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Archaeologists find Inca city below Santiago, Chile, dengue epidemic spreads...
BRAZIL The southern Brazilian city of Campo Grande has declared a state of emergency due to an outbreak of dengue fever, an infection caused by a virus carried by mosquitoes. More than 8,000 cases have...
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Burial chamber discovered in the middle of Machu Picchu, recording sounds for...
ARGENTINA Argentine researchers are part of an international consortium that is developing new drugs to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria like MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). The...
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Monarch butterfly numbers have fallen by 59 percent, Chile inaugurates its...
ARGENTINA Argentina’s government has created two new marine protected areas in Patagonia: Isla Pingüino Coastal Marine Park and Makenke Coastal Marine Park. Isla Pingüino covers nearly 1,800 square...
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Harvard accused of illegal logging in Chile, climate change affecting...
ARGENTINA Climate change is affecting species in Patagonian lakes, according to a new study published in the journal Global Change Biology. Over two years, the researchers looked at how glacial...
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A bird of prey faces extinction in Central America, the voracious Magellanic...
ARGENTINA Argentine researchers looking at the eating habits of Magellanic penguins discovered that each penguin can capture an astounding number of prey items per foraging trip. These include anchovy,...
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Using cassava to produce electricity in rural Colombia, teasing apart Chile’s...
ANTARCTICA An international team of scientists will study the melting of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier, which is currently melting at a rate of 6 centimeters per day. The team will measure glacier’s...
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ANTARCTICA Certain regions of Antarctica could be storing climate data dating back to more than 1.5 million years, according to recently published Swiss and German scientists. Ice cores have small air...
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New ‘Game of Thrones’ slug found in Brazil, the ‘sponge effect’ of Latin...
BRAZIL Brazilian scientists have discovered a slug that lives on the northwest coast of the country which they dubbed Tritonia khaleesi in honor of the character from the renowned television series...
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