Stories for 2025

Tuesday, November 4th 2025 - 09:18 UTC
Considerable shrinking of Antarctic glacier reported

Experts have expressed their concern after a study revealed that the Hektoria Glacier in eastern Antarctica retreated by 50% in just two months —between November and December 2022— losing 8.2 kilometers of ice. This rate of ice loss is nearly ten times faster than previously measured for land-based glaciers, setting a new record.
Tuesday, November 4th 2025 - 08:34 UTC
Falklands, Lloyds Bank interested in operating in the Islands

The Falkland Islands Government has published a notice in the Penguin News saying that “there will be a public meeting held on Wednesday, 5th November 2025 at 5pm in the Court & Assembly Chamber.
Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 20:05 UTC
US Navy's and Royal Navy begin trials with un-crewed vessels

USX-1 Defiant is a prototype of the US program to develop autonomous vessels with no need for physical crews. She is the first US naval surface vessel ever built to operate without room or provisions for human crew.
Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 19:52 UTC
Discovery Building, a milestone for Rothera Base and BAS in Antarctica

The 2025/2026 Antarctic season is a landmark for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and its Antarctic Infrastructure Modernization Project (AIMP), as the new Discovery Building begins to take on its operational role. Specialist teams will be on site from this month to check the building’s critical systems are working as expected and to carefully manage the removal of six older structures, the functions of which are now integrated within the Discovery Building.
Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:55 UTC
Maduro's days in power “are numbered,” says Trump

US President Donald Trump suggested in a TV interview on Sunday that Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro's time in power is limited. However, he downplayed the likelihood of the United States' engaging in a war with the South American country. Asked whether the United States would go to war with Venezuela, Trump replied, “I doubt it. I don't think so.”
Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:21 UTC
The Guardian highlights the hardships Argentines go through under Milei

Despite President Javier Milei's success in significantly lowering annual inflation from over 211% in 2023 to 32% by September 2025, a majority of Argentines are struggling as their purchasing power has collapsed under the administration's “chainsaw” austerity program, the London outlet The Guardian noted.
Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:19 UTC
Milei picks Santilli as new Interior Minister

Argentine President Javier Milei announced Sunday that he would be appointing newly elected Congressman Diego Santilli as his administration's new Interior Minister following the resignation of Lisandro Catalán.
Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:16 UTC
School attack in Buenos Aires foiled by FBI tip

A Neo-Nazi teenager has been arrested in the middle-class Caballito neighborhood in Buenos Aires, where he was planning a school massacre, as the evidence garnered at the scene would corroborate. The suspect was making arrangements to strike his former high school, which were foiled following a tip from the FBI.
Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:14 UTC
All eyes on Uruguay's volunteers for euthanasia

The cases of Uruguayan nationals Pablo Cánepa, 39, and Beatriz Gelós, 71, have swept under the limelight following the enactment of the so-called Dignified Death Law bill (or Euthanasia Law). They both suffer from conditions recognized as irreversible and have expressed their intention to seek that procedure once it is finally regulated. Their cases were even mentioned in the parliamentary debate leading to the reform.
Monday, November 3rd 2025 - 10:08 UTC
Supermarket blast leaves at least 23 dead in Mexico

At least 23 people died and 12 others were injured after an explosion on Saturday at a supermarket in the Mexican city of Hermosillo, the capital of the State of Sonora.