Archivo de la etiqueta: South America

Venezuelan Coastal Mangroves are shrinking

venezuela-manglar-anca-24Venezuela is estimated to have four percent of the world’s mangroves.

A unique and ecologically diverse mangrove woodland lines miles of Venezuelan coastline, on the northernmost extreme of South America.

The Venezuelan mangroves span over 2,200 square miles, ranking as one of the largest mangrove ecoregions in South America, but that number is… Continue reading

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Lithium the “white gold” that abounds in the Andes, another hope for clean energy

Two years ago the U.S. edition of Forbes magazine published an article in which it called for the Andean region of Bolivia, Chile and Argentina as the “lithium of Saudi Arabia “.

It is the lightest metal, its density is half of the water. Like other univalent alkali metals is very reactive but less than sodium, it is not… Continue reading | 179 Comments

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