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Montevideo, January 21st 2026 - 03:03 UTC

Environment

  • Sunday, September 14th 2025 - 14:40 UTC

    Falklands agriculture, grants for the Land Recovery Program

    Some of the eroded shore line in islands of the archipelago recovered with Tussock grass tufts

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) Department of Agriculture has launched a new Land Recovery Program (LRP), inviting proposals for applied research and demonstration projects that will help restore and protect the Islands’ farmland.

  • Saturday, September 6th 2025 - 09:25 UTC

    Most of Chile going back to summer daylight saving time zone

    However, the move does not apply evenly nationwide

    Most of Chile will switch to daylight saving time by setting clocks forward one hour on Saturday after 11.59 pm, when it will be 1 am, Sunday. This change moves the country's time zone from winter time (UTC-4) to summer time (UTC-3), which will result in longer afternoons.

  • Tuesday, September 2nd 2025 - 19:10 UTC

    Uruguay signs Council of Europe’s Global AI Treaty

    The treaty was signed in Strasbourg by Montevideo's Ambassador to Paris, Enrique Emilio Loedel Soca

    Uruguay signed the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, the first-ever international legally binding treaty aimed at ensuring that the use of AI systems is fully consistent with human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.

  • Thursday, August 28th 2025 - 10:10 UTC

    Brazilian and French scientists tackle climate change in Amazon

    Tackling climate change has strengthened ties between Brazil and France

    Researchers from France and Brazil are meeting this week in Belém, in the State of Pará, to launch a new season of the Amazon Connections Seminar addressing the planet’s future from scientific, cultural, and political perspectives. The gathering will span until Aug. 29 at the Emílio Goeldi Museum in Belém, the host city of COP30, as part of the bilateral agenda held each year in two seasons—one in each country.

  • Sunday, August 24th 2025 - 09:57 UTC

    Given scarce resources, Darwin Plus is contacting directly on Round 13 shortlisted projects

    Darwin Plus, under ODA has benefited and included the Falkland Islands with 43 programs, helping with resources to manage them

    The UK government Darwin Plus grants scheme helps deliver long-term strategic outcomes for the unique biodiversity, the natural environment and improving resilience to climate change within the UK Overseas Territories.

  • Saturday, August 23rd 2025 - 12:15 UTC

    Amazonia Summit countries pass Bogotá Declaration

    The document provides for coordinated joint environmental actions

    Leaders of Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela on Friday approved the Bogotá Declaration, a document that establishes a unified position for COP30, scheduled for November 10-21 in Belém do Pará, Brazil.

  • Thursday, August 21st 2025 - 10:25 UTC

    Scientists on a joint expedition to “visualize the deep off the Uruguayan coast”

    R/V Falkor (Too) from the California based Schmidt Ocean Institute is hosting a team of scientists from Uruguay’s main University for a month long expedition

    This Next Friday August 22nd, R/V Falkor (too) from the California based Schmidt Ocean Institute, departs with a team of scientists from Uruguay’s main University for a month long expedition to “visualize the deep off the Uruguayan coast”.

  • Thursday, August 21st 2025 - 09:19 UTC

    Falklands, BFSAI and MPA capabilities in the challenging winter conditions

    An RAF transport parked at MPA in a typical South Atlantic winter weather night

    Whilst personnel in the UK are enduring yet another heatwave in 2025, Royal Air Force Service Personnel on the other side of the world are experiencing quite the opposite!

  • Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 10:00 UTC

    Tsunami ruled out in Chile after earthquake

    The SHOA ruled out the chance after properly monitoring the events in the Drake Sea

    A 5.7-magnitude earthquake was reported early Tuesday in the Drake Sea, with its epicenter located 249 kilometers south of Puerto Williams, in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region. Following the seismic event, the Chilean Navy's Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy (SHOA) ruled out any possibility of a tsunami affecting the Chilean coast.

  • Monday, August 18th 2025 - 09:31 UTC

    Al Gore says Washington has “schizophrenic” approach to climate change

    It's crazy to allow polluters to write the rules,” Gore argued

    During his recent trip to Brazil, former US Vice President Al Gore said that his country's stance on the climate crisis was “schizophrenic,” changing from one view to another, depending on who ruled. In his first term in office, between 2017 and 2021, Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement, whose main objective is to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But then came Joseph Biden, and the country returned to the agreement, only to pull out yet again with Trump's second term.