Health & Science

• Monday, August 25th 2025 - 21:14 UTC

  Chile halts poultry imports from Argentina due to avian flu

  

  Chile's Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) has ordered the temporary suspension of chicken imports from Argentina due to an outbreak of “highly pathogenic avian influenza” (HPAI) at a commercial poultry facility in the neighboring country.

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

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

  

  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.

• Friday, August 22nd 2025 - 20:50 UTC

  Brazil: Over 350 dead Magellanic penguins found

  

  Over 350 Magellanic penguins were found lifeless along the coast of Ilha Comprida in São Paulo, Brazil, the Cananéia Research Institute (IPeC) announced this week. The birds, discovered over four consecutive days, were in an advanced state of decomposition, which made it impossible to determine the exact cause of death.

• Thursday, August 21st 2025 - 20:02 UTC

  New Covid-19 variants detected in Uruguay

  

  Uruguay's Ministry of Public Health (MSP) has confirmed the circulation in the country of the new Covid-19 “Frankenstein” (XFG) and “Nimbus” (NB.1.8.1) variants. The discovery was made through the country's genomic surveillance system after analyzing samples from sentinel centers.

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

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

  

  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 - 06:45 UTC

  Liberal Uruguay and the right to die (legal assisted dying), The Economist

  

  Pablo Canepa was a normal, healthy 35-year-old Uruguayan. Handsome and extroverted, he was a talented graphic designer who loved to host barbecues with his girlfriend and was fanatical about Nacional, a local football team. Taking a shower in March 2022, he suddenly felt dizzy. He thought little of it.

• Friday, August 15th 2025 - 10:53 UTC

  Fentanyl scandal splashing Milei's rivals leading up to midterms

  

  The death toll from contaminated medical fentanyl in Argentina has been updated to 100 people, with the Libertarian government publicly blaming HLB Pharma Group S.A., and its owner, Ariel Garcia Furfaro, for it.

• Thursday, August 14th 2025 - 21:56 UTC

  Violence against children in Brazilian Amazon worse than elsewhere in the country

  

  A report released Thursday by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety (FBSP) showed that Children and adolescents in the Legal Amazon were exposed to different types of violence with relevant particularities compared to the rest of the South American country.

• Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 10:02 UTC

  President Orsi endorses Uruguay's new euthanasia bill

  

  Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi announced he was in favor of the revised “dignified death” bill about to be voted on in the House of Representatives. The proposed law would decriminalize euthanasia for mentally competent adults with incurable diseases or unbearable suffering. The new project is a modified version of a previous one approved by the House in 2022 but stalled in the Senate.

• Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 06:40 UTC

  Antarctic researcher remains, working for Falklands’ Dependency, 66 years ago, found in receding glacier

  

  The remains of an Antarctic researcher have been discovered by a Polish team among rocks exposed by a receding glacier in Antarctica. They are identified by DNA as those of Dennis ‘Tink’ Bell, a 25 year-old meteorologist who was working for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), the predecessor of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). He died in a crevasse on a glacier at Admiralty Bay on King George Island, situated off the Antarctic Peninsula on 26 July 1959. His body was never recovered.