El Diario reports: Ministry of Defense 4,436 families were affected and had to leave their flooded homes to protect their safety, according to minister Javier Zavaleta Government suspended solidarity flights and continues search for missing persons in Caranavi Stabilization work in the Armas bridge sector, in the Santa Bárbara – Caranavi section, route that was…
Category: Environment
Bolivia’s Jurassic walk of fame
Haxie MEYERS-BELKIN reports for France 24: to watch the video, please use link below: In Bolivia, dinosaur remains attract tourists from across the globe. A stone’s throw from the city of Sucre, a cliffside features the largest concentration of dinosaur footsteps in the world. But concerns over erosion have led park officials to seek UNESCO…
They discover the procedure to stop the deterioration of Samaipata rock
Pagina Siete reports: Experts in conservation-restoration will apply technology on the reliefs, so that the stone is regenerated and prevents the absorption of water, allowing the transpiration of the rock. The Fort of Samaipata receives 70,000 tourists every year, according to the local mayor’s office. Photo: Pinterest The largest carved stone in the world is…
After failures to attract investments, what?
An Editorial from El Diario: The government, with a view to obtaining investments, on both the part of United States, England, Germany and Canada, organized meetings with businessmen and capitalists in each capital of those countries and tried to encourage them and give them assurances so that they invest financial capital, technology and human capital…
Bolivian Mudslide Sweeps Cars Off Highway
The Weather Channel reports: Intense rain caused a mudslide Saturday [02/02/2019] in Bolivia that swept a half dozen cars off a highway and injured several people, officials said. The mudslide happened about 7:50 a.m. local time at a site called Puente Armas on a mountainous highway that runs between the Bolivian capital, La Paz, and…
Where unsustainable mining once reigned, ‘radical change’ beckons
Olivia Desmit for Human Nature, a blog from Conservation International: In Potosí, Bolivia, most families survive on less than US$ 2 per day. The local indigenous community in this Andean city is economically dependent on mining — an infamously grueling and hazardous way of life here — but a nearby mine, the country’s largest, will close in…
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