Science news articles about 'ecuador'

An illegal logger has been speared to death by natives living in Ecuador's Yasuní National Park, the latest report of gruesome violence between tribes and loggers there.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) -- A 7-year-old Ecuador boy has become the youngest passenger ever aboard a zero-gravity flight....

... rainforest of Costa Rica, the slopes of the Andes and a site in the Amazon rainforest of Eastern Ecuador, at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station1 located adjacent to the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve. Read ...

... so useful that other institutions worldwide adopted the same methodologies. The plot in Ecuador was established in 1995 by researchers from the Universidad Catolica, Aarhus University in Denmark and ...

... diversity, researchers report in the journal Science. This study was conducted in the Yasuni forest dynamics plot of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, a diverse tropical forest site.

Ecuador has launched its first hands-on science centre, with US$4 million worth of funding, to boost S&T in the country.

Photos from the first large-scale census of jaguars in the Amazon region of Ecuador -- one of the most biologically rich regions on the planet -- have just been released.

Ecuador's science community faces heavy budget cuts because of the economic crisis — another blow to the country's research funding.

In the last four decades, each of the 73 research institutes in Ecuador has published an average of only four papers every five years.

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 30 (UPI) -- Ecuador has protected the largest percentage of its share of the Amazon rain forest and Peru the least, a study indicates.

Anti-GM groups say Ecuador's proposed amendment to GM legislation may pave the way for terminator or 'suicide' seeds.

A bug-eyed salamander and a colorful poison frog are among 12 species possibly new to science recently found in the mountains of Ecuador. Video.

... -Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador have found. A study by WCS field scientists in the park ... constructed in 1992 by oil company Maxus Ecuador Inc. that traverses more than 149 kilometers (92 ...

... and combating climate change. The proposal, known as the Yasuní-ITT Initiative, would leave untouched nearlyone billion barrels of oil that lie beneath the national Park in Ecuador. read more

Following conflicts on managing funds for science, the Ecuadorian government has postponed plans for the sector to 2010.