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Montevideo, January 1st 2026 - 04:43 UTC

Health & Science

  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 09:53 UTC

    Argentina launches 2025/26 Summer Antarctic Campaign

    The Almirante Irízar is the campaign's flagship

    Argentina has formally commenced its 2025/26 Summer Antarctic Campaign (CAV), a massive, multi-faceted operation integrating logistics, scientific research, and infrastructure development in one of the planet’s most challenging environments.

  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2025 - 08:35 UTC

    UK Antarctic Strategy to 2035, next decade Policy Paper

    The Discovery Building at the BAS Rothera Research Station (Pic BAS)

    The strategy document sets out the UK's approach to the Antarctic over the next decade, It can be read at,UK Antarctic Strategy to 2035

  • Monday, December 1st 2025 - 21:01 UTC

    Uruguay leads Latin America in electric car sales

    During the first semester of 2025, electric vehicle sales in Uruguay reached over 5,000 units, representing a 124% yoy increase

    Uruguay has cemented its position as the undisputed leader in Latin American electric vehicle (EV) adoption, achieving a remarkable market penetration of 27.97% in the third quarter of 2025, the Latin American Zero Emissions Observatory (ZEMO) reported. The South American country is way ahead of its nearest competitor (Costa Rica, with 16.26%).

  • Thursday, November 27th 2025 - 09:28 UTC

    Brazil approves locally produced dengue vaccine

    Padilha said that the first doses could become available as early as next month

    Brazil's National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) has approved the final administrative step before the formal registration of the single-dose dengue vaccine developed by the São Paulo-based Butantan Institute for people aged 12 to 59, which protects against all four virus serotypes.

  • Tuesday, November 25th 2025 - 09:04 UTC

    Argentina: Mar del Plata to fine beach smokers this summer

    Mar del Plata's move reflects a rapidly accelerating international trend to expand smoke-free policies

    The Argentine city of Mar del Plata will fine people smoking on its beaches as of Dec. 1, ending a three-year implementation period based solely on voluntary compliance. The new rules will impose significant economic penalties on trespassers outside designated areas.

  • Thursday, November 20th 2025 - 08:48 UTC

    Argentine province back to pandemic-era measures as Covid-19 resurges

    Formosa maintains systematic Covid-19 testing, unlike the rest of the country

    The Argentine province of Formosa has confirmed a significant resurgence of Covid-19, prompting health officials to re-establish preventative measures associated with the pandemic and leading to an urgent plea to the National Government over delayed vaccine deliveries.

  • Monday, November 17th 2025 - 21:16 UTC

    Avian flu decimates seal elephant population in South Georgia; few survivors emerge in Uruguayan beaches

    Newly born pup Francine, at a beach in Piriapolis along the Uruguayan coast line

    In the last few months there have been at least twenty incidents of elephant seals emerging along Uruguayan beaches, both females and males, and allegedly they belong to “deep South species”, according to local environmental and animal protection organizations such as “FaunaMarinaSOS”.

  • Saturday, November 15th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

    Dominican Republic boosts border security as cholera resurges in Haiti

    Cholera was declared eliminated in Haiti in February 2022, but new infections re-emerged months later

    Authorities in the Dominican Republic have upped all border security measures after Haiti's Ministry of Public Health and Population (MSPP), backed by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO/WHO) and other international agencies, admitted to the spreading of a cholera outbreak, it was reported in the Caribbean island of Hispaniola on Friday.

  • Tuesday, November 11th 2025 - 09:41 UTC

    Uruguay chosen to UNESCO Board

    Montevideo's Foreign Ministry said the appointment reflected Uruguay's “historic commitment to multilateralism”

    Uruguay has secured a seat on the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for a four-year term, following an election held during the organization's 43rd General Conference in Uzbekistan. The South American country obtained 119 votes from the Member States present at the event.

  • Thursday, November 6th 2025 - 21:48 UTC

    Former Argentine VP moots euthanasia bill

    “I believe society is more mature to have this debate,” Cobos argued

    Following the approval in Uruguay of the so-called Dignified Death Act (or Euthanasia Law), former Argentine Vice President Julio César Cleto Cobos, now a Radical Civic Union (UCR) Federal Congressman from the province of Mendoza, pushed a similar initiative across the pond.