Monica Machicao, Reuters: LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s Tuni glacier is disappearing faster than initially anticipated, according to scientists in the Andean nation, a predicament that will likely make worse water shortages already plaguing the capital La Paz, just 60 km away. Scientists from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), who monitor the Tuni…
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Bolivia: Climate change, inequality and resilience
[To read full text on both documents, click on every photo] Introduction In 2009, a team of Oxfam researchers travelled around Bolivia, collecting information about the country’s vulnerability to climate change and interviewing experts, government officials and NGOs, and most importantly, poor women and men, mostly from Indigenous communities, about their experiences of climate change…
Silala: gaffe of the previous Government – Silala: gafe del anterior Gobierno
Editorial from El Diario: Silala: gaffe of the previous Government The revelations that the previous Government recognized that the waters of the Silala spring flow naturally to Chilean territory, as it expresses – as it is said – the Bolivian reply to Chile’s allegations before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, would anticipate…
The 6 largest lakes in Bolivia
Bolivia.com reports: You can not stay without visiting these magical places for their beautiful landscapes and the myths around them. In the geography of Bolivia, there are innumerable lakes and lagoons that have particular characteristics. Many of its lakes are considered sacred, especially by indigenous ethnic groups. In this list, there are six of the…
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…
The Hague defines procedures for their ruling on the Silala
El Diario reports: Meeting with CIJ The International Court of Justice (ICJ) of The Hague will meet today with the agents of Bolivia, Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé, and of Chile, Claudio Grossman, with the purpose of defining the procedure of the trial that the neighboring country interposed by the waters of the Silala and the counterclaim…
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