Restoring the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta: Reversing a Century of Colombian Tragedy
Can science and tradition finally help heal the region’s peoples and bring balance to its biodiversity-rich waters and mangrove forests? This article was originally published by The Revelator When I visited the floating palafito fishing village of Nueva...
The Kamëntšá Cosmovision: An Intricate Reciprocal Connection Between Mother Earth and Health
In Episode One of Cosmology & Pandemic, “Colombia: The Body as Territory”, the profound cosmovision of the Kamëntšá, and the interrelated health of their culture and ancestral lands, played a central role. Indigenous Peoples have a well-developed, centuries-long...
Páramos at Risk: The Interconnected Threats to a Biodiversity Hotspot
The pressures of climate change and human land use could lead to the disappearance of unique biodiversity and vital ecological services. DANIEL HENRYK RASOLT This article was originally published by The Revelator On a recent, pre-pandemic journey to the High Andes of...
Colombia’s Dynamic Rivers: Integrated Interpretations and the Rights of Nature
Integrated interpretations of rivers as vital and interconnected living and evolving entities have extensive practical application — from their revered preservation throughout Indigenous territories, to modern adaptations of holistic Indigenous worldviews, to advances...
Critically Endangered Colombian Glaciers Face Extinction
Tropical mountain glaciers are rapidly melting around the world (up to 99% are in South America), but those that remain in Colombia could be entirely gone before 2050. Colombia has six remaining designated glaciers, in four distinct glacierized areas. The four areas...
The Temperature-Driven Disappearance of the World’s Tropical Glaciers
Glaciers have shaped the landscapes and mindscapes of much of the Earth and its inhabitants, ever since parts of the planet were cool and wet enough to start forming ice masses. But the Earth’s current Late Cenozoic collection of glaciers (which first started forming...
Dr. Narco
I arrived in La Paz for the second time in my travels in late October, 2012. This was at the very tail end of the climbing season in Bolivia, and I had low expectations for finding climbing possibilities and reliable climbing partners. On my second day in La Paz,...