The flowering of Ecuador’s Guayacan trees
by Andrés López-Córtes and Ángela León Cáceres
To fortify Ecuador’s bioeconomy, Rafael Correa takes a scientific tour of the United States
by Juan Fernando Villa Romero
Latin America’s right to science
In May of this year, Jairam Ramesh, who is leading the Ministry...
Why it’s worth saving the Amazon rainforest: A market-based solution
How investing in Ecuador’s Amazon could be a boon for the pharmaceutical industry...
Mining the Amazon for drug candidates: choosing the right tools for the task
Ethnobotanical research could play a key role in the scientific development of Latin...
Ecuador steps up its fight against climate change
Ecuador recognizes its vulnerability to the effects of climate change and has set...
Engineering life in Latin America
Since 2006, Latin American students have been designing biological machines with specific...
Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park in the age of synthetic biology
Yasuní is the most biologically diverse place on Earth. But do we value...
Giant African land snails are invading Latin America
A slimy invasive species leaves a trail of ravaged fields and parasitic disease...
A bird of prey faces extinction in Central America, the voracious Magellanic penguins of Patagonia, and a new electric car in Chile.
ARGENTINA Argentine researchers looking at the eating habits of Magellanic penguins discovered that...
Galapagos tortoises could have had roots in the Amazon, a new cancer vaccine in Argentina, and Ecuador’s oil spill reaches Peru.
ARGENTINA Argentina has approved the use of a cancer vaccine that complements other...
Uruguay creates Latin America’s first genetically modified sheep, Brazil is losing its indigenous languages, and Argentina develops a melanoma vaccine.
ARGENTINA A group of Argentine institutions are developing a vaccine to prevent the...
Harvard accused of illegal logging in Chile, climate change affecting Patagonian lakes, and fishermen practicing citizen science in the Galapagos.
ARGENTINA Climate change is affecting species in Patagonian lakes, according to a new...
Pronghorns making a comeback in Mexico, pterosaurs in Brazil, and praying for dryland in Panama.
ARGENTINA Argentina’s National University of Río Cuarto has developed an inoculant that hopes...
Indigenous rights upheld in Colombia’s Tayrona Park, Bolivian farmland stressed by rising global quinoa demand, and obesity in Sao Paolo.
BOLIVIA Cultivated in the Andean highlands since 3000 B.C., quinoa is making waves...