Bites and stings from venomous animals: a neglected Brazilian tropical disease
Brazil fiddles in Paris while the Amazon burns
by Marieke Riethof Continue reading Brazil fiddles in Paris while the Amazon burns
Shade balls or floating solar panels?
Financing Marine Protected Areas through visitors fees: A possible solution for biodiversity conservation
by Pamela Padilla and Andrés Ospina Continue reading Financing Marine Protected Areas through visitors fees: A possible solution for biodiversity conservation
Elephants and spearheads in Sonora, Mexico
by Michelle María Early Capistrán Continue reading Elephants and spearheads in Sonora, Mexico
Chile’s El Pelillo algae in danger of extinction
Baja California’s sea turtles swim out of the past
The pine tree invasion of South America
Searching for the next generation of STEM leaders in the Americas
The flowering of Ecuador’s Guayacan trees
by Andrés López-Córtes and Ángela León Cáceres Continue reading The flowering of Ecuador’s Guayacan trees
How Latin America prepared for the possibility of an Ebola outbreak
The Galapagos Islands: A photoessay
The Nicaragua Canal Conundrum
by Rohan Chatterjee Earlier last year one of the most iconic civil engineering projects in modern history, the Panama Canal, celebrated its centennial. Observers have lauded the US-built megastructure’s role, now officially under the auspices of the Panamanian State, in transforming the national economy into the region’s most prosperous. Where Panama once led Nicaragua now … Continue reading The Nicaragua Canal Conundrum
Invasive plants reaching new elevations in Chile
Could birdwatching save Latin America’s forests?
Five impressive scientists we met in 2014
Ezequiel Petrillo in Argentina Ezequiel Petrillo (pictured above) is an Argentine biochemist studying how chloroplasts behave differently depending on the amount of light exposure. He is trying to understand how a plant self-regulates and adapts to different environmental conditions by employing alternative RNA splicing, a process by which a single gene can give rise to … Continue reading Five impressive scientists we met in 2014