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Scientists say a shipwreck off Patagonia is a long-lost 1850s Rhode Island whaler

Scientists investigating the remains of an old wooden ship off the cold, windy coast of far southern Argentina say it almost certainly is the Dolphin, a globe-trotting whaling ship from Warren, R.I., lost in 1859. Archaeologists have spent years researching the ship's origin without making a definitive identification, but a new analysis of tree rings in its timbers has provided perhaps the most compelling evidence yet. A team of Argentinian and American researchers just published the findings in the journal Dendrochronologia.

"I cannot say with a hundred percent certainty, but analysis of the tree rings indicates it is very likely that this is the ship," said lead author Ignacio Mundo of Argentina's Laboratory of Dendrochronology and Environmental History, IANIGLA-CONICET. Mundo and scientists at the Columbia Climate School's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory used a huge database of rings from old North American trees to show that the timbers were felled in New England and the southeastern United States just before the ship was built in 1850. Read more.

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Glaciar Torrecillas: El altivo custodio del Parque Nacional Los Alerces

🌎 #Turismo | #Patagonia | #Chubut | #Esquel 📬 #GlaciarTorrecillas: El altivo custodio del #ParqueNacional #LosAlerces 💻

Sobreviviente de la última glaciación y portador de 24 mil años de majestuosa existencia, el Glaciar Torrecillas, de imponente blanco, cóncavo se sostiene como una carpa de circo, colgando de las montañas. A su alrededor, se expande la inmensidad multicolor del Parque Nacional Los Alerces, protegido como patrimonio mundial desde hace tres años. Unos 60 kilómetros al sureste, la ciudad de Esquel…

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La larga memoria de la vida

La crisis hídrica que sufre desde hace doce años el sur de Sudamérica es ya una mega-sequía, la más prolongada en los últimos 600 años, de acuerdo a una investigación científica del clima de un equipo que lidera Mariano Morales, investigador adjunto del CONICET en el Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), con sede en Mendoza.  Imagen de portada: El Cohete…

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(Video) Red de estaciones meteorológicas en altura: una apuesta frente al cambio climático Científicos del CONICET, en el IANIGLA, participan de un proyecto para monitorear, entender y controlar los recursos hídricos y las variables climáticas.

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Top Argentine glacier scientist charged over cyanide mine spill

http://bit.ly/2yujuC8 The Perito Moreno glacier in Argentinean Patagonia. Ricardo Villalba, former Director of the Argentinean Institute of Snow, Ice, and Environmental Research (IANIGLA), helped draft an Argentine law that created mining “no go zones” in glacial areas. Photo by Max Nathanson On 27 November, Ricardo Villalba, former Director of the Argentinean Institute of Snow, Ice, and Environmental Research (IANIGLA), was indicted in federal court and charged with negligence and failing to correctly inventory the country’s glaciers. In addition, three former Environment Secretaries (Omar Judis, Sergio Lorusso, and Juan José Mussi), were indicted for their roles in overseeing the National Glacier Inventory (NGI). The four men have appealed the “abuse of authority” charges and a federal court will rule this week on whether their cases will go to trial. The presiding judge has authorized the seizure of their assets up to 5 million pesos (US$289,000) each; all are barred from leaving the country. Asamblea Jáchal No Se Toca (“Don’t Touch the Jáchal”), an NGO in Northwest Argentina’s San Juan province, brought the legal action. It alleges that contamination of the Jáchal River, stemming from toxic cyanide spills at the Veladero mine in 2015 and 2016, could have been avoided through a more thorough glacier inventory, assessing ice bodies smaller than one hectare. The inventory, if done properly, plaintiffs state, would have disallowed mining in the area, according to National Law 26,639 for the Preservation of Glaciers and the Periglacial Environment, a law which the accused, Ricardo Villalba, helped create. The Veladero open-pit…

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Chilecito pide prohibir la megaminería por los glaciares relevados en Famatina

Chilecito pide prohibir la megaminería por los glaciares relevados en Famatina

Glaciar en Famatina (Foto: Gobierno de La Rioja)

El Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA) documentó que existen 46 glaciares en el cordón del Famatina. A partir de este informe la Asamblea Ciudadana por la Vida de Chilecito pedirá a la Justicia riojana la “prohibición de todo emprendimiento minero en la zona” e impedir la minería a cielo abierto. Jenny…

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Investigador del CONICET participó en el hallazgo de una nueva especie de invertebrados marinos fósiles Se trata de Braquiópodos que habitaron parte de la Cordillera de los Andes durante la era paleozoica.