the few remaining "lost' tribes and the dangers they face from contact with outsiders.