Noticias / News
Trata de menores en Madre de Dios - la situación es difícil.
En Perú, cientos de niñas son prostituidas en campamentos de prospección informal de oro en la Amazonía cada año. Les compartimos este artículo publicado por BBC Mundo, en donde hablan con una de las pocas niñas que logró escapar.
Ports are about to close in Iquitos - Rivers are dry!
Attention travelers! Rivers are still going down and ports are almost inoperative. Boats to Pucallpa and Yurimahuas are not leaving Masusa Port.
Brazil’s President signs ‘death sentence’ for Amazonian river: the Belo Monte dam
Brazil’s President Lula has signed a contract allowing the construction of the hugely controversial Belo Monte mega-dam on the Amazonian Xingu River to go ahead.
"New" Titi Monkey Species is been studied in Colombia
Of course for the locals this does not represent a discovery. They say it purrs like a cat and looks like a leprechaun. The Caqueta titi monkey is being recommended for classification as Critically Endangered.
DengueMap to show recent reports of dengue around the world
New collaboration between Google.org grantee HealthMap and the Dengue Branch of the US Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC).
Google technology for measuring changes on earth's forests
With CLASlite, Google will be offering scientists and tropical nations access to a high-performance satellite imagery-processing engine running online, in the “Google cloud”.On October 2009, at the International Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, Google presented a new technology prototype that enables online, global-scale observation and measurement of changes in the earth's forests.
Oil spill in the Marañón River
We don know the exact amount, but 400 barrels is the number the media is talking about. There are approximately 28 native communities in the district of Parinari, who drinks the water of the river and survive by fishing the river. What will happen now?