Ethnobiological drug discovery in Latin America
In the 1530s, the French seafaring explorer Jacques Cartier noticed that indigenous slaves...
Using satellites to find kidnapped people in Mexico, thirty-five species found in Ecuador since 2008, and Argentina beats out China in oilseed production.
MEXICO Students of Mexico’s National Polytechnic Institute are hoping to facilitate the rescue...
New ‘Game of Thrones’ slug found in Brazil, the ‘sponge effect’ of Latin America’s tropical forests, and Peru’s scientific cruise sails for Antarctica.
BRAZIL Brazilian scientists have discovered a slug that lives on the northwest coast...
2014 and the future of Latin America’s bioeconomy
From quinoa genes that enable crops to resist climate change to intestinal bacteria...
Paraguay’s capital still without a wastewater treatment plant, Mexico City’s warmer winters and Latin America’s smartest cities.
PARAGUAY The Paraguay river–which flows through and supplies water to four Latin American...
Weekly digest: An in-depth look at Belo Monte dam, the threat of a fungus on Latin America’s bananas and exporting the Galapagos model to Chile.
BRAZIL In mid-2011, construction started on Brazil’s Belo Monte hydroelectric dam on a...
State-of-the-art soccer ball for the 2014 World Cup, a new variety of stevia in Peru, and combating dengue in Argentina.
ARGENTINA Researchers at the University of Buenos Aires are using applied mathematics to...
Latin America’s right to science
In May of this year, Jairam Ramesh, who is leading the Ministry...
Accelerating Science in Latin America
How to make particle physics interesting to Latin Americans: CERN as a benchmark...
New rodent found in Patagonia, algae help double eucalyptus production in Chile, and Nicaragua commits to science.
ARGENTINA Scientists in Patagonia have discovered a new species of rodent in the...
Fewer monarch butterflies in Mexico and important paleontological finds in Chile and Uruguay.
MEXICO There has been a reduction in the number of monarch butterflies migrating...
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...
Peru’s disappearing glaciers, a state of emergency in Brazil due to a caterpillar, and Rio de Janeiro’s sewage problems.
BRAZIL Brazil has declared a state of emergency in Mato Grosso, its main...
Studying leishmaniasis ‘on the cloud’ in Brazil, top Argentine scientists awarded, and the collapse of Venezuela’s healthcare system.
ARGENTINA Scientists from Rosario, Argentina are using scanning electron microscopy to detect gunpowder...
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...
Argentinosaurus walks, 1.5 million-year-old Antarctic climate data, and scientists find the first poisonous crustaceans.
ANTARCTICA Certain regions of Antarctica could be storing climate data dating back to more...
Ecuador steps up its fight against climate change
Ecuador recognizes its vulnerability to the effects of climate change and has set...