A $2.30-a-day basic income trial is trying to save the Amazon rainforest

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People of a Peruvian Amazonian community, seen from the rear, walk along a dirt track amid lush greenery.
$2.30 is enough to feed a family in the Peruvian Amazon for a day.

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7 of the most faked seafoods in the world

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Seafood is one of the most commonly fraudulent foods we come in contact with, according to the ocean-conservation nonprofit Oceana. Your red snapper could actually be a tilapia fillet. That wild-caught salmon? It could be farm-raised.

Llama poop sparked 57% more plant growth in a part of the Andes that was barren and ravaged by climate change

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Four llamas stand in what looks like the dessert .
Llama poop is very nutrient dense, and therefore can help fertilize barren ground.

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Researchers reconstruct the face of a teenage mummy believed to have been sacrificed in an Inca ritual more than 500 years ago

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A close-up of Juanita's reconstructed face.
The reconstruction of the face of a young woman who was found frozen and mummified near the summit of Mount Ampato in the Peruvian Andes after being sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago, in Arequipa, Peru.

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Peru's 'Wall of Shame' is coming down after 40 years

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After a four-year legal battle, demolition began this week on Peru's "Wall of Shame" between rich and poor neighborhoods. On one side are multimillion-dollar mansions with swimming pools. On the other are crowded slums where residents have had to build up the hillside.

 

Take a look at Lima's 10-foot tall 'wall of shame' separating slums from luxury estates that's finally being torn down after 4 decades

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Children walk alongside the 10-foot tall "wall of shame" in Lima, Peru.

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Mysterious remains of 3,000-year-old 'Priest of Pacopampa' found buried face down with accessories of human bone

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A 3,000-year-old tomb which archaeologists of the Pacopampa Archaeological Project believe might have honored an elite religious leader in the Andean country some three millennia ago, is pictured in Pacopampa, Peru August 25, 2023.
A 3,000-year-old tomb which archaeologists of the Pacopampa Archaeological Project believe might have honored an elite religious leader in the Andean country some three millennia ago, is pictured in Pacopampa, Peru August

Thieves in Peru made off with 200 sneakers worth over $13,000 — but they were all just for the right foot: report

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Rows of sneakers at a shoes store in Peru.
Three thieves in Peru stole 200 shoes only meant for the right foot.

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A Peruvian man was found carrying around a 600-year-old mummy in his cooler bag, calling it his 'spiritual girlfriend'. It was male.

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The mummy is shown in the delivery bag.

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Netflix's Latin American password-sharing clampdown trial hints at how the upcoming rollout might work, including primary locations and special-access codes for traveling

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