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In the presence of Prof. Bohumír Janský from the Faculty of Science at Charles University, Prof. Manuel Amaya, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Chile, and H.E. Pavel Bechný, Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Chile, the panel exhibition "Amazon: A Quarter of a Century Since the Discovery of the Sources by Czech Expeditions" was inaugurated on November 5, 2024, at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Chile. The exhibition will also be presented at Universidad Central and then transferred to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This paper investigates the response of mid-latitude montane peatlands to climate warming, focusing on changes that occurred in a montane peat bog during a drought period. U 

A consortium of researchers led by the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and Charles University, Prague have developed a new data-driven map which predicts substantially more peatland area in the Amazon basin than previously estimated. The high-resolution map provides the first field-data-driven extent of peatlands in the Amazon basin and will be useful for future research and policy on the vulnerability of peatlands to climate change and human impacts.

The book Geoenvironmental Changes in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru has just been published by Springer. The book was edited by Vít Vilímek, Bryan G. Mark and Adam Emmer and a collective of 30 authors from Czechia, USA, Canada, Peru, Austria, Switzerland, UK and France contributed to the book.

The book edited by Jan Kalvoda and Eva Novotná offers a wide range of research topics that are addressed with the aim of contributing to the knowledge of geomorphological hazards in the Himalaya.