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This 1,000-mile river suffered decades of oil spills. Now it’s a legal person, things could change
Peru’s Marañón River was made a legal person, granting it the rights to be free-flowing and free of contamination. Mari Luz ...
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Mastercard: Harking Back to the Inca’s Golden Past To Plant a Greener Future
As Peruvian biologist Constantino Aucca Chutas sat chewing coca leaves with a local elder high in the Andes, his companion ...
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Reforesting the Andes: One tree at a time
There has been a huge push to plant native trees across the Andes in recent years. And it’s been a success. This is episode 23 of Stories of Resistance, in honor of Earth Day.
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian Author and Nobel Literature Laureate, Dies at 89
He was author of such celebrated novels as 'The Time of the Hero' (La Ciudad y los Perros) and 'Feast of the Goat.' ...
Spirits industry getting hammered, reviving a river, ‘hell ants’: Catch up on the day’s stories
1️⃣ Getting hammered: Exports of American-made spirits reached a record high of $2.4 billion last year. However, a leading ...
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This 1,000-mile river suffered decades of oil spills. Now it’s a legal person, things could change
Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet ...
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peruvian author and Nobel literature laureate, dies aged 89
Llosa was a prolific author and essayist with several celebrated novels including “The Time of the Hero” (La Ciudad y los ...
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This 1,000-mile river suffered decades of oil spills. Now it’s a legal person, things could change
In the year 2000, over 5,000 barrels of crude oil spilled from a barge into the Marañón River, which runs 900 miles (1,450 kilometers) across Peru, from the snow-capped mountains of the Andes ...