Stories for 2010

Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 21:00 UTC
Uruguay’s and Argentina celebrate Court’s ruling on pulp mill dispute

Much as was anticipated, Uruguay and Argentina celebrated as favourable the ruling of the International court of Justice regarding a long standing pulp mills dispute, while environmentalists were totally disappointed and promised to continue and intensify their protests and pickets.
Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 19:39 UTC
Chile surveying glaciers to gauge extent of climate change impact

Academics from around the world are taking an interest in Chile’s glaciers. A team of Canadian, French and Chilean experts have been working in Punta Negra, located in the Laguna Negra section of Cajon de Maipo (south of Santiago) since 2003, following both covered glaciers and those known as rock glaciers.
Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 17:31 UTC
Strong reference to the Falklands at Venezuela’s dawn of ‘a new independence’

Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called on Monday for the end to the Falklands/Malvinas “colonial enclave”, as she forecasted from Venezuela, standing as a privileged guest next to Hugo Chavez, that Latinamerica is in the process of a “second independence”.
Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 16:35 UTC
Chavez marks “true-independence” with impressive military and militias’ parade

Venezuela kicked off celebrations marking 200 years of struggle for independence with an impressive several hour long military parade. Recently-acquired Chinese K-8 planes and Russian Sukhoi-30 fighter aircraft swooped through the sky during a lavish military parade in Caracas, as soldiers from Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Cuba, Libya, Nicaragua and Russia joined those on the ground.
Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 16:21 UTC
Bolivia organizes grassroots alternative to UN climate change

Delegates are gathering in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba for a grassroots alternative to last year's UN climate change summit in Copenhagen. The meeting will also celebrate the rights of Mother Earth on 22 April.
Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 15:55 UTC
Farming nations meet in Uruguay in anticipation of G-20 summit

The world's large economies could make progress to revive stalled world trade talks at two G20 summits later this year, officials from farming nations said on Monday at a two-day meeting in Uruguay.
Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 14:59 UTC
Argentina hosts FAO summit on fish and seafood trade

The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) are convening an international meeting on trade in fish and seafood to be hosted by in the Argentine government Buenos Aires 26-30 April.
Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 14:56 UTC
Chile is the world’s leader in star gazing with the most powerful telescopes

Many of the world’s largest investments in the field of astronomy can be found in Chile for the same reasons that Cerro Armazones, in the Antofagasta region, may become home to a new telescope that would produce images 15 times shaper than the Hubble telescope.
Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 14:42 UTC
UK economy recovery forecasted towards the end of 2011

Prospects for the UK's economic recovery remain poor this year with output growth of 1% or less predicted in 2010, a leading forecaster has warned. It also suggested that although consumer spending is on the rise, it will remain too weak to sustain a recovery this year as consumers try to pay off debts as quickly as possible.
Tuesday, April 20th 2010 - 14:35 UTC
Alarming contraction of hake biomass in Argentine breeding grounds

The breeding grounds of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) located in the San Jorge gulf, Argentine Patagonia are showing alarming signs of a loss of biomass, concludes a report authored by the National Institute for Fisheries Research and Development, (INIDEP).