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The Australian
February 2, 2018
Anne-Maree Hicks - Svinafellsjokull Glacier, Icela Exploring Svinafellsjokull Glacier, Iceland. Picture: Anne-Maree Hicks. T+I, December 2-3 ... Juliet Bates The flags of the Dakar Rally monumen PIC OF THE WEEK: Flags at the Dakar Rally monument near Uyuni in southern Bolivia, Picture: Juliet Bates.
Phys.Org
June 22, 2017
Scientists studying global warming recently climbed Bolivia's towering Mount Illimani and extracted samples of glacier ice packed with thousands of years of climate data. ... Chappellaz said in March that the archives of climate data at the bottom of glaciers are in danger due to global warming.
The Guardian
June 21, 2017
A team of international scientists are transporting samples of ice from a melting glacier in Bolivia to Antarctica, for study and preservation before the glacier disappears. The international “Ice Memory” expedition of 15 scientists took samples from the glacier on Illimani mountain in the Andes and will storeÃÂ ...
GlacierHub
October 11, 2017
The Illimani glacier as seen from the Bolivian city of La Paz (Source: ... glaciers and emerging environmental crises in Bolivia like drought.
Teton Gravity Research
September 20, 2017
Bolivia isn't necessarily a top ski destination. The country's only resort, Cerro Chacaltaya, stopped operations due to the receding glacier in 2009, a haunting ...
environmentalresearchweb
September 17, 2017
In South America, the glaciers of Bolivia lost almost 50% of their mass in ... It is time, the scientists argue, for some serious thinking: glacier loss cannot ... alarms in Greenland, central Asia, the Antarctic, and the Bolivian Andes.
Phys.Org
June 22, 2017
Bolivian glacier samples ready for global ice archives ... Scientists studying global warming recently climbed Bolivia's towering Mount ... ice cores from the world's key endangered glaciers," according to the group's website, ...
The Guardian
June 21, 2017
A team of international scientists are transporting samples of ice from a melting glacier in Bolivia to Antarctica, for study and preservation before ...
The Guardian
November 28, 2016
Shrinking glaciers cause state-of-emergency drought in Bolivia ... a tanker truck provided by officials of the Bolivian public water company, Epsas. ... One glacier on Chacaltaya mountain – which rises above El Alto and which ...
The Independent
October 27, 2016
Our study shows that Bolivian glaciers have shrunk by around 43 per ... Some have already gone – in 2009, the Chacaltaya glacier, 30km from ...
Climate Home
October 24, 2016
Rapid glacier melt threatens Bolivia water supplies, homes ... generation – the glaciers of Bolivia shrank by 43%, according to new research. ... Researchers from two British universities and a Bolivian colleague examined ...
InsideClimate News
August 25, 2017
SANTIAGO K, Bolivia — Someone's nearly always lived in Santiago K. Cupped in the Bolivian highlands that border Chile, the small village is littered by centuries of conquest and expansion: ... Whole glaciers have melted.
Indian Country Today Media Network
August 13, 2017
Bolivia's Chacaltaya Glacier, at one time one of the highest-altitude ski resorts on earth, no longer exists, threatening water and power suppliesÃÂ ...
GlacierHub
August 4, 2017
Today, these rare equatorial glaciers of Asia are nearly gone. ... in 2010 that they had watched the glacier “drop 12 inches in just two weeks.” Tropical glaciers— 99 percent of which are found in the Andes of Bolivia, Columbia,ÃÂ ...
NDTV
July 31, 2017
Others also boast the title - from Nepal's Dho Tarap to Bolivia's Santa ... Ganges and Mekong, which are fed by Himalayan glaciers - is at stake.
Phys.Org
June 22, 2017
Bolivian glacier samples ready for global ice archives ... Scientists studying global warming recently climbed Bolivia's towering Mount ... ice cores from the world's key endangered glaciers," according to the group's website,ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
June 21, 2017
A team of international scientists are transporting samples of ice from a melting glacier in Bolivia to Antarctica, for study and preservation beforeÃÂ ...
The Guardian
November 28, 2016
Shrinking glaciers cause state-of-emergency drought in Bolivia ... a tanker truck provided by officials of the Bolivian public water company, Epsas. ... One glacier on Chacaltaya mountain – which rises above El Alto and whichÃÂ ...
Climate Home
October 24, 2016
Rapid glacier melt threatens Bolivia water supplies, homes ... generation – the glaciers of Bolivia shrank by 43%, according to new research. ... Researchers from two British universities and a Bolivian colleague examinedÃÂ ...
Science Daily
October 20, 2016
Glacier and glacier lake in the Bolivian Andes. ... glacier change in Bolivia, to better understand how receding glaciers could affect communitiesÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 31, 1999
Bolivia has announced new programs to tackle the effects of climate ... of the country's glaciers, pushing many to migrate to urban centers.
Open Democracy
March 24, 2017
The gesture is the same: the criminalization of migration, racializing crime by linking it, in the words of Interior Minister Patricia Bullrich, to international drug networks, and their representatives in the shape of immigrants from Peru or Bolivia ...
GlacierHub
March 23, 2017
Dirk Hoffmann, a professor at Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences in Germany and an expert in glacier change and glacier lake outburst flood risk in the Bolivian Andes, explained in an interview with GlacierHub that the immense population growth ...
The Quint
March 22, 2017
The World Meteorological Organisation's annual report on climate change in 2016 summarises this man-made crisis ominously: "We are now in truly uncharted territory.
Yahoo News
March 22, 2017
The World Meteorological Organisation's annual report on climate change in 2016 summarises this man-made crisis ominously: "We are now in truly uncharted territory.
teleSUR English
March 22, 2017
For World Water Day, teleSUR delves deeper into the current crisis and looks at how access to water in Bolivia has long been a political, social and economic battle and is increasingly wrought with environmental challenges brought on by climate change.
Socialist Project
March 19, 2017
Through the prism of Bolivian history, Red October and From Rebellion to Reform , meanwhile, tackled questions of Latin America's subordinate incorporation into the world market, the historical formation of capitalist states in the region, and the ...
Phys.Org
March 19, 2017
An international team will set out in May on a gruelling trip up Bolivia's 6,400-metre Illimani peak to drill three ice cores from its crowning glacier. These will be preserved for posterity, along with cores from other glaciers, in the natural freezer ...
Inside Pulse
March 16, 2017
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is celebrating its 20th lineup with a mix of films that deal with world events, musical moments and fears of the future.
Co.Exist
March 13, 2017
While global climate change can be studied from glaciers anywhere, each individual glacier also contains local and regional data.
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
March 11, 2017
The people of La Paz, Bolivia, now have no water because their glacier has quickly disappeared. The U.S. Navy (my employer during Vietnam) can tell you how they are driving vehicles in water on their bases in Norfolk and Diego Garcia at times.
CityMetric
March 8, 2017
Only 3 per cent is fresh and can be used for farming and drinking, and in any case most of this is frozen in glaciers and polar ice caps.
Simon Fraser University News
March 3, 2017
Scientists have long suspected that ice caps formed repeatedly in the tropical Andes during the late Pliocene, but only evidence of a single glaciation was known until now.
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (blog)
March 1, 2017
There are the risks of climbing to glaciers in the Andes, trekking through a blizzard to a Chinese research base in Antarctica or going on patrol with a Special Operations squad in the favelas of Manaus.
Common Dreams
March 1, 2017
The rise of the sea, following melting glaciers, has already threatened the United States coastline. ... For example, Brazil, Bolivia and dozens of companies are expected to stop deforestation in the Amazon region by 2020 and end it by 2030. Norway has ...
The Guardian
March 1, 2017
Not only could Bolivia have lessened the impacts of the drought with good planning, but it has exacerbated the effects of climate change by backing damaging developments, says Solon.
GlacierHub
February 28, 2017
The mysterious Moche civilization originated on the northern coast of Peru in 200-800 AD. It was known for its metal work, considered by some to be the most accomplished of any Andean civilization.
TravelersToday
February 21, 2017
Spanning from Alaska to South America, you would have to get past jungles and glaciers and mountains before you get to your destination.
BBC News
February 21, 2017
He found himself on a Wikipedia page listing 19 unrecovered flight recorders, and one immediately caught his attention - Eastern Airlines Flight 980, which had crashed in Bolivia in 1985, as it was coming in to land in the capital, La Paz. ... It turns ...
Mirror.co.uk
February 17, 2017
Drought and water scarcity have become recurring problems in Bolivia over the past decade, but the situation has been "particularly alarming" since 2015.
India Today
February 14, 2017
In November, the South American country declared the state of emergency after residents of Bolivia's second-largest city El Alto briefly held authorities with a local water-distribution company hostage to demand the government explain its plans to ...
Disciples of Flight
February 13, 2017
In October 1985, air safety investigator Greg Feith from the NTSB-led a team of US Investigators with Bolivian mountain guides to the crash site in order to examine the wreckage on-site.
Secolo Trentino
February 12, 2017
Il triste primato lo detiene la grande ed industrializzata America che vede minacciata la sicurezza del Parco naturale di Yellowstone e il parco della pace Waterton Glacier International; segue l'Etiopia con il Parco naturale Simien, l'India ed il ...
Christian Science Monitor
February 12, 2017
The report suggests that, if current trends continue, the melting of glaciers in the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes will accelerate to the point where most glaciers below 5,000 meters will disappear entirely, disrupting water supplies and affecting ...
Apollo Magazine
February 9, 2017
The sounds of glaciers melting ('dying,' says McDonald) periodically fill the air from At the Edge of Visibility, a four-minute film shot on a voyage inside the Arctic Circle.
Phys.Org
February 8, 2017
View of the Nevado Illimani glacier in Bolivia from La Paz. Credit: Paul Scherrer ... Through analysis of ice from the Illimani glacier in the Bolivian Andes, they found out that by around 700 BC, copper was already being mined and smelted in South ...
GlacierHub
February 3, 2017
In South America, the tropical glaciers of the Andes have been shrinking at an alarming rate, leaving the local communities at risk of losing an important water source.
Earth Island Journal
February 1, 2017
In 2013, reflecting a longstanding Bolivian tradition, the Urus marched on La Paz because, in the words of Urus leader Eriberto Choque Flores, if things don't change "we will disappear.
GlacierHub
February 1, 2017
Malia Obama, the eldest daughter of former President Barack Obama, recently visited the glaciers of Peru and Bolivia during a gap year before entering Harvard as an undergraduate this fall. Her guides were ... Eduardo Quispe,who works as a mountain ...
GlacierHub
January 30, 2017
Dwindling Glaciers Lead to Potential Carbon Sinks ... On the Matsch glacier forefield (Alps, Italy) we measured over two growing seasons the Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) of a typical grassland, dominated by the C3 Festuca halleri All.
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