by Hans Fernández Navarro | Aug 18, 2020 | Report
Art has been a powerful tool to reconstruct what has happened to glaciers and mountains around the planet in the last ~ 700 years. In addition to allowing a graphic window to the past, art has made it possible to understand how the perception of Western society...
by Francisca Albiña | Aug 14, 2020 | Announcement
The American website, which depends on the Earth Institute of Columbia University, detailed the work carried out by our NGO and highlighted the effort we make with the care of glaciers in Chile. At the end of July this year, the blog specialized in glaciers,...
by Francisco Martínez Vidal | Aug 11, 2020 | Report
To be immersed in one of the most beautiful corners of Tierra del Fuego Island, a place secluded from the world, and which for a long time was one of the best kept secrets of the Kawésqar. For those who know the Magallanes region in Chile, the name of that place is...
by José Pinedo Ried | Aug 3, 2020 | Interviews
Camilo Rada is a prominent Chilean scientist, mountaineer, and explorer. He holds a degree in Astronomy from the Pontifical Catholic University, a Master’s in Geophysics and a PhD in Glaciology from the Canadian University of British Columbia. He currently works...
by Francisca Diaz Sánchez | Jul 31, 2020 | Movies and Documentaries
El Último Hielero ~ The Last Ice Merchant ~, a documentary released in 2012 and directed by Sandy Patch; tells the story of Baltazar Ushca, the last icemaker from Chimborazo in Ecuador. A man who at that time was 67 years old and no more than 1.5 meters tall,...
by Francisca Albiña | Jul 28, 2020 | Notes
Chile, a mountainous country, where 70% of the population is supplied with mountain water. Glaciers represent an essential and strategic public good for society, as natural reserves of fresh water in the context of global warming, allowing basic levels of water...
by Sebastian Parra | Jul 21, 2020 | Report
Tierra del Fuego south of the Estrecho de Magallanes, separated from continental America, north of the maligned Drake Sea and the mythical Cabo de Hornos, the largest island in South America is unknown to many to this day. Few are those who have had the privilege of...
by René Hernández Tapia | Jul 13, 2020 | Glacier Law
COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION ON PROTECTION OF NATURE AND GLACIERS Since 2006, there have been initiatives for the creation of a Glacier Protection Law, which have failed mainly due to the lack of support from the governments of the day, since our political system leaves to...
