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 S ource of pride for Piura in NASA   TALARA, Peru – Alexandra Castro, a fifth-year high school student at 15513 "Emblemática Talara " School, has achieved a unique experience: visiting the Houston Space Center , one of the most iconic places in space exploration history, as part of the She is an Astronaut program.   Sponsored by SLB, this initiative empowers girls through Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics ( STEAM ), encouraging them to pursue careers in these fields.   The She is an Astronaut program, launched in 2019, selects talented girls from Latin America , offering them an immersive STEAM education and the opportunity to visit NASA ’s Houston Space Center. The program challenges gender stereotypes and empowers future generations of female scientists and space explorers.   NASA: Pioneer in Space Exploration— Since its inception in 1958, NASA has been at the forefront of space exploration. From the historic Apollo p...

The plan is providing, gradually along 2024, additional 65 million cubic meters to Poechos Reservoir, the largest of Peru.   LANCONÉS, Peru – Chira-Piura Special Project (PECHP by its initials in Spanish) plans to rise the operation height of Poechos Reservoir, the largest of Peru, until 105.5 meters (346.2 feet) altitude along 2024. In that sense, it will evaluate, based upon a filling plan, to take the decision for holding that height as the top operation level in the next years.   This Will allow Poechos to increase about 65 million cubic meters  (17 million gallons) of water not making an additional investment in infrastructure, built initially in 1972 and started in 1976, to store until 1 billion cubic meters. Because of sedimentation, this capability has been reduced in 55%.   The procedure was announced by PECHP’s President Victor Garrido Lecca Ramos, after holding coordination meetings with the National authority of Water’s (Ana, by its initials i...

Written and photographed by Mariluz Mejía, distributed by agrored Norte.   Girls and teenagers of Provinces Ayabaca and Huancabamba, highlands of Piura Departmen t , participate in the ethnical-botanical investigation made by Agrored Norte & Mountain Institute , funded by Peru’s National Council of Science & Technology, Ministry of environment, and Ministry of Agrarian Development & Irrigation, about the potential of wild fruit species of páramos and cloud forests .   They are high-school students of Totora school, Pacaipampa District ( Ayabaca Province ) and Cajas-Shapaya’s Virgen del Carmen School, El Carmen de la Frontera District ( Huancabamba Province ).   Those girls and teenagers mean a potential in scientific knowledge generation to value the riches of Piura Andes biodiversity, that belongs to the families living around the páramos and cloud forest ecosystems   The contribution of the girls’ knowledge  about  the ...

Tiny, voracious, it’s eating massively the leaves of the most emblematic tree of Piura.   Attacked carob trees ( Prosopis pallida ) in Cruz Verde, a town of Malingas Community , in Tambograndé, Peru, as they looked like on July 27 th , 2023. Locals told FACTORTIERRA that they also noticed defoliation of Caesalpinia paipai in the acres and Malingas Mount . All photographs along this ENTRY by Milton Garcia , distributed by FACTORTIERRA.   Again, the Peruvian carob trees ( Prosopis pallida ) are losing their leaves –specialists and activists already have a usual suspect this time, despite they couldn’t quantify the extension, yet, so the cost of the damage.   It’s about the Enallodiplosis discordis ( Diptera : Cecidomyiidae ), a kind of tiny fly from the large cecidomid genus, that seems to flourish in dry, desert climates. It was systematized in 1994 by Raymond J. Gagne for a research published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, now in care of the Smith...

There are any between Southern Ecuador and Central Peru – this is the most plausible explanation.     The usual condition for what a volcano breaks out or erupts is under the Earth crus t – the mantle (the second layer going to the core), that is basically melted rock or magma , find weak zones at the crust where it can emerge due to the high pressure expanding the liquid and gas fluids as well.   This can happen in places where the crust is literally cracked because of subduction or embedding of a tectonic plate beneath another. The phenomenon causes so much friction that melts all the matter, so this tends to seek where to emerge by. If it gets, it goes up until reaching the surface taking out through a new way or a previously open one. A volcanic eruption happens so.   In case of the Andes, although Nazca Plate subducts under the South American Plate, it doesn’t do like an only lineal block but at two contact points: The first, according to ...

New deluges slamming the ancient Sícan land.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo | Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Instagram     PÍTIPO, Peru – It was a long drought period, people was desperate. Their governors ran to magic to ease the arrival of rains but nothing seemed to work. The angry people conspired, set the main city on fire. Time later, the rain came on… rather, days of true deluges. The place flooded, the people had to move to another safe zone.   It was 1100 AD. At Pomac Forest, people saw their agriculture dying because of the water lack . It hadn’t rained enough during 30 years, and rites of priests and governors were useless. It’s supposed that ignited the riot.   Archeologist Izumi Shimada (Kyoto, Japan, 1948) has researched the place since 1978. It’s known as Batán Grandé today, maybe because of many boulders to exist for grinding minerals due to the old Lambayequé people was expert in goldsmith.   Also known as Sic...

Those phenomena are usual at Southern Pacific but not at its eastern side.     Yaku Cyclone looked like so on March 7 th , 2023. (Footage provided by Senamhi)   Peru’s National Service of Meteorology and Hydrology  (Senamhi as in Spanish) reported on March 7 th , 2023, that Yaku (“water” in Quechuan) Cyclone had formed in front of the coast of Departments Tumbés, Piura, and Lambayequé. Read the report in Spanish .   It added it was about a non-organized system (set of meteorological phenomena) with tropical features that influenced in heavy to extreme rains fallen over these departments in Peruvian Northern, beginning March 2023. It forecast it was going to carry precipitations toward Departments La Libertad, Ancash, and Lima, located just to the south of the three first ones, for March-ending 2023.   The agency, that tracked Yaku since February-ending 2023, pointed out this meteorological phenomenon is not usual in front of Peruvian shor...