by Iván Paredes Tamayo on 11 January 2022 | Translated by Max Radwin, Mongabay: More than 5,000 Indigenous people would be impacted by flooding from the construction of two dams in Bolivia, according to Indigenous organizations and environmentalists. Successive governments have mulled the Chepete-El Bala hydroelectric project for more than half a century, and the current administration of…
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Carreteras cerradas por lluvia – Roads closed due to rain
Pagina Siete: Five roads in three regions are closed due to the rains The Bolivian Highway Administration (ABC) reported on the closure of three sections in the department of Beni, a fourth in the north of La Paz and the fifth in Santa Cruz. In Beni, the sections closed are: the Santo Domingo-Monte Grande highway,…
NO a la represa/No to the dam: Chepete-El Bala
ANF, El Diario: Defense Committee rejects the Chepete-El Bala project Through a public statement, the Committee for the Defense of Amazonian life in the Madera River Basin rejected the implementation of the Chepete-El Bala hydroelectric project as an ecocidal threat, that is, of destruction of nature. Denounced that the government of Luis Arce Catacora intends…
Equipo boliviano triunfa en concurso internacional de biología sintética – Bolivian team triumphs in international synthetic biology contest
Pagina Siete: The project that the group, made up of more than 60 people, presented was a biosensor that detects arsenic in water (VIDEO). Bolivia won the gold medal in the international iGEM competition on synthetic biology. The project that the group of more than 60 people presented is related to a biosensor that detects…
World’s highest ski resort a Bolivian memory
PhysOrg (para leer en español, use el link de abajo): Bernardo Guarachi’s eyes light up as he reminisces about the glory days of Chacaltaya—once the highest ski resort in the world but now a crumbling relic to climate change in the Bolivian Andes. “Today, it’s a cemetery,” said Guarachi, pointing to the rusted poles and…
‘This sun isn’t normal’: Extreme UV radiation is broiling Bolivia’s highlands
Reuters, CNN: (La Paz)Bolivia’s highlands city of La Paz has been hit by an unusual heatwave, with levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation soaring off the charts, exacerbated by unusually low levels of cloud cover some experts link to climate change.Levels of UV radiation have at times in recent weeks hit 21 on a scale that…
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