Impact Report 2022
Monday, August 14 2023
Source: Charles Darwin Foundation Dear Members, Friends, and Supporters of the Charles Darwin Foundation, It is a great pleasure to present our 2022 Impact Report. The year has proven to be a...
Tag - Biologia
Walsh, The Religion of Life (2022)
Sunday, July 23 2023
The Religion of Life: Eugenics, Race, and Catholicism in Chile Sarah Walsh University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022 The Religion of Life examines the interconnections and relationship between Catholicism...
Latin America’s bird scientists issue manifesto to end marginalization
Tuesday, June 20 2023
Source: Science Two years ago, a group of ornithologists was outraged by the publication of a paper that highlighted how much scientists still don’t know about birds from Latin America and the...
American Scientists Bringing Animals Back From Extinction
Tuesday, June 13 2023
Source: Ancient Origins In a world where the delicate balance of nature is threatened by human activities, a group of American scientists has taken on an extraordinary mission. Hidden away within...
Signy Research station 75th anniversary; RRS Sir David Attenborough visit
Thursday, March 24 2022
Source: MercoPress This week RRS Sir David Attenborough visited South Georgia arriving at the upgraded wharf for the first time at King Edward Point marking a new chapter for polar science The...
Scientific survey of penguins response to climate change in Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica
Saturday, February 12 2022
Source: MercoPress An international team of scientists, including two from the University of Bath, has just arrived back from an expedition studying penguin colonies in the Falkland Islands,...
Científicos cuentan las especies de árboles del mundo y más del 40% está en Sudamérica
Saturday, February 5 2022
Fuente: Voz de America Desde el pehuén en el cono sur hasta el eucalipto azul de Tasmania en Australia, desde los baobabs de Madagascar hasta las secuoyas gigantes de California, el mundo ha sido...
New dangers? Computers uncover 100,000 novel viruses in old genetic data
Thursday, January 27 2022
Source: Science Magazine It took just one virus to cripple the world’s economy and kill millions of people; yet virologists estimate that trillions of still-unknown viruses exist, many of which might...
Argentina: país modelo para descolonizar la paleontología
Thursday, January 27 2022
Fuente: SciDev Para enfrentar el colonialismo que impera en la paleontología de América Latina, es necesario fortalecer regulaciones y comunidades científicas locales, pero también propiciar que la...
Colonial history and global economics distort our understanding of deep-time biodiversity
Thursday, January 20 2022
Source: Nature Sampling biases in the fossil record distort estimates of past biodiversity. However, these biases not only reflect the geological and spatial aspects of the fossil record, but also...
Evolution on the vine: A history of tomato domestication in Latin America
Thursday, January 6 2022
Source: PHys.Org The common cultivated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L. var. lycopersicum; or (SLL)) is among the world's most widely grown vegetable crops, from big agricultural farms to heirloom...
E.O. Wilson, a Pioneer of Evolutionary Biology, Dies at 92
Wednesday, December 29 2021
Source: New York Times Edward O. Wilson, a biologist and author who conducted pioneering work on biodiversity, insects and human nature — and won two Pulitzer Prizes along the way — died on Sunday...
El tesoro de una científica rebelde
Friday, February 28 2020
Fuente: Centro de Periodismo InvestigativoAna Roqué de Duprey, luchadora por el derecho al voto de las mujeres que sabían leer y escribir, se encontraba enferma en cama en su casa de Río Piedras. La...
Powerful antibiotics discovered using AI
Friday, February 21 2020
Source: NatureA pioneering machine-learning approach has identified powerful new types of antibiotic from a pool of more than 100 million molecules — including one that works against a wide range of...
Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina
Tuesday, February 18 2020
Author: Amalia LeguizamónIn 1996 Argentina adopted genetically modified (GM) soybeans as a central part of its national development strategy. Today, Argentina is the third largest global grower and...
América Latina en la COP25: qué hizo y qué se lleva
Wednesday, December 18 2019
Fuente: SciDev La sensación generalizada tras el cierre de la cumbre de la ONU sobre Cambio Climático (COP25) de Madrid, el último domingo, es que se perdió una nueva oportunidad de atacar con...
Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
Friday, December 13 2019
By Banu SubramaniamSeries edited by Banu Subramaniam and Rebecca HerzigPUBLISHED: June 2019SUBJECT LISTING: Science and Technology Studies, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies /...
Children Put Canada and Norway on Blast for Climate Failures
Friday, December 13 2019
Source: EartherThe teens are pissed. Perhaps you’ve heard.Young people have cranked up the pressure all year on world leaders in an attempt to get them to address climate change. In September, 16...
Science publishers review ethics of research on Chinese minority groups
Monday, December 9 2019
Source: NatureTwo science publishers are reviewing the ethics of research papers in which scientists backed by China’s government used DNA or facial-recognition technology to study minority groups in...
Mexico's urban jaguars: Wildlife in modern times
Friday, December 6 2019
Source: Latin American ScienceIn Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, tourism development is closing in on the Selva Maya, the home of the great jaguar, Panthera onca, which like other species has been...
Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its Histories
Thursday, December 5 2019
Source: PalgraveAuthors: Woods, A., Bresalier, M., Cassidy, A., Mason Dentinger, R.Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its HistoriesPalgrave Macmillan; 1st ed. 2018 editionAbout...
Brazil’s deforestation is exploding—and 2020 will be worse
Monday, December 2 2019
Source: Science MagazineDevelopment, most of it illegal, destroyed more than 9700 square kilometers of Brazilian Amazon rainforest in the year ending in July, according to a government estimate...
Muertes de defensores del Amazonas no llegan a la justicia
Sunday, October 6 2019
Fuente: SciDev De los 300 asesinatos ocurridos en Brasil desde 2009 cuyas víctimas defensores de la Amazonia, solo 14 fueron llevados a juicio, según un reporte de la ONG Human Rights Watch (HRW).La...
Infected travelers reveal Cuba’s ‘hidden’ Zika outbreak
Monday, August 26 2019
Source: Science MagazineAs Zika virus raced through the Americas and the Caribbean in 2015 and 2016, it infected an estimated 800,000 people and left nearly 4000 newborns with serious brain damage....
Deforestación en Amazonia sería peor de lo estimado
Monday, August 26 2019
Fuente: SciDev La pérdida de cobertura forestal resultante de la deforestación en la Amazonia brasileña puede ser 15 por ciento mayor que lo que apuntan las estimaciones oficiales. Así concluyó un...
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