Editorial, Los Tiempos: Learning from the rains Few natural phenomena are as recurrent in our country as the floods that occur every year in the rainy season, and the way we deal with their consequences makes it necessary to stop seeing the problem as if it were a fatality imposed by designs beyond human control….
Category: Environment
Priorities – SERNAP – Prioridades
Los Tiempos: Director of Sernap gave Christmas-baskets to those related to MAS, but does not give working outfits to park rangers The Executive Director of the National Service of Protected Areas (Sernap), Teodoro Mamani Ibarra delivered Christmas baskets to the Single Trade Union Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (Csutcb). Despite the fact that the…
Green-Energy Race Draws an American Underdog to Bolivia’s Lithium
By Clifford Krauss, The New York Times [lectura en español]: SALAR DE UYUNI, Bolivia — The mission was quixotic for a small Texas energy start-up: Beat out Chinese and Russian industrial giants in unlocking mineral riches that could one day power tens of millions of electric vehicles. A team traveled from Austin to Bolivia in late…
In the Pantanal, Bolivia leads environmental preservation
The Newsroom: Concerned about the environmental impacts of paving the highway that crosses the region, residents of a town on the agricultural frontier pressured the city to create an integral conservation unit covering 37% of the municipality’s territory, including the most fertile land. Such a script is unlikely in Brazil, where agribusiness, contrary to the…
UTAMA: Estrena en el Sundance – Premieres at Sundance
Pagina Siete: Bolivian film Utama to premiere at Sundance Film Festival The film is the debut of Alejandro Loayza Grisi Bolivian cinema continues to give joy: the film Utama by Alejandro Loayza Grisi will premiere in January at the Sundance Festival, one of the most important in the world. It will compete in the World…
Mercury has catastrophic consequences on Bolivian indigenous peoples, UN experts say
Merco Press [For Spanish version Pagina Siete]: United Nations specialists have sent the Bolivian Government a “Letter of Allegations” after finding irregularities resulting from the unauthorized use of mercury which has brought up environmental and human rights consequences, it was reported Wednesday. UN rapporteurs Marcos Orellana (toxic substances and human rights) and José Francisco Cali…
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