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...
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...
by Francisca Albiña | Jun 18, 2020 | Science
Introduction to get acquainted with the terms We all know that climate change contributes to adverse global warming, but the truth is, to know how it really influences and to what extent, we must consider many factors, to try to predict these changes. A key variable...
by Richards Zamorano Ormeño | Jun 1, 2020 | Science
Glaciers are powerful agents of erosion, which have profoundly altered the earth’s surface for thousands of years, however the mechanisms that govern glacial erosion (wear caused by the movement of ice on the earth’s surface) have not been fully...
by Alfredo Soto Ortega | May 25, 2020 | Science
The Antarctic Ocean, also called the Southern Ocean, the Antarctic Glacial Ocean or the Antarctic Glacial Sea, is an oceanic extension whose existence as it is disputed. In general, its existence is recognized from the coasts of Antarctica to 55° South, the...
by Francisca Albiña | Apr 9, 2020 | Science
Hundreds of thousands of years ago, the earth coexisted with various already extinct animals, flora, microorganisms, bacteria and viruses in an environment that is probably very different from the one we inhabit today, and of which we know little. Our planet is an...