Andrew Wight is an Australian science journalist based in Cali, Colombia. He’s covered science and STEM in the Global South since 2019, with his work also appearing in Science, Nature and New Scientist among others. He’s covered everything from the sex lives of coral in Colombia to the plant that’s raw material for cocaine.
To figure out how to save the wetland forests of the Amazon , an ecologist from Brazil led a massive series of expeditions to sample trees across the vast rain-forest., an ecologist and National Geographic Explorer, based at Uppsala University in Sweden explains that seasonal flooding is a key component of Amazon ian wetland forests, on which people, plants, and animals have adapted but now climate changes are putting these ecosytems under threat.
Tavares explains that she looks at how trees work and how they relate to the forest around them, to understand plant-water relations and the susceptibility of these forests to ongoing and future climate change.Tavares was born and raised in the big Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro but her grandmother was from the Amazon.
"Science has historically been dominated by white males from the Global North, frequently side-lining perspectives from women, ethnic minorities and people in the Global South, leading to unequal representation and perpetuating colonial approaches to science and policy," she says.
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