University of Utah, EurekAlert!: El aislamiento colectivo voluntario por sí solo fue ineficaz para mitigar la propagación de la enfermedad infecciosa en comunidades indígenas remotas y de pequeña escala. La intervención médica directa es necesaria durante las pandemias globales. Los pueblos indígenas han sufrido desproporcionadamente por la actual pandemia de COVID-19. Los factores sistémicos, incluida…
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La exploración de petróleo y gas amenaza el suministro de agua del Chaco boliviano | Oil and gas exploration threatens Bolivian Chaco water supply
Mongabay y El Deber: por Iván Paredes Tamayo, Nelfi Fernández Reyes el 24 de Agosto 2023 | Traducido por Sydney Sims El Parque Nacional Aguaragüe, ubicado al sur de Bolivia, sufre la explotación de hidrocarburos, que se realiza en esta región desde hace más de 100 años. Los suelos y las fuentes de agua del parque se están contaminando…
Miners seek green light for illegal mining – Mineros buscan luz verde para la minería ilegal
ANF, El Diario: Experts warn The massive march of the miners affiliated with the National Federation of Mining Cooperatives of Bolivia (Fencomin) should not be an excuse to negotiate the natural heritage or to ask for the green light in illegal mining exploitation, maintain the director of the Bolivian Documentation and Information Center (Cedib), Óscar…
100 Years After Its Discovery, We May Know What Killed This Bolivian Mummy | 100 años después de su descubrimiento, podemos saber qué mató a esta momia boliviana
Ben Taub, IFL Science: A disease that’s currently on the rise may have been present in Pre-Hispanic South America. A mummified woman discovered over a century ago in Bolivia may have suffered from a fungal infection commonly known as Valley Fever. While the pathogen usually causes non-fatal respiratory systems, in this case, it appears to have destroyed the…
Amboró: Water = Food Safety | Agua = Seguridad Alimentaria
El Mundo: The “Amboró” park guarantees water for Food Safety VITAL: LIDEMA considers the Amboró park as the head of a vital biological corridor for the region because it captures water and at least five rivers originate from it. In flora, it has 5,000 species of native plants and fauna more than 1,236 species The…
Santa Cruz goes up in the alarm scale for forest fires: the orange alert was activated | Santa Cruz sube en la escala de alarma por incendios forestales: se activó la alerta naranja
El Deber: Currently, 6 fires are reported distributed in the municipalities of: San José, San Antonio de Lomerío, Warnes and the metropolitan area The winds above 60 kilometers per hour that have been recorded since Thursday began to wreak havoc when the situation in August worsened, the month in which the alarms for forest fires…
Bolivian Thoughts | Pensamientos Bolivianos (Bilingual/Bilingüe) 