  This paper introduces LACLICHEV (Latin American Climate Change Evolution
platform ), a data collections exploration environment for exploring historical
newspapers searching for articles reporting meteorological events. LACLICHEV is
based on data collections' exploration techniques combined with information
retrieval, data analytics, and geographic querying and visualization. This
environment provides tools for curating, exploring and analyzing historical
newspapers articles, their description and location, and the vocabularies used
for referring to meteorological events. The objective being to understand the
content of newspapers and identifying possible patterns and models that can
build a view of the history of climate change in the Latin American region.
