Environment

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Peru wants Repsol to pay damages for oil spill amid Tonga volcano eruption

  

  Peru's Foreign Ministry Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Spanish oil company Repsol for damages caused by a spill in Ventanilla, in the province Callao province.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Tonga vulcano eruption 500 times stronger than Hiroshima bomb

  

  A NASA scientist has compared this weekend's volcanic eruption off Tonga with the atomic bomb dropped by the United States at the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 and said the recent episode was “500 times” worse.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  New major volcanic eruption detected in Tonga

  

  Two days after a first volcanic eruption not far from Tonga led to the death of two women in Peru, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center detected large waves in the area, which “could be from another explosion,” it was reported.

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 20:35 UTC

  Montevideo under water following unprecedented heavy rains

  

  Some areas in the city of Montevideo dawned Monday literally under water following unprecedented heavy rains which caused damages to various homes and a traffic chaos, in addition to power outages, which reportedly affected some 12,000 users.

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Tsunami leaves two dead in Peru

  

  Two people have died in Peru this weekend as a consequence of the eruption of a volcano in Tonga which resulted in a strong wave hitting the Nyalamp beach near the northwestern city of Lambayeque, it was reported.

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:37 UTC

  Which is the world's most southern city?

  

  Which is the world's most southern city? Or which is the city closest to Antarctica. Somewhere in the southern tip of South America, be it Argentina or Chile. And the usual answer is Ushuaia in Tierra del Fuego, which Argentines recognize as the gate to Antarctica.

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:31 UTC

  Ecuador extends Galapagos reserve forming a string of protected areas along the Pacific to Central America

  

  Ecuador has created the marine reserve north of the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific helping to form a ring of protected areas, along the South American north Pacific rim that will include Colombia's Malpeso island, Panama's Coiba islands and Costa Rica Cocos islands.

• Thursday, January 13th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Paraguay lowers expectations on soy due to drought

  

  Paraguay's Agriculture Ministry has announced between 6 and 7 million tons of soybeans were to be harvested this season against the original projections of 10 million due to the unprecedented weather conditions.

• Wednesday, January 12th 2022 - 20:05 UTC

  Heat wave could raise temperatures to nearly 50ºC in South America

  

  An unprecedented heat wave is going through South America and some cities in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay have been forecast to be looking out for temperatures around 50ºC, it was reported, while 40ºC seems to have become the new normal.

• Tuesday, January 11th 2022 - 20:19 UTC

  Consecutive fires hit Chilean town of Iquique

  

  A fire in Iquique, in the Tarapacá region, has left some 400 Chileans homeless, including 15 injured Monday, but no fatalities were reported. But when things seemed to be getting back to normal, a second fire not far from the previous one added to the locals' nightmare.