Tag Archives: Americas

The fossils obtained from across the globe have introduced us to countless types of creatures that once lived on the planet—from the giant birds of Antarctica to the largest dinosaurs of the Americas. Whenever paleontologists dig out such remarkable well-preserved fossils of these ancient creatures, they open new possibilities for …

Cases of life-threatening malnutrition are expected to more than double among young Haitian children this year, due to COVID-19, gang violence, and extreme weather associated with climate change, the U.N. children’s fund UNICEF said on Monday. Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, has long had one of the world’s …

Property owners operating with ‘total impunity’ in areas where the building is forbidden, zone’s head says. Just beyond the towering pyramids of what was once the largest city of the Americas, an illegal building project threatens to cause irreparable harm to the remains of temples and some two dozen other …

Guatemala must now consider itself a cocaine-producing nation and not just a transit country for the powerful narcotic after authorities discovered new coca processing laboratories, the interior minister said. Last year, Guatemala discovered plantations growing coca, along with a laboratory to process the leaf into cocaine. Until recently, the crop …

At least 10 people died when a fire ripped through a hospital in Rio de Janeiro on Thursday evening, firefighters said. The blaze, apparently caused by a short circuit, was the latest tragedy to hit one of Brazil’s most famous cities. Staff wheeled patients out on beds as smoke spread …

It came, witnesses said, quickly and without warning. One compared it to the “apocalypse”. Sao Paulo – the largest city in the Americas – was plunged into afternoon darkness after vast plumes of smoke from forest fires burning across the continent suddenly swept over the city. Brazilians living in the …

Telegram’s founder Pavel Durov has said a massive cyber attack on his messaging service originated from China. On Wednesday, the firm confirmed it suffered a “powerful” Distributed Denial of Service attack which disrupted services for about an hour. In a DDoS attack, hackers overwhelm a target’s servers with junk requests. …