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Montevideo, May 27th 2025 - 20:09 UTC

Environment

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2025 - 09:40 UTC

    Falklands Peatlands Project, progress and updates

    The team visited our field sites nearly 200 times, spent over 100 days out in the field, and collected almost 3,000 chamber flux measurements!

    Dr. Valeria Mazzola - It is hard to believe, but the Falkland Peatlands Project has officially marked its first year—and what a year it’s been! From day one, it’s been an incredibly dynamic and action-packed journey.

  • Wednesday, April 2nd 2025 - 09:24 UTC

    Panama Canal announces preferential treatment for low-carbon emission vessels

    The initiative will become effective on Oct. 5, with a new phase scheduled for next year

    The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) is launching a sustainability initiative by introducing the “NetZero Slot,” an exclusive transit quota for low-carbon emission vessels starting October 5, 2025, in a move to reduce the environmental impact of maritime trade.

  • Thursday, March 27th 2025 - 14:30 UTC

    Off South Georgia, world’s largest iceberg disintegrating

    Southwest of South Georgia and stretching further than the eye can see, Iceberg A23a is 40 miles wide and a total of 3,100 Sq Km, making it larger than Greater London.

  • Thursday, March 27th 2025 - 09:51 UTC

    Emergency decreed in Bolivia due to heavy rains

    The last rainy season, which began in November 2023 and ended in April 2024, left a total of 55 dead.(Pic EFE)

    Bolivian President Luis Arce Catacora Wednesday declared a nationwide emergency due to severe natural disasters caused by unprecedented rainfall across all nine departments in the country. The move seeks to expedite aid, enable exceptional purchases, secure external funding, and mobilize resources to address the crisis.

  • Wednesday, March 26th 2025 - 05:38 UTC

    Falklands, Uruguayan scientists talk on advanced technology for wildlife conservation

    The official poster inviting to the talk this Wednesday at 17:00 in Falkland College

    Two advanced students from the School of Electronic Engineering from the main government university in Uruguay, Universidad de la Republica, are currently in the Falkland Islands and will be giving an insightful talk on AURORA, a solar powered wildlife monitoring device, this Wednesday March 26, at 17:00 hour in the Falkland College.

  • Tuesday, March 25th 2025 - 10:08 UTC

    Southern Chile hit by ravaging fires

    A red alert has been declared, and authorities are coordinating the fire extinguishing and relief efforts

    Forest fires in south-central Chile have caused widespread destruction over the past few days in multiple regions, such as La Araucanía, Biobío, Ñuble, and Los Ríos, with more than 15,000 hectares ravaged.

  • Tuesday, March 25th 2025 - 08:21 UTC

    Non-flying birds relocated from Argentina to Chile where they neared extinction

    Choiques are non-flying birds playing a key role in distributing seeds in their long-distance displacements

    Conservationist groups from Chile and Argentina have undertaken a project to transfer 15 Patagonian rheas (also known as choiques) from Argentina’s Patagonia Park in Santa Cruz to Chile’s Patagonia National Park in the Aysén Region, in an initiative led by Rewilding organizations of both countries and supported by the Tompkins Conservation Foundation.

  • Monday, March 24th 2025 - 08:58 UTC

    South Georgia’s ground-fish survey reveals key insights of marine life

    Jaimie Cleeland, BAS. Classifying some of the species

    The waters surrounding South Georgia, nestled beneath glaciated mountains, are among the most biologically rich in the Southern Ocean. In February, a team of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and international institutions embarked on an important research expedition to explore the diverse marine life – including ground-fish – thriving 300 meters below the surface.

  • Monday, March 24th 2025 - 08:53 UTC

    Unexpected forms of life found under loose Antarctica iceberg

    Researchers were skeptical about any major discoveries so their findings came “by chance”

    Researchers found unimagined forms of life under the A-84 iceberg nearly 30 kilometers long and 510 square kilometers in area, which broke off from the George VI Ice Shelf in Antarctica earlier this year, exposing a previously hidden stretch of ocean unseen for decades, it was announced last week.

  • Thursday, March 20th 2025 - 20:03 UTC

    Amazon railroad project faces ballooning costs and environmental concerns

    Ferrogrão solves no logistical issues while creating significant problems instead

    New data provided by researchers from the University of São Paulo, the Federal University of Minas Gerais, and environmental groups like the Climate Observatory showed that the Ferrogrão railroad, a 933-kilometer project linking Mato Grosso’s grain-producing region to Atlantic ports, could cause significantly greater environmental damage than previously estimated. The study criticizes the government’s feasibility analysis, conducted under former President Jair Bolsonaro, for underestimating deforestation risks and cumulative impacts, especially in the Amazon rainforest and indigenous areas.