Sojourners Magazine (Online feature) • 29th January 2020Agro-Ecology Is Healing Guatemala's Landscape In Rabinal, Guatemala, a group of Indigenous women are shaping a healthier future via eco-friendly agriculture, while helping heal the wounds of Guatemala’s 1980s genocide.
Sojourners Magazine (Online feature) • 4th November 2019Women Forge New Path for Catholic Church in Amazon Anitalia Pijachi is an outspoken, non-religious, Indigenous woman from Colombia – But for the last few weeks, she's helped shape dialogue at the highest echelons of the Catholic Church.
The Week [UK magazine] • 3rd November 2019Colombia's growing sustainable farming movement For over 20 years, Carlos Osorio, 65, was a conventional farmer outside the central Colombian village of El Carmen de Viboral — spraying pesticides every single day.
COSMOS Magazine Australia (online) • 28th October 2019Australian scientists helping Nepal navigate water management Australia's CSIRO is working with Nepalese colleagues to implement a scientifically sound and socially equitable water management plan in the Kamala Basin, an important irrigated agriculture zone
Science Magazine (AAAS) [Online] • 8th October 2019Golden Rice: The Imperiled Birth of a GMO Superfood Ed Regis explores why certain food plants are treated by authorities and the public as “genetically modified,” as worthy of strict cautionary regulation and others seen as "natural.”
Sojourners Magazine (Online feature) • 18th September 2019Indigenous Women in the Peruvian Amazon Lead Fight for Rights More than two dozen indigenous women leaders met in Puerto Maldonado, Peru, to hear from experts such as human rights lawyers and land rights defenders.
NBC News (USA)- online feature • 9th September 2019Faith leaders, indigenous people team up in the Amazon For The Roman Catholic Church, which has ramped up its focus on the Amazon and the millions of indigenous people who live there, prayer is not enough.
DW Global Ideas & Environment • 15th August 2019Monitoring Colombia’s Rich Biodiversity In Sound Just in Colombia, scientists have amassed a collection of over 20,000 animal sounds being used to study everything from climate change to deforestation and urbanization.
Public Radio International (PRI) • 9th August 2019Indigenous land rights key to climate adaption: UN UN says land tenure of Indigenous and traditional landholders is key to climate adaption but Colombia warn they can’t protect the forests if they can’t protect themselves.
COSMOS Magazine Australia (online) • 5th August 2019Ex-guerrillas learn biodiversity and business models Ex-guerrillas in Colombia are learning about how they can use the latest technology and scientific knowledge to help them launch or improve ecotourism businesses.
Chemistry World [print magazine] • 5th July 2019Congress safeguarding science funding in Colombia The Colombian government did little to prioritise science until a peace treaty in 2016 ended a 50-year conflict, but now scientists are welcoming proposed reforms.
Sojourners Magazine (Online feature) • 5th June 2019Colombian Indigenous Students Blast Into Solar Future A NASA rocket will carry a science project from Nestor Epinayu, 16, and his fellow science club members from a small Indigenous community in Colombia.
Nature (News service) [In Print Magazine] • 28th February 2019Spanish science reforms aim to make life easier for parents The Spanish government has passed reforms to the nation’s scientific system that will cut red tape and make life easier for researchers — especially parents.
Nature (News service) [In Print Magazine] • 9th January 2019Colombia announces its first-ever science ministry Colombian scientists are cautiously optimistic after the country’s Senate voted to create the nation’s first Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation.
Science Magazine (AAAS) [Online] • 25th February 2019Biodiversity researchers seek relief from red tape Colombian biologist Jean Paul Delgado dropped plans to sequence the genome of Bolitoglossa ramosi because of burdensome regulations.
Nature (News service) [In Print Magazine] • 25th October 2018Strict EU ruling on gene-edited crops squeezes science Three months after the European Union’s top court gave gene-edited crops the same stringent legal status as GMOs, researchers world-wide feel the pinch.
Ensia [Online Magazine Feature] • 14th May 2019Scientists working to turn agricultural waste into new products When we pick up a piece of fruit, bar of chocolate or package of flour, we don’t often think of the huge amounts of agricultural waste that never make it off the farm.
NBC News (USA)- online feature • 26th January 2019Vaccinations for Venezuelans at Colombian Border Mothers are crossing from Venezuela to Colombia just to get their babies vaccinated because because the Venezuelan health system can't help.
Sojourners Magazine (Online feature) • 5th March 2019Girls’ Love of Science Takes Root in Rural Colombia In an isolated part of Colombia better known for rice, pineapples, and paramilitaries, something else is taking root: the next generation of female scientists.
NBC News (USA)- online feature • 19th November 2018Baby baristas: do kids hold key to Colombia's coffee future? In Colombia, kids like Julián Murillo, 8 are learning barista skills with the goal of saving the country's coffee culture. “I want to run my own coffee shop one day," he says.
