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Montevideo, June 9th 2025 - 21:25 UTC

Health & Science

  • Friday, July 28th 2023 - 10:39 UTC

    Uruguay: Desalination plant arrives from United States to fight the water crisis

    The unit did not fit into the aircraft and had to be carried by ship

    Uruguayan authorities Thursday confirmed the arrival in Montevideo of a desalination plant bought in the United States to fight the water crisis hitting the country. The piece of equipment was expected to take about four weeks to be delivered from Houston, but in the end, it was over two months.

  • Wednesday, July 26th 2023 - 10:42 UTC

    Bolivian gas production and exports forecasted to drop dramatically by 2030

    According to Wood Mackenzie, Bolivia’s natural gas production is expected to fall from 39 million cubic meters per day in 2022 to 11 million cubic meters/day in 2030.

    Bolivia may shift from being an exporter of natural gas to Brazil and Argentina to becoming an importer by 2030. A report by British energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie indicates that Bolivia’s natural gas production will decline faster than expected. The reason is the aging of the country’s production fields and the absence of new discoveries.

  • Wednesday, July 26th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

    Brazil working on satellite partnership with NASA

    “This is a proposal that the NASA administrator brought on the visit to President Lula,” Santos explained

    Brazilian Science Minister Luciana Santos Tuesday launched a proposition to United States Space Agency (NASA) Administrator Bill Nelson for both countries to develop together new satellites and aerospace technologies to monitor deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, Agencia Brasil reported.

  • Monday, July 24th 2023 - 10:45 UTC

    Sixty years compilation of research on Antarctic ice and topography

    A plane flies over Thwaites Glacier. Photo credit BAS.

    In a significant milestone for Antarctic research, detailed and extensive information on ice thickness and bed topography is now available for the first time in a centralized and standardized format, the British Antarctic Survey has announced.

  • Friday, July 21st 2023 - 09:06 UTC

    Import barriers impact Argentina's health system

    There is an imminent risk of a shortage of products, spare parts, and supplies for medical equipment used in surgeries, diagnoses, and treatments.

    High-tech surgeries such as transplants and other treatments have been put on hold in Argentina due to restrictions on imports that have resulted in a lack of medical inputs leading to the suspension of transplants and other treatments, Buenos Aires' Clarín reported.

  • Wednesday, July 19th 2023 - 09:50 UTC

    Alckmin highlights the importance of the semiconductor industry

    “Semiconductors are in everyday life, from video games to the war industry,” said VP Alckmin, who is also Minister of Development, Industry, Foreign Trade, and Services

    Brazilian Vice President Geraldo Alckmin stressed Tuesday that his country should bet on the development of the local semiconductor industry while speaking favorably about the reindustrialization process undertaken by the new government since Jan. 1.

  • Tuesday, July 18th 2023 - 09:47 UTC

    Falklands: Aberdeen children model ships to circumnavigate Antarctica

    The adventure has taken inspiration from the Ross scientific expedition of 1839-1843 involving HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.(Pic Independent)

    Model ships built by two young Aberdeenshire brothers have been launched on what is planned to be an epic journey around the South Pole. The mission to circumnavigate Antarctica, started by Harry and Ollie Ferguson, is thought to be a world first.

  • Thursday, July 13th 2023 - 10:15 UTC

    Brazilian scientists given back their decorations

    Lula restored the distinctions the scientist had been stripped of or renounced under Bolsonaro

    Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Wednesday presented researchers, professors, authorities, and representatives of entities that have made relevant contributions to national scientific and technological development with the National Order of Scientific Merit, Agencia Brasil reported. Joining Lula was Science, Technology, and Innovation Minister Luciana Santos.

  • Thursday, July 13th 2023 - 09:55 UTC

    WHO concerned bird flu virus might affect humans more easily

    The first lineage of the bird flu virus was identified in 1996 and has since caused several infectious outbreaks among birds

    The World Health Organization (WHO) Wednesday said it has “strong concerns” that the avian flu virus (H5N1) might mutate to infect humans, as outbreaks of the disease among birds are becoming more frequent. In the WHO's assessment, the virus might adapt to infect humans more easily.

  • Thursday, July 13th 2023 - 07:30 UTC

    European Parliament approves bill for the restoration of peat-lands

    After weeks of intense negotiations and despite the steadfast opposition of the European People's Party, the plan survived in the vote at the European Parliament

    The European Parliament has accepted a key biodiversity bill that will see the restoration of CO2-storing peat-lands but has been criticized by farmers another opposition groups due to fears they might lose land.<br />
    Testing the EU's global climate credentials, the lawmakers supported the European Commission plan in a razor-thin 324-312 vote with 12 abstentions.