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Colombia

Americas 1 year ago

Cali's love motels adapt to host UN summit delegates

With traditional hotels bursting at the seams, hourly rate motels came to the rescue of stranded delegates of the United Nations biodiversity conference.

Americas 1 year ago

Brazil's Lula cancels trip to COP16, COP29 after head injury

Lula had already been forced to cancel a trip to Russia for a summit of the BRICS group of major emerging markets.

Environment 1 year ago

UN biodiversity conference: what's at stake?

The world's pledges to halt humankind's destruction of nature will be put to the test when the 16th United Nations conference on biodiversity opens Monday in Colombia.

Americas 1 year ago

In Colombia, children trade plastic waste for school supplies

The key to its success was inventing a currency to encourage collection: each 250 grams of plastic collected can be redeemed for a plastic coin, which in turn can be traded for a range of goods at a store run by the charity.

Americas 1 year ago

The long walk for water in the parched Colombian Amazon

Bearing six-liter bottles of water on their shoulders, members of Colombia's Indigenous Yagua community tramp along the dried-up riverbed of a branch of the mighty Amazon.

Americas 1 year ago

Colombian president slams police purchase of Pegasus spyware

The malware, which can seize control of a phone's microphone or camera and access documents, hit global headlines when a leak in 2021 showed how governments used it to spy on critics.

Environment 2 years ago

In Colombia, rare bird flaunts male and female feathers

According to experts, the specimen spotted in Colombia was a rare example of "bilateral gynandromorphy" — a condition in which one side of an animal exhibits male characteristics and the other female.

Americas 2 years ago

Colombian kids rescued after 40 days in jungle leave hospital

Four Indigenous children who survived 40 days in the Colombian Amazon have been released from a military hospital after a monthlong stay.

Environment 2 years ago

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Colombia grapples with Escobar's hippopotamus legacy

In their homeland in Africa, they are responsible for more human deaths than almost any other animal, but in Colombia, hippopotami have become loved members of the local community.