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 ...

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Juan Torres-Battló receives funding from the University of Surrey. b.marti-cardona@surrey.ac.uk 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, who fished from its teeming waters and farmed along its banks. Now it is a desert. Scientists say the one-time lake, which ...

(SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) LOCAL, CRISTINA MAMANI, SAYING: "The water of Lake Poopo would start here. We would arrive from the Untavi community by boat with all my children. The water would reach here and ...

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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 ...