El Diario reports: Senamhi report Cochabamba, Beni and the north of La Paz are identified as the most vulnerable areas. From January to mid March there will be more rainfall. To date, the phenomenon of “El Niño” claimed the lives of three people and there are 282 families affected throughout the country. The threat of…
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Jhojan and Samuel qualify to the Robotics World competition
Pagina Siete reports: Jhojan Ramírez and Samuel Dorado, both 12 years old, are the youngest winners of the 2017 Bolivian Plurinational Student Olympiad (OCEPB) and will represent the country in the World Robot Olympiad (WRO) robotics competition, an event that brings together almost 20,000 teams of girls, boys and young people from more than 60…
China aspires to world leadership … failing big time with this atrocious and barbaric “preferences”
El Diario reports: Environmental activists Conviction for killing jaguars is insufficient Chinese citizens who sold skins and fangs of jaguars from Bolivia were sentenced to four and three years in prison. The sentence of four and three years of imprisonment for the couple of Chinese citizens, traffickers of jaguar fangs and other pieces of wild…
Bolivian observatory collects data as glaciers melt
Carlos Valdez, Associated Press for PA Home Page: LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – The snow appears to be pristine on the Andean peaks that loom above Bolivia’s capital, but even here ash and smog reach up to a remote plateau that is home to the world’s highest atmospheric observatory. It’s an ideal site for a…
Growing underground to avoid drought
BBC has produced a short but very interesting video, whose link you could find at the very end of this post: Growing underground to avoid drought The Altiplano in Bolivia is one of the largest and highest plateaus in the world. To protect their crops from drought, flash floods and increasing temperatures, some farmers are…
The world’s greatest biodiversity is in the Madidi Park, Bolivia!
Madidi MUST be protected at ALL COST! we and the world must let the coca caudillo in power to stop his delusional and absurd dam construction in El Bala and Chapete, we must preserve Madidi as is! The above opinion is from Bolivian Thoughts. EFE reports via El Diario, the photos are in the internet:…
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