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Learn everything you need to know for saying if you’ll feel hot.    By Axel Córdova, Manuel Espinoza, John Flores, Luis Olivares, Stepany Sánchez and Juan Sernaqué .   hotos by the authors.    PIURA CITY , Peru – Unlike another countries, there’s no much culture of checking out the weather forecast. However, it uses to be criticized, especially if it doesn’t match with current conditions.  Nevertheless, much people than we imagine are expectant about this information.  In Peru, there is an official agency in charge of monitoring , SENAMHI , and there are personalities at the market such as Abraham Levy , or even AccuWeather (used by FACTORTIERRA.NET) to know how dressing, when seeding, or if it’s worthy to have a BBQ. All data come from meteorological stations installed nationwide, including what National University of Piura (UNP as in Spanish) monitors in Miraflores, Castilla [pronounce “Castija”] District, watching what happ...

This environmental activist looks for his organization to be a world reference of reforestation.   Photographs and video provided by Guillermo Checa , distributed by FACTORTIERRA.     PIURA CITY, Peru – World forecasts about climate change are not good. All points out the humankind is accelerating the global warming as it’s stated a recent scientific consensus expressed in the so-called doomsday clock located in Chicago, Illinois.   It’s considered that planting trees could make a difference and gain time in favor of every alive being.   The key is inside two processes any tree makes – evapotranspiration and gas interchange . The first one consists in releasing the water that every vegetable consumes up to the air, turning it in steam. The second one means to converse the existent carbon dioxide around the atmosphere in oxygen . Add the shadow to this, especially at the cities.   Warming down Some sources suggest that an arb...

What disgusts can turn into what fertilizes.  SULLANA, Peru - While many people continue to see the residual water of the hydrobiological industry, disgusted and annoyed, quite few assume it as the raw material for obtaining an organic fertilizer without toxicity, with a high benefit for the crops where it is applied, plus can recuperate agriculturally overexploited soils or fertilizing  the ones with possibilities to enlarge the agricultural frontier. The discomfort is presented among the people and some authorities because the industry continues to use the urban sewerage for undoing the called effluents or residual water gotten after the whole process, so the Chira River continues to be polluted despite a treatment plant still postponing while bureaucratic details are adjusted between the Peruvian government and the municipal administration of Sullana Province . Until then, one solution is not pouring the effluents into the sewerage but bringing them to Gestió...

Two studs believe the tara can improve the life quality of a whole school, a town… or even a macro-region.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo . Photographs by Mako Fernandez and Ronald Zevallos. TUMÁN, Lambayequé – What do you do if you have a school about 660 feet away a factory expulsing smoke almost all the day, and the soil is mostly sandy, also being in a depression prone to floods? The answer may be waiting for anything, or worst, until once upon a day, an institution decides to move a whole town to break a world record… and it gets it.   Tumán is the capital city of the also-named district created in 1998 by the today convicted former Peru’s President Alberto Fujimori, inside Chiclayo Province , Lambayequé Department . The territory Surface is 50.2 sq mi, where about 27,000 people live. Tumán Town concentrates more than 23,000 inhabitants.   The most district’s territory is covered by sugarcane, about 27,182 acres entirely managed by empresa Agroind...

A tsunami that put in alert the whole Pacific was not officially warned in Peru – it caused a chain of disasters.   By Nelson Peñaherrera Castillo     FONOAFO’OU, Tonga – On Saturday, January 15 th , 2020, 17:27 Tonga Kingdom Time (0527 GMT), the Hunga Tonga -Hunga Ha’apai Volcano erupted twice in the 1-day lapse causing its structure to collapse into the sea, affecting immediately that South Pacific islander nation.   The column of wáter steam, ashes, and gases got to rise up to 15 miles toward the atmosphere. It was so massive that the Japanese satellite Himawari-8 could capture the cloud caused by the blast as well as the shock waves it generated, even.   According to KNTV station, operating in san Francisco Bay Area, California, the blast power was such as it altered the atmospheric pressure values across the Pacific Ocean – wee are talking about 5318 miles length between that Polinesia sector and that U.S. West Coast portion. ...