Location: South America

Filters close
Released: 29-Jan-2020 1:10 PM EST
Drug Lord’s Hippos Make Their Mark on Foreign Ecosystem
University of California San Diego

Scientists published the first assessment of the impact that invasive hippos imported by drug lord Pablo Escobar are having on Colombian aquatic ecosystems. The hippos are changing the area’s water quality by importing large amounts of nutrients and organic material from the surrounding landscape.

Released: 27-Jan-2020 11:15 AM EST
Victims of mass atrocities often portrayed as disempowered in international law
University of Helsinki

According to a doctoral thesis completed by Nadia Valentina Tapia Navarro, victims of mass atrocities are often portrayed as disempowered, passive, defenceless and docile in discourses pertaining to international law.

Released: 19-Dec-2019 4:20 PM EST
People in Peru Are Being Exposed to Potentially Dangerous Levels of Mercury
University at Albany, State University of New York

People living in the southern Peruvian Amazon are being exposed to potentially dangerous levels of mercury due to a combination of their diet and artisanal and small-scale gold mining occurring in their communities.

   
Released: 17-Dec-2019 12:55 PM EST
Visualizing 2020: Trends to Watch
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

CFR experts spotlight some of the most important trends they will be tracking in the year ahead.

     
Released: 10-Dec-2019 2:10 PM EST
'Ojos' study to examine eye disease in Latino communities
University of Illinois Chicago

With $9.7 million in funding from the National Eye Institute, researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago will study the impact of chronic eye disease among Latinos.

Released: 25-Nov-2019 9:00 AM EST
Brazilian Butt Lift Is Here to Stay: Plastic Surgeons Share the View from Brazil
Rodrigo Rosique, MD, PhD

Brazilian Butt Lift Is Here to Stay: Fat grafting to enhance the appearance of the buttocks has continued its rapid ascent in popularity. A prominent Brazilian husband-and-wife plastic surgery team has summed up their experience and insights on gluteal augmentation and received their second Best Paper Award by the leading Plastic Surgery journal by focusing on the use of the patient's own fat to safely achieve the desired cosmetic improvement.

Released: 18-Nov-2019 12:45 PM EST
Bolivia’s Power Vacuum: What to Know
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

Election fraud allegations have prompted President Evo Morales to resign with no clear successor, plunging Bolivia into political uncertainty.

Released: 10-Nov-2019 9:05 AM EST
Neurosurgery in the Brazilian Amazon Is Possible
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

A Rutgers study presents a model for creating a sustainable neurosurgery programs in poor, remote locations

Released: 8-Nov-2019 12:20 PM EST
In a warming world, glacier scientists have to keep going higher
Ohio State University

As Earth's atmosphere gets warmer, glacier scientists need to climb ever higher to find ice that hasn't started melting. And they're finding that some of the planet's most vulnerable people are likely to be most affected.

Released: 6-Nov-2019 9:00 AM EST
Pharmacy in the Jungle Study Reveals Indigenous People’s Choice of Medicinal Plants
Florida Atlantic University

In one of the most diverse studies of the non-random medicinal plants selection by gender, age and exposure to outside influences from working with ecotourism projects, researchers worked with the Kichwa communities of Chichico Rumi and Kamak Maki in the Ecuadorian Amazon. They discovered a novel method to uncover the intracultural heterogeneity of traditional knowledge while testing the non-random selection of medicinal plants and exploring overuse and underuse of medicinal plant families in these communities.

Released: 4-Nov-2019 1:30 PM EST
What’s Behind the Chile Protests?
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)

CFR In Brief by Amelia Cheatham. Political unrest is sweeping Chile, as impatience with inequality grows in what has been one of Latin America’s most prosperous and stable countries.

Released: 28-Oct-2019 4:10 PM EDT
Project partners researchers, librarians and AI to fight hunger
Cornell University

Ceres2030, a global effort led by International Programs in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, is employing machine learning, librarian expertise and cutting-edge research analysis to use existing knowledge to help eliminate hunger by 2030.

Released: 9-Oct-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Narcotics Traffic Devastating Central American Rainforests, Fueling Climate Change
Texas State University

Drug trafficking and, paradoxically, efforts to slow it are rapidly driving the deforestation in Central America's most vulnerable tropical rainforests, new research conducted in part by Texas State University reveals.

Released: 27-Aug-2019 4:25 PM EDT
UAlbany Archeologist Leads $1.6 Million Project to Reconstruct Prehistoric Climate Change in Northern Belize
University at Albany, State University of New York

A team of interdisciplinary researchers are turning to a global event 4,200 years ago for insight on human adaptation to climate change.



close
2.02223