Jose Pablo Criales, Opinion: The second largest lake in Bolivia made headlines in 2015 because it completely dried up. A good rainy season has returned the water to their basins, but rising temperatures, mining pollution and the diversion of their rivers threaten the lives of their people forever. Brake! –Cristina Mamani suddenly shouts– Stop, we…
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Environmental deaths that should have been avoided | Muertes ambientales que debieron evitarse
Editorial, Página Siete: The Concepción lagoon, an idyllic place in the Chiquitania of Santa Cruz, has ceased to exist. Had no funeral or death certificate. The Bolivian State let her die with indifference. Ñembi Guasu is a “new” conservation area in the Chaco” (it is three years old) and it is the second in importance,…
Bolivian lake becomes an arid, trash-covered wasteland
Gabriel Romano, La Prensa Latina: Oruro, Bolivia, Apr 1 (efe-epa).- Gazing at Lake Uru Uru in the southwestern Bolivian province of Oruro, the thought occurs that no amount of effort would be sufficient to reverse the environmental degradation which has left 90 percent of the lake bed a dried-up waste piled high with plastic and…
Bolivia and Peru vow to clean up polluted Lake Titicaca
Dan Collyns reports for America CGTN: Straddling the borders of Peru and Bolivia, is South America’s largest freshwater lake — Lake Titicaca. But today the once pristine body of water is blighted by pollution and it is a problem that both nations want to address. CGTN’s Dan Collyns repors from Copacabana, on the Lake’s Bolivian…
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