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Striking new snake species discovered in Paraguay

May 17, 2022462 Views

A beautiful non-venomous snake, previously unknown to science, was discovered in Paraguay and described by researchers of the Paraguayan NGO Para La Tierra with the collaboration of Guyra Paraguay and the Instituto de Investigación Biológica del Paraguay. It belongs to the genus Phalotris, which features 15 semi-subterranean species distributed in central South America. This group of snakes is noted for its striking colouration with red, black, and yellow patterns. Jean-Paul Brouard, one of the involved researchers, came across an individual of the new species by chance while digging a hole at Rancho Laguna Blanca in 2014. Together with his colleagues Paul Smith and Pier Cacciali, he described the discovery in the open-access scientific journal Zoosystematics and Evolution. The authors...

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Mighty river to muddy trickle: South America’s Parana rings climate alarm

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October 28, 2021655 Views

# Parana has retreated to lowest level in 77 years# River is vital for commercial shipping and fishing# Grain transport snarled in Argentina and Paraguay Gustavo Alcides Diaz, an Argentine fisherman and hunter from a river island community, is at home on the water. The Parana River once lapped the banks near his wooden stilt home that he could reach by boat. Fish gave him food and income. He purified river water to drink. Now the 40-year-old looks out on a trickle of muddy water. The Parana, South America's second-largest river behind only the Amazon, has retreated this year to its lowest level since its record low in 1944, hit by cyclical droughts and dwindling rainfall upriver in Brazil. Climate change only worsens those trends. The decline of the waterway, which knits t...

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Paraguay church to see no holiday pilgrims for first time in century

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December 8, 2020726 Views

The people of Paraguay will honor their patron saint this year online or in neighborhood parishes, as pandemic rules prevent an annual pilgrimage to a sacred cathedral for the first time in a century. The sprawling white Caacupé Cathedral, surrounded by palm trees, is widely seen as the spiritual capital of the land-locked South American nation. For more than a century it has attracted nearly a million visitors annually around the holidays, culminating on Dec. 8. The Caacupe Cathedral is pictured before the Virgin of Caacupe Day, during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Caacupe, outside of Asuncion, Paraguay December 7, 2020. REUTERS/Jorge Adorno But this year officials in Paraguay have largely restricted access to Caacupé, 50 kilometers (30 miles) outs...