Environment

• Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Gas tanker runs aground in River Plate, stirs memories of Suez canal incident

  

  The Norwegian-flagged Hoegh Esperanza ship ran aground en route to Escobar in the shallow waters of the River Plate and needed to be towed out of its predicament so that navigation could resume.

• Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 07:44 UTC

  Argentina eolic power satisfied 24% of domestic electricity demand during July

  

  More than 24% of electric power demand in windy Argentina was supplied by eolic energy during the month of July, which is considered a historic record when it comes to renewable energies, pointed out by the country's Energy Secretariat.

• Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 07:29 UTC

  Italy determined to save “Patriarch” a millennial olive tree

  

  Italy is determined to save Patriarch, a millennial olive tree which the forest fires in Sardinia have devoured, but has mobilized tens of experts to try and recover this rare botanic antiquity. Patriarch is a wild olive, with a ten meters circumference trunk, some seventeen meters high which was almost completely destroyed by fire.

• Thursday, July 29th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Cold wave brings snow to several Brazilian cities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul

  

  At least 13 cities in the Brazilian State of Río Grande do Sul Wednesday recorded snowfalls, a rare event for the region, but one that has come to be due to this year's harsh winter temperatures.

• Thursday, July 29th 2021 - 07:39 UTC

  Chilean agriculture short of manpower: some crops could remain without harvesting

  

  Chile's National Agriculture Society, SNA, has warned that up to 30% of crops could remain without harvesting because of a lack of manpower. SNA head Cristian Allendes participated in a conference on the labor problem and incentives to attract people to work in the fields, which was presented under the title of “How is the 2020/21 season coming along?”.

• Wednesday, July 28th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  Meteorologists meet to prepare report for the UN Glasgow climate change negotiations summit

  

  The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, opened its meeting on Monday to approve its next report on the physical science basis of climate change, the first part of the Sixth Assessment Report.

• Tuesday, July 27th 2021 - 07:20 UTC

  Raisins, victim of the chaotic climate conditions

  

  Chaotic climate conditions are having an impact on agriculture worldwide and in Chile the most recent victim of instability are raisins. Last January when grapes are expected to mature and develop a high content of sugar, torrential rains hit Chile's wines, and the excess of water harmed a high percentage of the harvest.

• Monday, July 26th 2021 - 18:05 UTC

  Orcas sighted off the coast of Argentine province of Rio Negro

  

  A calf of killer whales only a few days old has been sighted for the first time off the Punta Bermeja area, on the Rio Negro coast, leading specialists to speculate that its parents would not be far away.

• Monday, July 26th 2021 - 17:34 UTC

  Nobel Foundation divests from contaminating industries: sells coal and oil shares

  

  The Nobel Foundation which funds and organizes the Nobel Prizes announced it was selling all of its assets in the petroleum industry, following on similar actions regarding coal, and other contaminating industries.

• Monday, July 26th 2021 - 08:46 UTC

  “State of Hydric Emergency” decreed throughout Argentine provinces within the Parana river basin

  

  Argentina Sunday declared a “water emergency” due to the historic downspout in the Paraná river.