Tsunami waves in Chile:

🔴Snam eleva ALERTA de tsunami para Arica y Parinacota junto a región de Tarapacá

Ciertamente se debe tener una altura prudente a partir de la cual hacer las obras en cualquier playa. La Marina de Guerra es la encargada de dar las conformidades para hacer desde muelles hasta balnearios. Habrá sido el caso en #ElChaco?

Tsunami waves reach Paracas, Peru, appearing to take beachgoers by surprise.

#Latinoamericatienesed En #Latinoamérica viene ocurriendo un fenómeno poco abordado, la escasez de agua es una creciente problemática que aqueja a varios países de la región. bit.ly/3tj7zXY

Very little of the money from illegal mining on Indigenous lands in Brazil go to locals. After a 2020 raid on the Raposa Serra do Sol reserve, Federal Police in Roraima state found just 4% went to local communities. An The Associated Press Exclusive. apne.ws/Db8vPwF

For this story, Inés Gutiérrez Jaber and I dove into the controversial Maya Train. Officials say it will bring economic prosperity to the Yucatán Peninsula, but scientists worry the train and accompanying development will have devastating, irreversible impacts. 👇🏽 science.org/content/articl…

La versión oficial dice que el Tren Maya traerá prosperidad económica. Pero, los científicos están preocupados por los impactos y la devastación que pueda generar el tren.

"Rather than wait for the threats to arrive, however, these communities are forging ties in an unusual and proactive bid for power." Fantastic long read for your morning by Anastasia Moloney from the Amazon. Don't miss it: longreads.trust.org/item/Colombia-…

Great thread w/ lots of LatAm scientists

Derrame de petróleo en Perú: “No importa si trabajan desde ahora hasta el 2050, no recuperarán todo” es.mongabay.com/2022/02/limpie…

Are changes in land use making the Brazilian Pantanal more sensitive to fire-climate extremes? Sujay Kumar, Augusto Getirana, Renata Libonati, Niels Andela, et al. investigate and find a human fingerprint on the devastating surge of fire that raged there in 2020. earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149398/…

Who says one cannot be old, tough AND beautiful? This is a huge Azorella compacta, likely hundreds of years old, in the Apiaceae (yes! same family as parsley); North Argentina plateau. The bright-green surface is the rock-hard canopy of what is actually a small underground tree.

🔴Y señalaron que los resultados de este análisis estaban contenidos en un paper que se publicó en el sitio web SocArXiv. animalpolitico.com/2022/02/gobier…

The U.S. government has suspended all imports of Mexican avocados after a U.S. plant safety inspector in Mexico received a threat. The suspension was confirmed late Saturday — the eve of the Super Bowl, but well after shipments for the big game arrived. apne.ws/U6Lm1Am

#SpamDeCientificas no puede quedar en solo una tendencia más de Twitter 🇨🇴. Escribí esta reflexión para El Espectador porque 3 días de visibilizar a cientos de #científicas no puede ser en vano. Un llamado de atención al Gbno y a los medios de comunicación elespectador.com/ciencia/cienti…

Firefighters and desperate residents searched for victims Wednesday after powerful mudslides and flooding swept through a mountainous region north of Rio de Janeiro, dumping a month’s worth of rain overnight and killing at least 78 people. nyti.ms/3rTzbl8

Now accepting apps for the U.S. National Science Foundation funded REU in Costa Rica 🌴🐒🦋 for underrepresented students!! An amazing program aimed at increasing #DiversityinSTEM. All expenses paid for! Please share widely. Apps are due SOON! tropicalstudies.org/course/reu/

#SismosColombiaSGC Evento Sísmico Internacional - Boletín Preliminar, 2022-03-28, 13:43 hora local. Magnitud 5.0. #NoticiaEnDesarrollo #Temblor #Sismo Más información: sgc.gov.co/sismos