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Bottle Schools in Guatemala Provide Education for Children
GILBERT, Arizona — Tim Singer, a Hug It Forward member since 2019, discusses the significance of his work with the organization and how life-changing the Guatemala Bottle School Trips can be for not only the communities but for visitors too. He...
Owner: Clint Borgen
Things to do in Long Beach: Día de los Muertos festival, immigration fundraiser and more!
It’s a week of new beginnings across Long Beach — starting with the ribbon cutting of Ramona Park’s newly redesigned playground on Saturday. Residents can also take part in the virtual kickoff for Long Beach’s new Urban Forest Plan, and an open...
Owner: Jimmy Eleopoulos
How Vesuvius turned this man’s brain to glass: Scientists unravel a 2,000-year-old mystery
PARIS, Feb 28 — A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory Italian scientists proposed on Thursday to...
Owner: Dato' Siew Ka Wei
Holly Academy collects essentials for kids in Guatemala
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Tri-County Times - Michigan
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Holly Academy, a local tuition-free public school academy, fundraised money for essentials for kids and their families in Guatemala. The fundraiser, called Coins and Dollars for a Difference, is led by elementary teacher Jennifer Melero. Children...
Owner: Rick Burrough
How did this man’s brain turn to glass? Scientists have a theory
A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his brain to glass almost 2,000 years ago. That is the theory Italian scientists proposed on Thursday to explain the strange...
US backs modernization of Guatemalan Pacific port to counterbalance China's expansion
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MercoPress
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Wednesday, February 26th 2025 - 10:11 UTC The Guatemalan alternative also offers the nearby Quetzal Duty-Free Zone just four kilometers from the port Guatemala and the United States have announced a US$ 125 million initiative to expand Puerto...
Owner: Gustavo Meikle
IAP helped Peruvian inventor patent a wastewater treatment system
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World Intellectual Property Organization
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As part of his studies, environmental engineering student Jorge Alonso Delgado Sáenz joined a field trip to a palm oil manufacturer in Ucayali, in Peru's remote east, in 2015. There, he and other students at the National University of Ucayali were...
Owner: United Nations
Navigating growth: How Latin American enterprises are adapting to a changing economic landscape
Photos courtesy of Brian Minutti, Jorge Márquez, Fernando Berdegué, Jaime Calderón-Mátar, Denis Genova San Juan, Guillermo González, Michelle Gutiérrez Marti, Paul Krauskopf Romero, Lucy Tovar, and Saúl Romero Blake. Opinions expressed by Digital...
Owner: Janusz Uiberall
Lambda Theta Phi Hispanic Fraternity opens new chapter at Tech
One of the Tech community’s most recent additions is a Latino fraternity, Lambda Theta Phi. Although the chapter is new, the fraternity was founded on Dec. 1, 1975, at Kean University, New Jersey, being the first-ever Latino fraternity in the...
Owner: Georgia Institute of Technology
Bezos grant to fund AI innovations to monitor and protect wildlife
A $1.8 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund will help the Cornell Lab of Ornithology develop acoustic sensors and artificial intelligence analytics to identify real-time threats to forests from illegal activities and provide insights into...
Owner: The National Tribune Australia
Four professors win prestigious Sloan awards for early-career researchers
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced that four Princeton professors — Alexandra Amon, Jason Klusowski, Lue Pan and Maria Micaela Sviatschi — have been selected as 2025 Sloan Research Fellows. "The Sloan Research Fellows represent the very...
Owner: Princeton University
US immigrants have varied burden of preventable infectious diseases but low vaccine uptake, data reveal
A pair of new studies highlight opportunities to reduce the burden of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases among immigrants in the United States, with one revealing fairly high rates of influenza, mumps, and hepatitis A in immigration detention...
Owner: University of Minnesota
TELUS Digital Invests $1 Million to Launch New Research Hub in Partnership With the University of São Paulo
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T-Net
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TELUS Digital Invests $1 Million to Launch New Research Hub in Partnership With the University of São Paulo TELUS Digital to invest $1M over three years to drive frontier research in AI-fueled customer experience (CX) applications, software, and...
Owner: DNI Digital Networks, Inc.
When Guatemalan Justice Learned the Word Exile
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El Faro
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This is chapter two of a chronicle first published by El Faro in Spanish in August 2014. It has now been translated amid the ongoing trial of Benedicto Lucas García on the charge of genocide against the Maya Ixil people. Read chapter one here....
Owner: Fundación Periódica
Meet the 51 women competing to be Miss USA 2025
2025-10-23T21:40:18Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app Miss USA 2025 will take place at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno...
Owner: Mathias Döpfner & Friede Springer
DU Researcher Explains How Tree Rings Forecast Weather Patterns
Every tree tells a story, and at the heart of each story is a journey of growth unfolding year after year. The narrative of a tree is etched in its rings, with each ring—unique in size, width and color—revealing a chapter, telling scientists about...
Owner: University of Denver
Ricardo Méndez Ruiz and the Art of Lawfare in Guatemala
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InSight Crime - Washington D.C.
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It was less than 12 hours after the new president of Guatemala had been sworn in that Ricardo Méndez Ruiz fired off his first challenge to the incoming government of President Bernardo Arévalo. It was vintage Méndez Ruiz, who made his name as the...
Owner: InSight Crime Inc (Non-Profit)
Israel uses Palestinian territories to test its surveillance and population control technologies
Israel uses Palestinian territories to test its surveillance and population control technologies Antony Loewenstein's book reveals how Israel has utilized the Palestinian territories as a testing ground for advanced surveillance and control...
Owner: Mike Adams
SCCI and Guatemala boost economic and trade partnership
The Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has reiterated its dedication to boosting strategic economic collaboration and reinforcing trade and investment ties with the Republic of Guatemala across both public and private sectors. This...
Owner: Eswaramangalam Family
Cutting U.S. foreign aid funding will hurt world's poorest, London researchers say
Cutting off money for programs that help get medicine, food, and other necessities to the world's most vulnerable people could lead to thousands of deaths and allow destabilizing forces to gain control in volatile parts of the world, London-based...
Owner: Canadian Government