High on Bolivia's semi-arid Andean plains at 3,700 meters (more than 12,000 feet) and long subject to climatic whims, the shallow saline lake has essentially dried up before only to rebound to twice ...

Juan Torres-Battló receives funding from the University of Surrey. [email protected] receives funding from University of Surrey, UKRI. A huge lake in Bolivia has almost entirely disappeared ...

Bolivia's Lake Poopo was once a fountain of life for local inhabitants, but now due to a confluence of factors, it is a desert with abandoned boats lying on cracked ground. For Indigenous communities ...

Puñaca Tinta María (Bolivia) (AFP) – An abandoned boat rests on the cracked earth where formerly it floated. Lake Poopo, once Bolivia's second-largest, has mostly disappeared -- taking with it a ...

Bolivia’s second largest lake has disappeared, displacing hundreds if not thousands of people who depend on it for their livelihoods. Lake Poopo was officially declared “evaporated” last month in what ...

UNTAVI, Bolivia (AP) – Overturned fishing skiffs lie abandoned on the shores of what was Bolivia's second-largest lake. Beetles dine on bird carcasses and gulls fight for scraps under a glaring sun in ...