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July 17, 2012 | GlobalPost
Latin America's Climate Conundrum
Latin America now faces the challenge of coping with the potentially devastating impacts of climate change.
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Bolivia
May 14, 2012 | Indian Country Today
Bolivia: Sacred Lake Titicaca is Being Drowned by Pollution
The Incas believed that the god Viracocha rose from the waters of Lake Titicaca and created mankind. Now, mankind's trash is endangering the waters of the sacred lake.
March 31, 2012 | The Christian Science Monitor
Pollution Threatens South America's Lake Titicaca
The booming urban populations of Bolivia and Peru are threatening Lake Titicaca, as well as the indigenous populations that depend on it.
March 02, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Lake Titicaca: Can Small Communities Fight Big Cities that Pollute?
In Bolivia, urban growth poses a major pollution threat to Lake Titicaca, South America's largest freshwater lake. Some downstream communities are trying to fight back.
January 25, 2012 | Pulitzer Center
Dry Toilets: The Answer to a Bolivian City's Sewage Crisis
A new kind of toilet may be the salvation of Lake Titicaca. It's sanitary and it may even produce compost suitable for growing food.
January 17, 2012 | The Guardian
In Pictures: Urban Population Boom Threatens Lake Titicaca
With urban populations increasing, Lake Titicaca is being polluted with waste from booming cities in Peru and Bolivia.
January 12, 2012 | The Guardian
Bolivia: Urban Population Boom Threatens Lake Titicaca
South America's most famous lake is being polluted by increasing levels of waste from fast-growing cities, according to locals, environmentalists and politicians.
December 08, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
Caught in a Vise: An Indigenous Fisherman in Peru
Marcelino Coila Choque, a local fisherman, is concerned that over-fishing and water contamination will threaten the future of Lake Titicaca's resources.
November 23, 2011 | Pulitzer Center
Bolivia: El Alto's Contaminated Waters
El Alto is one of the fastest-growing cities in South America, but its infrastructure is lagging. The city’s wastewater is piped directly into rivers that connect to Lake Titicaca.
December 07, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Bolivia: Climate Change Delegates Rally for International Climate Justice Tribunal
Delegates to the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth gathered in Cochabamba, Bolivia in April 2010 to discuss the need for a International Climate Justice Tribunal to prosecute crimes committed against the Earth.
July 30, 2010 | Outer Voices
Agua Blanca: Hydroelectric Power in Peril Due to Melting Glaciers
A hydroelectric power plant changed life for the small town of Agua Blanca. But the shrinking of the glaciers in Bolivia is threatening the greatest source of power for most of the country, and the only one for Agua Blanca.
May 28, 2010 | Pulitzer Center
Ecuador: Dead Meat
For anybody who needed convincing, the Deepwater Horizon accident has proven that tapping the Earth for oil can be hazardous for workers and the environment.