Tag: scientist

Mexico’s new president is a climate scientist. That could be a boon for California.

LOS ANGELES — California officials are cheering Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum‘s victory as one for the California climate, too. “Having an engineer whose background is working on climate, it’s a big deal,” said Assemblymember Eduardo Garcia, a Democrat representing California’s inland border region who was in Mexico City with Sheinbaum’s team on Sunday to witness […]

Top US government scientist grilled on Covid

Former US government scientist Anthony Fauci angrily denied covering up the origins of Covid-19 Monday in his first public congressional testimony since retiring as the face of the fight against the pandemic. Fauci became the nation’s most trusted expert in the chaotic early days of the 2020 outbreak, but his clashes with former president Donald […]

A scientist, a leftist and a former Mexico City mayor. Who is Claudia Sheinbaum?

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Claudia Sheinbaum, who will be Mexico’s first woman leader in the nation’s more than 200 years of independence, captured the presidency by promising continuity. The 61-year-old former Mexico City mayor and lifelong leftist ran a disciplined campaign capitalizing on her predecessor’s popularity before emerging victorious in Sunday’s vote, according to an […]

from activist to climate scientist to presidential frontrunner

By Diego Oré MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – When Claudia Sheinbaum – the frontrunner to become Mexico’s next president – was just six years old, her parents were active participants in protests during one of the darkest periods of the country’s modern history. It was 1968, the Institutional Revolutionary Party had governed Mexico with an iron […]

The Mad Scientist and the Killer Whales

The five animals took an hour to put the sailboat beneath the waves. At the end of October 2022, four men, each in his late twenties, set sail from western France toward Lisbon. Augustin Drion, an experienced sailor from Brittany, was one of them. He had come to lend a hand to a friend from […]