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...
by Equipo Glaciar | Jul 12, 2020 | Announcement
Last Friday, June 5 of this year, on the day of the environment, as Fundación Glaciares Chilenos we were part of the event “Glaciers and water security in days of health crisis”, where the main reason was the launch of a video and the primer...
by Francisca Albiña | Jul 9, 2020 | Photo Gallery
NASA has an impressive gallery of images that visualize the transcendental pace of climate and anthropogenic change for different areas. Below we show you some of the graphic comparisons of various phenomena that have occurred in glaciers and ice around the world....
by Nicolas Vivar Werner | Jul 6, 2020 | Science
Climate change is a fact, it is here to stay and with it all the consequences that it brings. The ecosystems most affected by these constant increases in temperatures have been the large frozen water reserves, the most transcendental and of great scientific interest...
