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Montevideo, July 21st 2025 - 11:57 UTC

Environment

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    The astonishing sagacity and intelligence of Falklands Caracaras revealed in an IFLScience report

    The Striated caracaras will eat whatever is going on, including penguins (and their eggs) and seal pups

    Scientists challenging the problem-solving capacities of rare birds of prey on the Falkland Islands have found them astonishingly quick to learn when food is on offer – and remember those skills a year later. The finding supports Darwin’s assessment of the birds’ remarkable intelligence when he visited during the voyage of the Beagle, and also shows the sorts of intelligence we most admire are more widespread among birds than has previously been acknowledged.

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 10:00 UTC

    Drones and images from space to count elephant seals in South Georgia

    Elephant seals viewed from a drone on South Georgia (Pic BAS)

    A team of researchers are using drones and satellite images from space to count southern elephant seals on the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia. Using remotely piloted aerial systems (RPAS) to capture detailed ‘on the ground’ photos; the team will compare these with satellite imagery taken from space. This work will update the last island-wide census, conducted nearly 30-years ago.

  • Thursday, November 21st 2024 - 09:03 UTC

    Chubut court releases Punta Tombo Massacre perpetrator on parole

    In the end, La Regina will not go to jail

    Chubut agribusinessman Ricardo La Regina was handed down a three-year sentence by a three-judge court in the city of Rawson for the 2021 killing of a colony of Magellanic penguins in the Punta Tombo reservation.

  • Wednesday, November 20th 2024 - 09:41 UTC

    Lula urges developed countries to up their climate contributions

    “These trillions exist, but they are being wasted on armaments, while the planet is in agony,” Lula argued

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio da Silva insisted Tuesday that G20 developed countries should bring forward by up to ten years the climate neutrality targets currently set for 2050, Agencia Brasil reported. He made those remarks during his appearance at the Group's Summit in Rio de Janeiro. “To the developed members of the G20, I propose that you bring forward your climate neutrality targets from 2050 to 2040 or even 2045,” Lula stressed during a panel on sustainable development and energy transition.

  • Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 21:15 UTC

    Paraguayan President says he is okay after Monday's hospitalization

    Peña shifted the spotlight from his health crisis onto sporting events

    Paraguayan President Santiago Peña Tuesday shared a video message on social media saying he had fully recovered from Monday's health crisis that had him hospitalized while attending the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro.

  • Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 09:47 UTC

    US to release aid package for Brazilian Amazon

    The announcement was made during Biden't trip to Manaus ahead of the G20 Summit in Rio

    The United States offered an aid package for environmental actions in the Brazilian Amazon to address climate change, it was announced Monday during President Joseph Biden's visit to Manaus as part of his journey to the country for the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Agencia Brasil reported. The first trip by a sitting US president to the region marked celebrations of 200 years of diplomatic relations between the two countries.

  • Tuesday, November 19th 2024 - 08:46 UTC

    Global warming and the burning issue of money

    Baku had the money to host around 50,000 government officials, think-tank policy wonks, investors and campaigners (plus a few climate scientists) for two weeks

    By Gwynne Dyer - It's hard to imagine a less plausible venue for the annual UN-sponsored conference on climate than the dictatorial petro-state of Azerbaijan. Baku, the capital, has a walled medieval center that's worth a day or two, but offshore the shallow Caspian Sea is littered with a century's worth of old and new oil wells.

  • Monday, November 18th 2024 - 21:59 UTC

    Argentina becomes newest founding member of Lula's alliance against hunger

    Milei is now expected to agree with other Brazilian initiatives within the G20 Summit

    Javier Milei's Argentina became after last-minute negotiations the 82nd country to join the Global Alliance against Hunger and Poverty, Brazil's initiative launched during the two-day G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. With Buenos Aires' decision, no G20 country stayed out of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's partnership which is also made up of the African Union and the European Union, in addition to 9 financial institutions, 24 international organizations, and 31 philanthropic and non-governmental entities, totaling 148 founding members.

  • Monday, November 18th 2024 - 08:30 UTC

    La Niña threatens this year's soybean crop in Paraguay

    Some rain has fallen but still below average so the deficit remains

    Paraguayan soybean producers warned this weekend that the La Niña weather phenomenon may affect this year's crop while the 2023/24 harvest is expected to reach a record in tons produced and exported, it was reported in Asunción.

  • Saturday, November 16th 2024 - 10:27 UTC

    Brazil submits climate plan for approaching years

    “Brazil is moving away from a denialist model and taking a leading role in the fight against climate change,” VP Alckmin told attendees at the Baku event

    Brazil's delegation before the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference of Parties 29 (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, Friday pledged to abide by the new carbon reduction target set at the gathering, Agencia Brasil reported. South America's largest country was the second nation to submit a climate plan for the third generation of the Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which defines the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to be achieved by 2035.