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Although the worst is still months away, Ecuador is already experiencing strong effects of the approaching El Niño. “The daily temperatures on the coast are higher than we have ever seen for this time of year and confirm the predictions that this will be the strongest El Niño on record,” says Vladimir Arreaga of the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (Inamhi).

Britain has recently been engaged in one of its periodic bouts of national pearl-clutching, this time over the late Professor Jason Arday.

Arday became the youngest Black professor at Cambridge University in 2023 after telling an extraordinary story. Allegedly diagnosed with autism and something called ‘global developmental delay’, he said he could not speak until he w...

By Jancee Dunn

I’ve noticed two odd things about my feet lately: They’ve grown a shoe size, and walking barefoot hurts on flat surfaces such as my kitchen floor.

Last year, I wrote a column about weird signs that you’re getting older, including shifting teeth and changes in your voice.

I’ve spotted plenty more since then — like t...

Ecuador’s National Institute of Biodiversity (Inabio) reports that researchers documented the presence of the terrestrial micromollusk genus Habeastrum in Ecuadorian territory for the first time and described three species new to science in Amazonian provinces.

Tiny land snails of the genus *Habeastrum* were found in caves and forests of ...

Bored? –
(De El Mercurio del martes, 18/8) Ecuador podrá ver “el mejor eclipse de Luna” (Ecuador will be able to see “the best lunar eclipse”) – Ecuador, including the Galápagos will be able to see a partial lunar eclipse on el jueves 27/8 with the penumbral phase starting at 20:23. The partial phase will start at 21:33, with the maximu...