Stories for October 2021

Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 20:17 UTC
PAHO says more COVID-19 vaccines needed

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Assistant Director Jarbas Barbosa Wednesday urged G20 leaders meeting this coming weekend at Rome's Summit to donate more COVID-19 vaccines because the region's improvements in the fight against the disease were shadowed by steps backward in the most impoverished territories and Caribbean Islands.
Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 19:02 UTC
Low cost airline JetSmart to land in Montevideo next year

Chilean budget carrier JetSmart has announced it will start serving Uruguay as of January 18 with tickets available for as low as US $ 20. The airline plans to offer three weekly flights between the capital cities of Chile and Uruguay with Airbus 320 aircraft which have a capacity of 186 seats.
Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 14:04 UTC
BAS and WWF invite the public to work on a “Walrus from Space” census

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and WWF are seeking the public’s help to search for walrus in thousands of satellite images taken from space, with the aim of learning more about how walrus will be impacted by the climate crisis. It’s hoped half a million people worldwide will join the new “Walrus from Space” research project, a census of Atlantic walrus and walrus from the Laptev Sea, using satellite images provided by space and intelligence company Maxar Technologies’ DigitalGlobe.
Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 11:07 UTC
Dutch submariners receive an unexpected visitor on board Walrus class unit

It was a conundrum faced by Dutch submariners when a flippered mammal they named 'Freya' climbed on top of one of their – aptly named – Walrus-class submarines.
Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:55 UTC
Senatorial Committee calls for indictment of Brazilian President for how he handled the COVID-19 crisis

Brazil's Senatorial Committee (CPI) investigating President Jair Bolsonaro's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic Tuesday recommended the head of state be prosecuted for “crimes against humanity” and that he is denied access to social media for having spread false information about the disease.
Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:53 UTC
Brazil envisions plans to cut down Amazon deforestation while developing other activities in the rainforest

Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture estimated this week 1 million hectares per year will suffer deforestation until the year 2030, despite Vice President Hamilton Mourão's announcement Monday that plans to avoid it would be announced at the upcoming 26th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP-26) in Glasgow.
Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:50 UTC
Desperate Nicaraguans go to Honduras to get COVID-19 shots

Citizens of Nicaragua, which according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) ranks among the six countries in the region with the lowest vaccination rates, have been crossing over the border to neighbouring Honduras even on horseback and in rafts to receive a COVID-19 immunizer, it was reported.
Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:47 UTC
Chilean lawmakers present a bill making “stealthing” a crime

Following on the recent approval in California of a bill describing the removal of the condom during a consensual sexual relation as sexual abuse or even a crime, Chilean lawmakers have made a similar presentation before Congress.
Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:43 UTC
Crystal Endeavour scheduled to visit Falklands 21 December and 16 January

Crystal Expedition Cruises will provide included round-trip chartered flights non stop between Miami and Ushuaia, Argentina, as well as hotel nights in both cities for Crystal Endeavor’s inaugural Antarctica program.
Wednesday, October 27th 2021 - 09:41 UTC
Greenpeace: “Coca Cola, Nestlé, Pepsi, ”world's top corporate plastic polluters”

Coca-Cola, Nestlé, and PepsiCo are the top 3 most identified companies in global brand audits for the second year in a row, according to a new report: “BRANDED Volume II: Identifying the World's Top Corporate Plastic Polluters”, released by Greenpeace.