Desmond Brown writes for the Inter Press Service about the complications of Guyana's newly-discovered offshore oil, both economic and environmental. What will happen to Guyana's low-carbon economic strategy if it drills?

The recent discovery of large volumes of oil offshore of Guyana could prove to be a major headache for the country, as the ( Read more... )

• blogTO notes an Instagram user from Toronto, @brxson, who takes stunning photos of the city from on high.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a paper examining the limits of exoplanet J1407b's massive ring system.
• The Dragon's Tales notes evidence that the primordial Martian atmosphere apparently did not have carbon dioxide.
• Imageo notes that the California ( Read more... )

The Inter Press Service's Fabiana Frayssinet reports on the popularity in Argentina of agroecology, a variant on organic agriculture.

Organic agriculture is rapidly expanding in Argentina, the leading agroecological producer in Latin America and second in the world after Australia, as part of a backlash against a model that has disappointed ( Read more... )

Open Democracy hosts Yessika Gonzalez's article looking at the queering of the Argentine tango.

With the internationalization of tango, its slum origins were forgotten and a strictly codified dance was exported with clearly defined roles between man and woman. In the traditional milongas-the venues where people in Argentina go to tango-women ( Read more... )

The story told by the Inter Press Service's Mario Osava, describing how the Ecuadorian capital of Quito will be transformed through gentrification following subway construction, sounds sadly familiar.

Success can kill, when it comes to cities. Spain’s Barcelona is facing problems due to the number of tourists that it attracts. And the historic ( Read more... )

• At Apostrophen, 'Nathan Smith talks about how he made a tradition out of Christmas tree ornamentation over the past twenty years.
• blogTO notes that Toronto's waterfront has major E Coli issues.
• Crooked Timber notes the potential for the recent by-election in London, fought on Brexit and lost by the Tories, to mean something.
• The Dragon's Gaze reports ( Read more... )

• Beyond the Beyond links to an interview with Darran Anderson, a writer of cartographic fiction.
• Centauri Dreams notes that 2028 will be a time when microlensing can b used to study the area of Alpha Centauri A.
• The Crux engages with the question of whether or not an astronaut's corpse could seed life on another planet.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a ( Read more... )

• Antipope's Charlie Stross worries about the literal survival of Britons in the post-Brexit United Kingdom.
• D-Brief notes the discovery of an ancient corpse in China shrouded in cannabis.
• Dangerous Minds reports on a 1971 BBC documentary about New York City starring a pre-stardom Patti Smith.
• The Dragon's Gaze links to a study mapping the changing ( Read more... )

• Astrobeat U>notes the vulnerability of Florida's Space Coast to Hurricane Matthews.
• D-Brief notes that the Voyager probes are the most distant US government-owned computers still in service.
• Dangerous Minds shares high-heeled tentacle shoes.
• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes that a President Trump would enable anything the Congressional Republicans wanted ( Read more... )

• Bloomberg notes a raid of Amazon's Japan office by that country's competition agency.
• Bloomberg View looks at paranoia about Pokémon Go and suggests China is not trying to overturn the world order.
• CBC reports on the popular music and dance of Brazil's slums, and reports on the diet of ancient humans.
• The Inter Press Service notes that African farmers ( Read more... )