by Francisca Albiña | Jan 27, 2023 | Movies and Documentaries
It all began as a thesis project in 2018, which was taking shape and mutating in this vivid and shocking documentary released in 2019. Misión Huaytapallana, is the debut of the American director Mark Gregory and after its success, together with the audiovisual...
by Marcos Gómez Cole | Oct 21, 2021 | Notes
The first time a human being walked on a glacier, it probably dates back to the pristine times when our species began to populate the planet. Since then, we have not stopped approaching and venturing into glaciers, motivated by the most diverse ends; scientists,...
by Nicolás Leblanc Castro | Jan 28, 2021 | Report
Alto Maipo is a large hydroelectric project owned by the American company AES Gener S.A., and it’s located in the southeast of the city of Santiago, in San José de Maipo commune, in the upper basin of the Maipo river. The purpose of the project is to produce...
by Nicolas Vivar Werner | Oct 21, 2020 | Report
Today, October 21st, 2020, is the day of the Magallanes y Antártica Chilena region, which commemorates 500 years since the discovery and crossing of the, at the time, called “Todos los Santos” canal. This discovery and expedition were led by the Portuguese explorer...
by Nicolás Leblanc Castro | Oct 1, 2020 | Notes
Pascua Lama is a mining project of the Canadian company Barrick Gold through its affiliate company named Compañía Minera Nevada S.A., located in the middle of the Andean Mountain Range, on the border between Chile and Argentina, which consists of an open-pit mining...
by Equipo Glaciar | Aug 28, 2020 | Notes
There already are several communities in this country, beginning to lift restrictions under the deconfinement plan. However, there is a series of regulations concerning practicing outdoor sports during the Transition Stage. This Tuesday, August 11, the Ministry of...
by René Hernández Tapia | Aug 25, 2020 | Notes
It is not unknown to anyone that in Chile there are controversies of a socio-environmental nature, cases such as the emblematic energy project “Alto Maipo” in the Metropolitan Region and the mining project “Pascua Lama” in Atacama, are...
by Francisca Albiña | Aug 20, 2020 | Science
Glaciers of the central Andes of Chile are a crucial freshwater resource for down-stream communities for drinking water or water for agriculture, mining or industry. Normally, the mountain water supply is largely sourced from the melting of the winter...
