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Montevideo, December 2nd 2025 - 05:42 UTC

Environment

  • Wednesday, November 19th 2025 - 11:27 UTC

    Argentina: El Pedregoso area in Chubut under fire

    The incident follows a recent declaration of a fire emergency in the provinces of Chubut and Río Negro

    A large-scale operation involving nearly 200 personnel is struggling to contain an active forest fire that broke out Monday in the El Pedregoso area, within the jurisdiction of Epuyén, Chubut province. Difficult geography and adverse weather conditions are severely complicating containment efforts.

  • Wednesday, November 19th 2025 - 11:26 UTC

    Paraguay: 700 families left homeless by storm

    Undone repair works have kept relief teams from providing adequate assistance

    A severe storm system swept across central and southern Paraguay over the weekend, generating destructive winds and causing widespread damage. Additionally, separate, sustained rainfall in the Chaco region threatens to isolate communities due to impassable roads.

  • Monday, November 17th 2025 - 21:26 UTC

    Falklands Postal Service releases set of Aurora Australis stamps

    The aurora is one of the most awe-inspiring natural phenomena visible from Earth. It is so dramatic that many people, even those with only a passing interest in astronomy, really want to see it. Many organized trips, cruises, and flights are arranged to see the popular and stunning sight of the aurora.

  • Monday, November 17th 2025 - 21:16 UTC

    Avian flu decimates seal elephant population in South Georgia; few survivors emerge in Uruguayan beaches

    Newly born pup Francine, at a beach in Piriapolis along the Uruguayan coast line

    In the last few months there have been at least twenty incidents of elephant seals emerging along Uruguayan beaches, both females and males, and allegedly they belong to “deep South species”, according to local environmental and animal protection organizations such as “FaunaMarinaSOS”.

  • Friday, November 14th 2025 - 20:58 UTC

    Mining company accountable for dam collapse in Brazil

    The collapse of the Fundão Dam killed 19 people

    The High Court of Justice in London found on Friday that the English mining company BHP was accountable for the collapse of the Fundão Dam in the city of Mariana, in the Brazilian State of Minas Gerais, ten years ago. The company is a shareholder of Samarco, which was responsible for the disaster.

  • Thursday, November 13th 2025 - 10:55 UTC

    After violent storms, Brazil faces ongoing cyclone threat — severe weather also forecast in Argentina

    A cyclone is a vast area of low atmospheric pressure that can span thousands of kilometers

    Following a powerful extratropical cyclone that swept across south-central Brazil last week —bringing heavy storms and a tornado that devastated parts of Paraná and Santa Catarina— meteorologists are warning that the country faces a continued risk of similar weather events through the end of the year.

  • Thursday, November 13th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    California Governor becomes most famous US COP30 attendee

    Newsom is already hailed as a potential presidential candidate

    California Governor Gavin Newsom has emerged as an unexpected focal point and “anti-Trump” figure at the COP30 climate conference in Belém, capitalizing on the absence of the self-proclaimed climate change skeptic US President Donald Trump.

  • Wednesday, November 12th 2025 - 09:59 UTC

    Incidents reported outside COP30 hosting site

    At least one security guard was injured

    Demonstrators clashed with law enforcement on Tuesday in Belém outside the so-called Blue Zone, where COP30 negotiations are taking place. The area was closed after a group of protesters tried to enter the site, but were kept at bay by security guards forming human chains. At least one guard was injured.

  • Tuesday, November 11th 2025 - 10:59 UTC

    COP30 starts in Belem with a focus on accelerated global warming

    Some 50 presidents and heads of state will participate at the meeting in the coming days

    The 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change officially kicked off in the city of Belém (Brazil), marking the first time the global climate summit has been held in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. The meeting, set to run for two weeks, brings together world leaders from 163 countries to address the urgent crisis of global warming.

  • Monday, November 10th 2025 - 08:28 UTC

    At least 6 killed as deadly tornado hits Brazilian town

    Integration and Regional Development Minister Waldez Góes said on Sunday that it was still not possible to measure all the damage caused by the tornado in Rio Bonito do Iguaçu

    Authorities in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná have declared a State of Public Disaster in the municipality of Rio Bonito do Iguaçu following a catastrophic tornado that struck on Friday night, leaving six people dead and causing widespread destruction.