Tag: Climate change

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 19:39 UTC

  Chile surveying glaciers to gauge extent of climate change impact

  

  Academics from around the world are taking an interest in Chile’s glaciers. A team of Canadian, French and Chilean experts have been working in Punta Negra, located in the Laguna Negra section of Cajon de Maipo (south of Santiago) since 2003, following both covered glaciers and those known as rock glaciers.

• Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 16:21 UTC

  Bolivia organizes grassroots alternative to UN climate change

  

  Delegates are gathering in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba for a grassroots alternative to last year's UN climate change summit in Copenhagen. The meeting will also celebrate the rights of Mother Earth on 22 April.