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Oscar Pérez-Escobar: Mapping The Orchid Tree of Life

Colombian botanist Oscar Alejandro Pérez-Escobar, Research Group Leader at Kew Gardens, leads the Orchid Tree of Life project, tracing the evolution of 30,000 orchid species. His research, published in New Phytologist, underscores orchids as “canaries…

RICHARD EMBLIN September 6, 2025

Rasmussen Star: New Orchid Species Discovered in Colombia’s Sierra Nevada

Researchers in Colombia have discovered a new orchid species, Epidendrum Rasmussenii, in the cloud forests of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. The endangered orchid…

THE CITY PAPER STAFF June 7, 2025

Idartes’ María Claudia Parias on Bogotá’s cultural platforms and vision for 2025

María Claudia Parias of Bogotá's Idartes is at the heart of transformative initiatives. From the Biennale of Art for Childhood to innovative public spaces for…

RICHARD EMBLIN December 13, 2024

Colombia’s Fernando Trujillo named Nat Geo’s 2024 Explorer of the Year

Colombian biologist and environmentalist Fernando Trujillo has been named the National Geographic Society's 2024 Explorer of the Year. Trujillo's Omacha Foundation works in the Colombian…

THE CITY PAPER STAFF May 13, 2024

Colombian painter Fernando Botero spoke with The City Paper.

Fernando Botero (1932-2023): Of Masterpieces and Monuments

The works of the great master of the visual narrative, Colombia's Fernando Botero, are as corpulent as they are compositions of humanity's uncertainty.

MARIA CRISTINA PIGNALOSA September 15, 2023

Malcolm Deas (1941-2023): Colombia a “pastime in progress”

From Oxford to creating the Latin American Centre, Malcolm Deas helped shape an understanding of Colombia's history, peoples and ideosyncracies.

RICHARD EMBLIN July 29, 2023

Dr. Francisco Lopera, leading researcher on early-onset Alzheimer's

Colombia’s search for memory and cure for Alzheimer’s

Dr. Francisco Lopera found clues in Antioquia that could help uncover the causes of early-onset Alzheimer's and prevent the gene from mutating.

RICHARD EMBLIN April 2, 2023

The Children of the Nevado del Ruíz volcano

For the young residents of PNN Parque Nacional Los Nevados, life is a contrast between stark realities and imposing beauty of the Nevado del Ruíz…

FEDERICO RIOS April 2, 2023

Doris Guzmán Suárez, one of the founders of La Trocha - Casa de la Paz spent 14 years as a political prisoner before the peace accord was signed in 2016. Photo: Lex Treinen.

At La Trocha, ex-guerrillas defend peace with craft beer

With post-conflict financing after the 2016 Peace Accord with FARC, ex-combatants are brewing an exceptional craft beer in Bogotá's Teusaquillo neighborhood.

LEX TREINEN December 10, 2022