Chacaltaya Journal: Boliviaâs Only Ski Resort Is Facing a Snowless Future
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Scientists say global warming could extinguish Boliviaâs skiing tradition when its only ski run disappears forever in a few years.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Bolivia's leftist President Evo Morales and opposition governors struggled to overcome their bitter differences at talks early on Tuesday but he said that South America's poorest nation should stay one country.
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Guenther Hujara, director of the men's World Cup, says there isn't enough sponsorship money for Colorado resorts to hold some of the ski races that have been scrapped by warm weather and a lack of snow in Europe.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 25 -- A lawsuit to be unsealed Wednesday in a U.S. District Court in Maryland seeks civil damages against Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada -- the former president of Bolivia now living in exile in Chevy Chase -- for allegedly presiding over a 2003 government crackdown that left 67 civili...
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LA PAZ, Bolivia  - Indigenous groups and  independent candidates were poised to win local elections in  Bolivia on Sunday, while support for traditional parties sank  further after a popular revolt last year toppled former  president Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada.
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The recent snowstorms that left millions without power in Southern China underscored the countryâs heavy dependence on coal and laid bare the glaring inadequacies of its production and distribution cycle.
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COCHABAMBA, Bolivia  - Bolivia's president closed a two-day regional summit on Saturday by saying a South American community of nations modeled on the European Union could become a reality in five years.
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CHRISTMAS IN THE DESERT: There is no snow, though it hailed briefly in parts of Iraq last week and the temperature has dipped below freezing in recent days.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Weird weather and global warming are claiming a place at the top of the nation's political agenda these days. But while policymakers debate what to do about them, the ski industry already has adjusted its sails.
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Several political organizations in Bolivia are pushing to preserve endangered traditions like Tinku, an ancient ritual once widespread throughout the Andean world.
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Hundreds of millions of livelihoods will be affected by the world's declining ice and snow cover, the UN warns.
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Up and down the icy spine of South America, the glaciers are melting, the white mantle of the Andes Mountains washing away at an ever faster rate.
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Tourists and political pilgrims can now follow "Che's trail" in Bolivia, which traces Ernesto Guevara's fatal attempt to export the Cuban revolution to one of Latin America's poorest countries.
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LA PAZ, Bolivia -- Andrea Mamani stood in front of her students the other day and started the afternoon lesson by pointing to her head.
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Scientists say the rate snow is fading on the largest glacier chain in the tropics, Peru's Cordillera Blanca, indicates global warming is accelerating and there's water trouble ahead. By the Associated Press.
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As unusually cold weather blankets much of central and southern China in snow and closes roads, one student had a bright idea about how to get home for the Lunar New Year holiday -- he would ski.
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The Associated Press  SANTIAGO, Chile   A five-acre glacial lake in Chile's southern Andes has disappeared - and scientists want to know why.