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Let’s stop being reactive – Dejemos de ser reactivos

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….

Ancient Amazonian Farmers Fortified Valuable Fertile Land

Heritage Daily: Ancient Amazonian communities fortified valuable land they had spent years making fertile to protect it from conflict, excavations show. Farmers in Bolivia constructed wooden defences around previously nutrient-poor tropical soils they had enriched over generations to keep them safe during times of social unrest. These long-term soil management strategies allowed Amazonians to grow…

Alerta hidrológica – Hydrological alert

ABI, Los Tiempos: Senamhi issues hydrological alert notice with possible overflows of five basins The National Meteorology and Hydrology Service (Senamhi) issued this Thursday the hydrological alert notice of orange priority until January 2 next with possible overflows of the Mamoré, Beni, Madre de Dios, Acre and Tahuamanu basins, in the Amazon region of the…

Early Bolivian Amazon humans – Primeros Bolivianos en el Amazonas

EFE reports via Opinion: Study reveals early Amazon humans cultivated plants The first humans to arrive in the Amazon, about 10,000 years ago, created thousands of forest islands and domesticated wild plants for consumption, according to an international study with researchers from the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), in Barcelona, published on Wednesday. in the magazine…

Homes collapse down hill in landslide

Multiple homes in La Paz, Bolivia, were destroyed after landslides caused them to collapse on Feb. 23 and 24. The landslides were caused by heavy rain, which loosened up the soil.