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Montevideo, February 9th 2026 - 22:37 UTC

Environment

  • Tuesday, April 8th 2014 - 07:46 UTC

    Record breaking downpour causes flashfloods and mudslides in seven Argentine provinces

    In some places rainfall registered was almost the annual average

    More than 3.000 people have been forced to abandon their homes in Argentina as torrential rains and flash floods in the last 24 hours hit at least seven provinces. Classes have been suspended, as well as public transport and so have some of the main highways.

  • Saturday, April 5th 2014 - 03:31 UTC

    IAATO moves their office to Newport, Rhode Island

    The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) which currently has 116 members, announced that their office has moved from Providence to Newport, Rhode Island.

  • Saturday, April 5th 2014 - 03:05 UTC

    The most profitable gas in the world

    Privatizing the pipelines system could raise 50 billion dollars.

    By Robert Bensh of Oilprice.com - There is only one certainty in Ukraine: The energy sector must and will be transformed, and how long this takes will depend on who ends up in the driver's seat and how serious they are about becoming a part of Europe and reducing dependence on Russia. But by then, investors will have missed the boat.

  • Friday, April 4th 2014 - 07:41 UTC

    White House targets methane emissions

    According to the White House, 36% of methane emissions come from agriculture.

    By Nicholas Cunningham of Oilprice.com - On March 28, the White House released a multi-pronged strategy to reduce methane emissions from a variety of sources, a step the administration says is an outgrowth of the President's Climate Action Plan announced last year. Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, about 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide.

  • Friday, April 4th 2014 - 05:01 UTC

    Chile assesses extent of earthquake damage; police and military ensure order

    Chilean authorities proved to be well organized to face the telluric episodes in one of the most geological vulnerable areas

    Coastal residents of Chile’s far north spent a second sleepless night outside their homes as major aftershocks continued Thursday following a magnitude-8.2 earthquake that damaged several thousand homes and caused six deaths. But no new major damage or casualties were reported, and a heavy police and military presence kept order.

  • Thursday, April 3rd 2014 - 06:58 UTC

    Powerful 7.8 magnitude aftershock hits Chile's far north and south Peru

    A second sleepless night away from home for many people

    A powerful 7.8-magnitude aftershock hit Chile's far-northern coast on Wednwsday, shaking the same area where a magnitude-8.2 earthquake hit just a day before causing some damage and six deaths.

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2014 - 07:20 UTC

    Earthquake in Chile kills five; north of the country with no power or water

    The magnitude 8.2 earthquake was centered 61 miles northwest of Iquique, next to Chile's main copper mining area

    A strong 8.2-magnitude earthquake has struck off the northwestern coast of Chile, killing at least five people and setting off a small tsunami that prompted evacuations along the country's Pacific coast. Chilean Interior minister Rodrigo Peñalillo confirmed that five people had died, “four are men and a woman in Iquique and Alto Hospicio, caused by heart attack and crushing”.

  • Monday, March 31st 2014 - 16:29 UTC

    Japan abides International Court of Justice ruling to halt whaling program

    Presiding Judge Peter Tomka said the court had decided, by 12 votes to four, that Japan should withdraw all permits and licenses for whaling in the Antarctic

    The UN's International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that Japan must temporarily halt its whaling program in the Antarctic. It agreed with Australia, which brought the case in May 2010, that the program was not for scientific research as claimed by Tokyo.

  • Friday, March 28th 2014 - 19:36 UTC

    EU sanitary delegation to inspect Argentina's fishing industry whole cycle

    The use of additives and other products are expected to be closely monitored by the EU sanitary delegation

    Delegates from the European Union (EU) are to visit Argentina between September and December later this year to inspect the facilities that comprise the whole fishing production circuit: docks, boats, processing plants authorized to export to EU and offices of the National Service of Agri-food health and quality, (Senasa).

  • Tuesday, March 25th 2014 - 22:20 UTC

    South Georgia reindeer eradication project to recover natural environment almost completed

    Reindeer were introduced in the island in the early 1900's to feed whalers

    After many years of planning, and two field seasons on the ground, the main part of the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands, SGSSI, Reindeer Eradication Project is now all but done, according to the latest South Georgia newsletter. An estimated 3.140 animals have been sacrificed over a six-week period.