Coda Story (online feature) • 1st March 2021 Self-medication & disinformation fuel Colombia’s pandemic Colombia has been deluged with coronavirus-related misinformation but experts say home remedies and over-the-counter medications makes it more vulnerable to disinformation.
EOS/ American Geophysical Union • 17th February 2021 Why Aren’t There More Journal Papers by African Geoscientists? Tanzanian Tumaini Mutungi Kamulali spent years analyzing core data taken from the longest freshwater lake in the world his analysis took place in Arizona.
Sojourners Magazine (Online feature) • 22nd December 2020 How the Faithful Are Fighting COVID in Post-Hurricane Honduras Governments and NGOs of all stripes are aiming to get mask and sanitizer to those displaced by two devastating November hurricanes in Honduras and fight a surge in COVID-19
EOS/ American Geophysical Union • 4th November 2020 Feature: Measuring Massive Magnetic Meteorites In 2019, a Smithsonian Institution warehouse looked like a scene from 1950s science fiction: a 2-meter prism of magnetic coils around a half-meter-long meteorite.
EOS/ American Geophysical Union • 1st October 2020 COVID Clears the Skies for Earth-Observing Drones in Nepal Geospatial data provided by drones can be crucial for emergency preparedness and infrastructure planning in Nepal. Jetliners, however, can get in the way.
New Scientist Magazine (online) • 30th July 2020 How refugee camps in Bangladesh defend against Covid-19 Coronavirus has begun spreading around refugee settlements, but in one of the world’s largest refugee camp complexes a worst-case scenario may have been avoided.
Sojourners Magazine (Online feature) • 28th July 2020 Churches Alone Can't Stop The Killing of Forest Defenders Colombia and the Brazilian Amazon remain two major hotspots for deadly attacks on environmental defenders, a new report from human rights NGO Global Witness reveals.
Ensia [Online Magazine Feature] • 2nd June 2020 Indigenous seed banks tackle multiple global challenges Experts say seeds from traditional agricultural varieties could help solve food shortages and malnutrition, as well as boost food system resilience to climate and cultural challenges.
SciDev.Net [Global Edition] • 24th April 2020 Shortage of coronavirus ‘cure’ hits mothers with lupus Health experts warn pregnant lupus sufferers and their babies are at risk as global supplies of an anti-malarial medicine used to treat the disease run dry due to COVID-19 panic.
SciDev.Net [Global Edition] • 1st April 2020 Coronavirus ‘could devastate’ indigenous communities Despite fears of food insecurity,indigenous communities around the globe are closing borders in an effort to avoid a potentially devastating corona-virus outbreak in their territories.
Sojourners Magazine (Online feature) • 31st March 2020 Lockdowns & Virtual Mass: One Country's COVID-19 Strategy The government and Catholic Church in El Salvador are confronting another new, challenging era in the country’s already rocky past: the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sojourners Magazine (Online feature) • 29th January 2020 Agro-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.
COSMOS Magazine Australia (online) • 28th October 2019 Australian 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 2019 Golden 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.”
COSMOS Magazine Australia (online) • 5th August 2019 Ex-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.
Science Magazine (AAAS) [Online] • 25th February 2019 Biodiversity 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] • 9th January 2019 Colombia 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.
Nature (News service) [In Print Magazine] • 28th February 2019 Spanish 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] • 25th October 2018 Strict 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.
COSMOS Magazine Australia (online) • 20th March 2019 Australian effort to eliminate dengue faces Colombian test Scientists led by an Australian entomologist have been working on a novel concept to eliminate Dengue by breeding and releasing thousands of them.
