Sonia Ramírez

Journalist with more than 13 years of experience in radio and digital media. I have developed and led content on culture, education, international affairs, and trends, with a global perspective and the ability to adapt to diverse audiences. My work has had international reach, bringing complex topics to broad audiences in a clear and engaging way.
Large pipeline corridor in Riyadh carrying treated wastewater that feeds the flowing Wadi Hanifah desert river

Saudi Arabia is turning wastewater into an ever-expanding green corridor in the middle of the desert

April 12, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Person holding a box of donated clothes during a closet cleanout at home

For years, donating clothes seemed like the perfect way to clean out our closets and feel a little better about the planet, but a new study reveals a rather uncomfortable reality: between 33% and 97% of donated clothing ends up being exported, and a large portion of it ends up in landfills, out of sight

April 11, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Satellite view of severe flooding in Córdoba Colombia after extreme February rains covering farmland and communities

How one of Colombia’s most important livestock-raising regions came to resemble a giant lake in just a few days following the rains of February 2026, which were so unusual that they could be seen from space

April 9, 2026 at 5:00 PM
NASA experiment using concentrated sunlight to extract oxygen from simulated lunar soil in a lab setup

What astronauts step on could end up in their oxygen tanks, and NASA’s new experiment with concentrated sunlight makes the idea of living on the Moon for months without relying so heavily on Earth seem much more plausible

April 9, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Construction concept rendering of Panama City’s proposed Canal Underline pedestrian and bicycle tunnel beneath the Panama Canal

The pedestrian and bicycle tunnel under the Panama Canal, which was on the verge of being approved in March 2026, is still on the table and promises something that once seemed almost impossible: crossing one of the main barriers to global trade on foot, without cars, without traffic jams, and without relying on bridges

April 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Seismic imaging of tectonic plate breaking apart beneath Pacific Ocean near Cascadia subduction zone

For the first time, they “saw” a tectonic plate breaking apart under the Pacific, and what they found was not a crack, but an entire system

April 7, 2026 at 10:15 AM
An artist's illustration of a towering Martian dust devil with faint, blue electrical spark discharges flickering within the swirling orange sand.

Lightning has been detected on Mars for the first time, and the Perseverance rover has captured something that seemed impossible

April 6, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Preserved squid specimen identified as Mobydickia poseidonii, a new squid family discovered from a sperm whale stomach sample

It all began with a strange, squid-like mass found in the stomach of a sperm whale in 1955 and 1956, and decades later, scientists discovered that it was something far stranger than anyone could have imagined

April 6, 2026 at 3:19 AM
A composite image showing a total solar eclipse transitioning into an annular "ring of fire" eclipse against a dark starry background.

Goodbye to total eclipses: every year, the Moon moves a little further away… and the most visible consequence has a date

April 5, 2026 at 6:30 AM
Rare gigantic jet lightning shooting upward from a thunderstorm toward space as seen from the International Space Station

NASA is once again highlighting an image taken on July 3, 2025, from the ISS that looks like something out of a movie: a “gigantic jet” that doesn’t fall to Earth, but instead shoots out of a storm and rises to a height of nearly 100 kilometers

April 5, 2026 at 4:52 AM
JOIDES Resolution research vessel at sea during the expedition that recovered the deepest mantle core ever drilled beneath the Atlantic Ocean

Scientists drill into the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and extract the deepest mantle core ever obtained at 4,160 feet

April 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Wetland landscape in the Netherlands or Belgium linked to ancient hunter-gatherer populations studied through DNA research

Ancient DNA reveals that hunter-gatherers in what is now Belgium and the Netherlands survived until 2500 BC, when the rest of Europe was already engaged in agriculture

April 3, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Dwingeloo radio telescope detecting Voyager 1 signal from deep space nearly 25 billion kilometers from Earth

A group of amateur astronomers has just “heard” a signal from 25 billion kilometers away, confirming that Voyager 1 is still transmitting from the outer reaches of the Solar System

April 2, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Concept illustration of asteroid mining and lunar resource extraction as part of China’s long-term space development strategy

China has set itself the goal of “dominating” the Solar System by the year 2100, and what is most surprising is that it will begin as early as 2026-2030 with mining operations near Earth

April 2, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Large fragment of the Aletai iron meteorite seized by Russian customs after smugglers attempted to export it as a garden sculpture.

Russia intercepts a 2.8-ton fragment of the Aletai meteorite, valued at $4.2 million, which was being smuggled out of the country disguised as a simple garden ornament

April 2, 2026 at 7:27 AM
Barista handing a cup of coffee to a customer, illustrating research on coffee’s surprising effect on the gut microbiota

An epidemiologist who has been studying the gut for 30 years confirms that coffee has a surprising effect on the microbiota

April 1, 2026 at 5:00 PM
European eel Anguilla anguilla, a migratory fish now listed as critically endangered after decades of population decline.

The eel, which can grow to over a meter in length and travel thousands of kilometers between rivers and the sea, is critically endangered according to the IUCN, and now the industry fears a total ban

April 1, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Invisible countertop cooktops arriving in 2026 could upend induction and glass-ceramic stoves.

Say goodbye to the traditional induction cooktop: the invisible cooktop that threatens to replace the classic glass cooktop and is beginning to cast doubt on the future of the induction cooktop as we’ve known it

March 31, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Microbialite-covered shoreline at Utah’s Great Salt Lake, where scientists found a newly described worm species

In 2022, they descended to the bottom of Utah’s Great Salt Lake and found a “worm” that, according to the textbooks, should not exist there and is now officially a new species to science

March 31, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Coelacanth fish Latimeria chalumnae, the ancient lobe-finned species rediscovered off the coast of South Africa in 1938.

December 1938, a call from a ship and an “impossible fish” in South Africa: that’s how the day began when Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer turned 66 million years of science on its head

March 31, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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