News from Latin America

Updates every hour. Last Updated: 6-Aug-2025 07:11 ET (6-Aug-2025 11:11 GMT/UTC)

28-Mar-2025

Studies evaluate the health effects of bioactive compounds obtained from plants

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Meeting Announcement

Researchers from Brazil and Germany study the mechanism of action of phytochemicals from papaya, passion fruit and medicinal plant extracts; results were presented at FAPESP Week Germany.

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28-Mar-2025

Call for Proposals: FAPESP Grant for International Researchers

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Grant and Award Announcement

Applicants are expected to propose innovative, outstanding, and high impact research projects that also promote the development of highly qualified human resources, including undergraduate and graduate students, as well as postdoctoral fellows pursuing high quality and impactful research.

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27-Mar-2025

New geospatial intelligence methodology makes land use management more accurate and faster

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A technique developed by researchers was tested in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso and more accurately delineated areas of natural vegetation and agricultural production by crop type; the results showed 95% accuracy in mapping.

Journal

AgriEngineering

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27-Mar-2025

By 2100, more than 80% of amphibian species in and around the Pantanal will lose suitable habitat

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Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study by Brazilian and Swiss researchers predicts that even in an optimistic greenhouse gas emissions scenario, 99% of the area of the Upper Paraguay River Basin will be lost.

Journal

Journal of Applied Ecology

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27-Mar-2025

Scientific freedom faces a number of threats and challenges, says researcher

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Meeting Announcement

Illiberal and authoritarian governments, economic power and digital media are some of the problems facing scientists, says São Paulo State University professor Murilo Gaspardo in a lecture during FAPESP Week Germany.

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26-Mar-2025

International climate favors expansion of scientific cooperation between Brazil and Germany

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Meeting Announcement

The event, held by FAPESP and the German Research Foundation (DFG) from March 25th to 26th at the Free University of Berlin, aims to strengthen ties between researchers from the state of São Paulo and the European country in order to promote research partnerships.

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26-Mar-2025

Registrations open for São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Emerging Pollutants

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Meeting Announcement

School will tackle challenges to monitoring and regulation of these substances that pose sanitary and environmental threats through the use of pesticides, legal and illict drugs, micro(nano)plastics, etc. Applicants may submit until April 20.

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25-Mar-2025

Scientific cooperation is strategic for Brazil to strengthen relations with Europe

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Meeting Announcement

The state of São Paulo has three major partners in scientific collaboration here in Europe, which are Germany, the United Kingdom and France. 

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25-Mar-2025

Even the mild form of COVID-19 tends to cause an imbalance in the cardiovascular system and requires attention

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In a study of 130 volunteers conducted at the Federal University of São Carlos, a drastic decrease in heart rate variability, i.e. the heart’s ability to adapt to environmental and physiological demands, was observed – up to six weeks after infection.

Journal

Scientific Reports

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24-Mar-2025

Caterpillar-like baby hummingbird discovered in Panama

Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A baby hummingbird hatches. But it has fluffy feathers on its back, looking just like a dangerous caterpillar. Could this be something unusual among hummingbirds?   

Journal

Ecology