With temperatures falling to minus 9.4 Fahrenheit in this year's Southern Hemisphere winter, so far 50,000 alpacas have died this season. Authorities fear up 300,000 of the animals could perish if ...

SAN ANTONIO DE PUTINA, Peru (AP) – Life for the thousands of indigenous families raising alpacas and sheep in Peru's southern Andes has become a nightmare amid a bitter cold wave that has killed tens ...

The once-verdant mountain pastures where alpacas graze are drying out from climate change; scientists, herders, and activists are rallying to find solutions. Alina Surquislla Gomez cradles a baby ...

SAN ANTONIO DE PUTINA, Peru (AP) — After three days of heavy snowfall and bone-chilling temperatures, Mateo Mullisaca watches as one of his alpacas falls to the ground in agony on his farm almost ...

The government of Peru has declared a state of emergency in the southern Andes after brutally low temperatures killed tens of thousands of alpacas, according to The Associated Press. The government is ...