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News from the Region

Learn about current events and news coming out of the LACIS region direct from alumni, friends, and former visiting faculty members.

On the Ground News from Brazil, with update

Posted on April 22, 2020

Video and writing by Jean Vilbert,  a Judge, Writer and Professor in São Paulo, Brazil. Coronavirus is coming to the Tropics. What to do now? As coronavirus advances, Brazilians fear a catastrophe, wondering whether the …

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On The Ground News from Ecuador

Posted on April 20, 2020

By Tod Swanson, Associate Professor at ASU working on the Amazonian social relation to nature. Edits and addition by Claire Campbell, LACIS Social Media and Communications Intern. We left Ecuador on an 11:30 PM flight …

Posted in News from the Region

On the Ground News from Colombia: Fault Lines

Posted on April 8, 2020

Written by Paula Ungar, Colombian biologist, PhD in Environmental Sciences I spend the quarantine days in my old, quiet apartment, in which, from the window, I can see the shape of the Andean mountains that …

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