ISLA DE ASIA, Peru — The worldwide boom in commodities has come to this: Even guano, the bird dung that was the focus of an imperialist scramble on the high seas in the 19th century, is in strong ...

Peru's Guano Coastal Birds Face Crisis as Population Drops Over 75%, Scientists Say By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) -Scientists along Peru's central Pacific coast are sounding the alarm that more ...

Unlike their cold-weather relatives, Humboldt penguins live only in South America, along the rocky Pacific coast of Chile and Peru. The Saint Louis Zoo’s Michael Macek has been monitoring the penguins ...

Peru is in deep shit. No, seriously: thanks to an exceptionally dry climate, islands off the Peruvian coast are awash in preserved bird guano, which the country has long exported as non-chemical ...

LIMA, Peru — Bird droppings are a nuisance for most people, but in Peru they have been a closely guarded treasure since pre-Columbian times. Guano, a gentler word for dung, is one of the few words in ...

LIMA, Peru — Bird droppings are a nuisance for most people, but in Peru they have been a closely guarded treasure since pre-Columbian times. Guano, a gentler word for dung, is one of the few words in ...

LIMA, PeruLIMA, Peru — Drug agents in Peru say they have seized 3 tons of cocaine mixed into a shipment of guano bound for Spain. A four-month investigation led to the seizure at a warehouse in the ...

Scientists along Peru's central Pacific coast are sounding the alarm that more action is needed to protect seabirds, sea lions, and penguins as climate change, disease, and overfishing threaten their ...

LIMA, Peru – Bird droppings are a nuisance for most people, but in Peru they have been a closely guarded treasure since pre-Columbian times. Guano, a gentler word for dung, is one of the few words in ...