Ari Caramanica, Vanderbilt University (THE CONVERSATION) Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time ... succeeded-in-turning-deserts-into-farms-because-of-the-culture-without-it-the ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Seeing the north coast of Peru for the first time, you would be hard-pressed to believe it's one of the driest deserts in the world . Parts of the region receive less ...

Peru has lost over half its glacier surface area since 1962. At the same time, floods often connected to wet El Niño years are increasing in both frequency and intensity .