The shadow of mercury: Charque’s fight against mining pollution in the Bolivian Amazon.
After a two-hour boat ride on the Beni River from the port of Rurrenabaque and a 20-minute walk through th... Read More
A new crisis has hit the environmental sector in Bolivia. On Thursday 16 January, the director of the National Service of Protected Areas (Sernap), Johnson Jiménez, was dismissed following a series of... Read More
For the inhabitants of El Playón and Mampuján, the dream of having drinking water shall finally come true in 2025.
The people of San José de El Playón and Mampuján, districts of Bolivia’s munic... Read More
Politics, turmoil and hope… In 2024, Latin America continued facing chronic issues of deforestation, ecosystem contamination, violence, habitat loss and political turmoil. Changes brought on by ... Read More
The demand for lithium for EV batteries is driving a mining boom in an arid Andes region of Argentina, Chile, and Bolivia, home to half the world’s reserves. Hydrologists are warning the mines could d... Read More
Bolivia has faced significant challenges in managing its water resources, with social unrest and conflict adding to the existing difficulties. The so-called water wars in 2000 and 2006 in Cochabamba a... Read More
In Sucre, the de jure capital city of Bolivia, the Cumbre Plurinacional del Agua para la Vida (Plurinational Water for Life Summit) has been taking place last Sunday, 29 September.
During the summit, ... Read More
Once clean enough to drink, the Andean lake Uru Uru was poisoned by mining pollution and urban waste. Plastic waste stretches as far as the eye can see, the water is tinged black or brown, and the ste... Read More
