My latest for @newscientist on how Colombia's peace accord has been a boon for those recording the country's mega biodiversity but also threatens to wipe out many of the unique species scientists are rushing to document. With some spectacular photos from @inst_humboldt.
'A dream come true’: Brazil’s blue-and-yellow macaws return to Rio after 200 years 💚
Images of the iconic blue-and-yellow macaw can be spotted all over Rio de Janeiro. Yet the real thing has been seen so rarely in the Brazilian city that some wondered if it ever really existed there at all.
The French explorer Jean de Léry first describedan abundance of the giant, colourful parrots around Indigenous tribes in the 16th century, and the Austrian naturalist Johann Natterer sighted the Ara ararauna in the city in 1818.
After that, the record goes blank. Experts say the species was almost certainly wiped out by deforestation, along with the tapirs, jaguars and peccaries that once roamed the forests surrounding the city.
Now, 200 years later, flashes of blue and gold are once again peppering the forest canopy as biologists bring the species – and the forest – back to life.
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Meta and Google are found liable for harm to child’s mental health in landmark California Supreme Court ruling
https://t.co/z9zbX3owrn via @LukeStTaylor
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to see Taylor Swift
Venezuelan gold worth more than $2.2 billion was funnelled through the Caribbean island of Curaçao and a Swiss middleman company before making its way into the global supply chain, OCCRP, @IrpiMedia, and @ArmandoInfo found.
https://t.co/5WTpeldqvP
Qué vergüenza un MinCiencias que no distingue entre opinión y periodismo, ni que sepa que varias revistas académicas tienen secciones de noticias en donde trabajan periodistas científicos con editores. ¿Ahora le van a pedir revisión de pares a las noticias de BMJ, NEJM y Nature?
Some people question our editorial independence related to this article. For the avoidance of doubt: The BMJ is editorially independent, including of its owner. We certainly do not have competing interests in relation to this article @bmj_latest https://t.co/zUWzoAql4D
US immigration agents are using an app developed by Palantir that draws on the health records of millions of Americans to find and detain illegal immigrants
https://t.co/VBoHvCmSgZ
El análisis de @andresvecino demuestra que eso no es cierto. Y aun si fuera correcto, no tiene mucho que ver. No responde a lo que documenta mi artículo: crisis de pagos, escasez de medicamentos, cierres hospitalarios y fallas graves de acceso al sistema de salud.
Dicen que he destruido el sistema de salud. Ignorantes, el sistema de salud no son malas EPS.
Mi política preventiva, ya configurada y en acción, ha logrado rebajar a la mitad, y en apenas dos años, la tasa de mortalidad por desnutrición infantil en Colombia.
¿Qué sistema de salud fracasa si reducimos el número de niños y niñas que mueren por hambre?
Es todo un éxito histórico, lo que hemos logrado con el sistema de salud de Colombia.
“International crime networks trafficking cocaine and laundering profits through illegal gold mining are combined with a government in Lima that has not been a serious obstacle against organised crime,” I told @LukeStTaylor for @guardian
https://t.co/Rvviv8XiPY @CrisisGroup
ARTICLE by @LukeStTaylor on the Maduro-ELN partnership that is wreaking havoc in Colombia & helping the ELN to become richer & stronger in Venezuela:
“It’s not just that the government is turning a blind eye. They are partners” says @cburelli@SOSOrinoco
https://t.co/AyOG1mY5rR