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Montevideo, October 21st 2025 - 02:14 UTC

Environment

  • Friday, September 27th 2024 - 08:14 UTC

    Falklands, winners of regional student competition who will spend a week in the Islands

    The incredible King penguins of which several rookeries exist in the Islands

    The Falkland Islands Government and the British Embassies in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay are delighted to announce the winners of this year’s regional student competition. Participants from the four countries were asked to submit a short video in English, in which they answered the question: “Why would I like to meet my neighbours in the Falkland Islands?”.

  • Thursday, September 26th 2024 - 14:37 UTC

    Eleven people arrested in Argentine province of Córdoba for starting wildfires

    Quinteros stressed that 99% of the fires were man-caused

    At least 11 people have been arrested in the Argentine province of Córdoba for their alleged involvement in starting the current which elicited President Javier Milei's presence late Wednesday. Córdoba Security Minister Juan Pablo Quinteros has already admitted that “fires, in 99% of the cases, are started by human hands.”

  • Thursday, September 26th 2024 - 10:45 UTC

    Poor rain forecast heralds low water levels for Paraguay River until December

    “We are now with a flow of 900 m³ per second, which is very low. The Paraguay River has a normal flow of over 4,000 m³ per second,” Martínez explained

    Poor rainfalls are expected to keep affecting the already low Paraguay River, according to local and foreign experts who gathered Wednesday in Asunción at the invitation of the Meteorology and Hydrology Directorate (DMH). Hence, there were no encouraging forecasts at least until December this year.

  • Thursday, September 26th 2024 - 10:32 UTC

    Quito fires lead Noboa to cancel UN engagements and return to Ecuador

    At least six people were killed in the Ecuadorean capital

    Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa Wednesday halted his agenda in New York and returned to his country after a suspect was arrested in connecting with arson maneuvers in Quito that have the country's capital under fire. The head of state also explained that terrorism charges would be filed against the perpetrator, who would thus face between 10 to 13 years in prison.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 16:16 UTC

    UK Antarctic Science Conference at BAS, Cambridge

    Falklands MLA Mark Pollard and FIG Office London Representative during a recent visit to BAS, closely linked to the Falklands

    The British Antarctic Survey, BAS, has announced that the UK Antarctic Science Conference 2024 will take place at the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge, 1st – 3rd October 2024. The meeting aims to bring together all in the UK who are involved in Antarctic research or the support of Antarctic research.

  • Friday, September 20th 2024 - 10:06 UTC

    Water deficit places Ecuador under “red alert”

    Some 77,000 troops were deployed to protect Ecuador's key sites during nighttime blackouts

    A red alert has been declared in several parts of Ecuador hit by an unprecedented drought that resulted among other things in mass power cuts in a country already hit by spreading forest fires.

  • Tuesday, September 17th 2024 - 10:40 UTC

    Uruguayan Air Force C-130 back from firefighting mission in Paraguay

    The FAU aircraft dropped US-developed “Guardian” boxed with 1,000 liters of water each

    A Uruguayan Air Force (FAU) Hercules C-130 four-engined turboprop aircraft landed back in Montevideo Monday after participating in a firefighting mission in Paraguay. The cooperation consisted mainly of dropping firefighting boxes in the northern Paraguayan Chaco where over 180,000 hectares were engulfed by the flames.

  • Tuesday, September 17th 2024 - 10:37 UTC

    At least 15 dead in Peruvian forest fires

    Efforts from ill-equipped local communities are not enough. Help from Lima and abroad is very much needed

    At least 15 people have died as a result of uncontrollable forest fires that have affected 22 of Peru's 24 departments. Peru's National Civil Defense Institute (Indeci) said that the departments of Cuzco, Cajamarca, Huancavelica, and Huánuco were the worst affected areas. In the Amazonas region, authorities are already talking of a “catastrophe” in the midst of a historic drought after three months without rain.

  • Monday, September 16th 2024 - 14:51 UTC

    Brazil gripped by “climate terrorism,” says Minister Silva

    There are people acting deliberately to create chaos in Brazil, Silva stressed

    South America's largest country is going through a wave of 21st Century “terrorism” which capitalizes on the high temperatures and low humidity to set large areas on fire damaging people's health, biodiversity and destroying forests, Climate Change Minister Marina Silva sqaid Sunday, Agencia Brasil reported. The official referred to this phenomenon as “climate terrorism.”

  • Saturday, September 14th 2024 - 09:28 UTC

    Bolivian President to oversee firefighting efforts in Beni

    “Tomorrow our brother President Luis Arce will be present in the Benian capital,” Defense Minister Novillo explained

    Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora will personally oversee firefighting and relief efforts in the department of Beni, where eight of the 19 municipalities are affected by the dense smoke caused by the environmental crisis. Arce will arrive Saturday in the city of Trinidad, the capital of the department where the presence of a Venezuelan team of 61 firefighters and other types of humanitarian aid are also expected.