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Seeds of Power: Environmental Injustice and Genetically Modified Soybeans in Argentina

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...

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América Latina en la COP25: qué hizo y qué se lleva

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...

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Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism

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 /...

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Children Put Canada and Norway on Blast for Climate Failures

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...

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Science publishers review ethics of research on Chinese minority groups

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...

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Mexico's urban jaguars: Wildlife in modern times

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...

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Animals and the Shaping of Modern Medicine: One Health and its Histories

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...

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Brazil’s deforestation is exploding—and 2020 will be worse

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...

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Muertes de defensores del Amazonas no llegan a la justicia

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...

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Infected travelers reveal Cuba’s ‘hidden’ Zika outbreak

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....

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Deforestación en Amazonia sería peor de lo estimado

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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Deforestación en Colombia es causada por factores complejos

Fuente: SciDev   Cerca del 80 por ciento de los conflictos armados recientes del mundo han tenido lugar en puntos críticos de biodiversidad. Sin embargo, la investigación sobre el impacto de tales...

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Brazilian government accused of suppressing data that would call its war on drugs into question

Source: Science MagazineSÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Is Brazil experiencing a drug epidemic? The answer to that question has spiraled into a legal battle between scientists and government officials over the...

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Hallan fármacos de uso humano en peces de la Cuenca del Plata

Fuente: SciDev   Dos fármacos contra la epilepsia y afecciones cardíacas, un diurético y una droga para el asma, además de otros betabloqueantes y drogas psiquiátricas son algunos de los 17 fármacos...

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Olas de calor en Sudamérica: entre 5 y 10 veces para mediados de siglo

Fuente: SciDev   En los países del norte de Sudamérica las olas de calor podrían aumentar entre cinco y diez veces para mediados de siglo, mientras que el Cono Sur los días con temperaturas...

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The human body is a mosaic of different genomes

Source: NatureThe human body is a complex mosaic made up of clusters of cells with different genomes — and many of these clusters bear mutations that could contribute to cancer, according to a...

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The first UN World Food Safety Day to be marked on Friday 7 June

Source: MercoPressThe first-ever celebration of the United Nations World Food Safety Day, to be marked globally on 7 June, aims to strengthen efforts to ensure that the food we eat is safe.
Every...

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Nuevo modelo para controlar especies exóticas en Sudamérica

Fuente: SciDev   [SANTIAGO] Argentina, Brasil, Chile y el Reino Unido se han unido en un proyecto que busca preservar la biodiversidad de zonas con una invasión de especies exóticas tan elevada que no...

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Monsanto Loses Another Roundup Cancer Trial, With Jury Awarding Over $2 Billion

Source: GizmodoMonsanto Co. lost a legal battle over its massively popular Roundup herbicide on Monday to the tune of $2.055 billion, with a jury in San Francisco ordering the court to pay out the...

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Monsanto tendrá que pagar $2,000 millones a una pareja por "causar cáncer"

Fuente: NoticelUn jurado popular de Oakland (California, EE.UU.) ordenó este lunes a Monsanto, propiedad de Bayer, pagar 2,000 millones de dólares a una pareja de ancianos al considerar que un...

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Niños en Brasil son adictos a alimentos ultraprocesados

Fuente: SciDev   [SÃO PAULO] Los niños brasileños con sobrepeso que consumen frecuentemente alimentos ultraprocesados como galletas, bizcochos y salchichas, tienden a volverse adictos a ellos de...

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El maní de cultivo combina genes argentinos y bolivianos

Fuente: SciDev   En un trabajo conjunto, 50 investigadores de Argentina, Brasil, China, Estados Unidos, India, Corea, Francia y Japón secuenciaron el genoma de una de las especies de maní más...

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Newly Discovered Ancient Carnivore Was Bigger Than a Polar Bear and Is True Nightmare Fuel

Source: GizmodoNew research describes the remains of a gigantic, four-legged mammalian carnivore that terrorized Africa some 22 million years ago.The name of this formidable creature is Simbakubwa...

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Global political climate of ‘fear’ threatens ecologists’ work

Source: Nature  Thousands of people march through Central London, UK in support of science and researchProtesters march in support of science and evidence-based policy in London in April 2017.Credit:...

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World Health Organization panel weighs in on CRISPR-babies debate

Source: NatureThe World Health Organization (WHO) should create a global registry of studies that involve editing the human genome, and research funders and publishers should require scientists to...

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