In a unique collaboration between scientists from the UK, Ecuador and Réunion, a new species of yeast has been discovered growing on the fruit of an unidentified and innocuous bramble collected from the biodiversity-rich ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 15, 2011
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A research team from across the United States and Ecuador has pinpointed 1898 as the year the avipoxvirus, or avian pox, hit the Galapagos Islands and started infecting its birds. This estimation is vital to understanding ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 13, 2011
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(AP) -- The Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador is billowing ash into the sky and sending super-hot pyroclastic flows surging down its slopes, causing authorities to evacuate nearby villages.
Earth Sciences
Dec 5, 2010
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Yasuní National Park, located in the core of the Ecuadorian Amazon, shatters a range of world biodiversity records -- from trees to amphibians to insects to mammals and an array of other plant and animal groups -- ...
Ecology
Jan 19, 2010
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Officials in southern Colombia have issued a code orange alert for the newly-active Galeras volcano which they said could erupt in a matter of days or weeks, according to the state-run Geological and Mining Institute.
Earth Sciences
Nov 1, 2009
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What harm can a simple road do in a pristine place such as Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, home to peccaries, tapirs, monkeys and myriad other wildlife species? A great deal, it turns out. Specifically, it can turn subsistence ...
Ecology
Sep 10, 2009
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(AP) -- Ecuador officials say a volcano is erupting in the Galapagos Islands and could harm unique wildlife.
Earth Sciences
Apr 12, 2009
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