Editorial, Los Tiempos: 21060: the validity of a demonized decree Repealed in parts since the first year of the MAS government and a symbol of neoliberalism so repudiated when it comes to proclaiming the virtues of a diffuse socialism, Decree 21060, promulgated 36 years ago, maintains today an evident validity in the stability results of…
Category: Environment
Resolvió un problema matemático de números primos – Beimar Wilfredo López Subia – Solved a prime number math problem
El Diario: Mathematician invited by several universities for doctorate The university student Beimar Wilfredo López Subia solved a mathematical problem of prime numbers that was investigated by various intellectuals worldwide and for more than a century. He is Bolivian, 27 years old, and is in the ninth semester of a civil engineering degree at the…
Indigenous people question misuse of prior consultation for Chepete and El Bala projects – Indígenas cuestionan mal uso de consulta previa para proyectos Chepete y El Bala
Silvana Vincenti, El Deber: The Commonwealth of Indigenous Communities of the Beni, Tuichi and Quiquibey Rivers issued a statement on these hydroelectric plants, which have already been rejected, and which they believe will cut off their rivers The Commonwealth of Indigenous Communities of the Beni, Tuichi and Quiquibey Rivers, an organization that was created in…
Fires rage in Bolivia’s Chiquitania region
Ivan Paredes, Mongabay: Authorities are battling an outbreak of wildfires in eastern Bolivia’s Chiquitania region. Satellite data show fires have intensified over the past two weeks and are invading protected areas. The fires are destroying habitat spared by Bolivia’s extreme fire season of 2019. Wildfires in Bolivia are often associated with burning for agriculture, and…
Wildfires devastate Bolivian nature reserves
Phys.org: Wildfires, mostly started intentionally, have scorched almost 600,000 hectares of land in eastern Bolivia already this year, authorities said. On Monday night there were 20 active fires in Santa Cruz state affecting seven protected areas. The government said 200,000 hectares (495,000 acres) had burned in just two days. Most of the fires are in…
Forest fires ravage thousands of hectares of land in Bolivia
Syndicated Content, WHBL: By Danny Ramos and Reuters TV LA PAZ (Reuters) – Fires have laid waste to around 150,000 hectares (579 square miles)of forests and grasslands so far this year in the Bolivian lowlands, the country’s authorities have said, with firefighters battling scattered blazes since last week in eastern Santa Cruz. The fires spread…
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