Marine life in Antarctica will be at risk from an invasion of sharks, crabs and other predators if global warming continues, scientists warn. Crabs are poised to return to the Antarctic shallows, threatening creatures such as giant sea spiders and floppy ribbon worms, says a UK-US team.
Brazil's government owned oil and gas corporation Petrobras has invited Mexico's oil monopoly Pemex to join it as a minority partner in a deepwater exploration project on the US side of the Gulf of Mexico revealed Samir Awad Petrobras executive manager for the Americas, Africa and Eurasia.
Argentine group Eurnekian and Brazilian investment fund GP Investimentos have tied up to launch an offer to buy the Latin American Esso downstream assets of Exxon Mobil Corp, said a spokesman for Eurnekian in Buenos Aires.
A United States House of Representatives panel approved Thursday a ten month extension for a trade programme providing reduced tariffs for exports from the four Andean nations of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.
The German Hamburg based publication Oil World has cut its estimate of the Brazilian 2007/08 soy crop to 59.3 million tons, down from the previous 59.8 million tons.
Magallanes Region economic activity plummeted 22.7% during the last quarter of 2007 which meant the region ended the twelve month period with a surprising negative performance of 11.5%, according to the local chapter of Chile's National Statistics Institute, INE.
A presidential summit of Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia leaders is scheduled for next February 23 in Buenos Aires to try and find a solution to the anticipated shortage of Bolivian natural gas supply next winter if as estimated Argentine and Brazilian demand increases over last year's volume.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened to stop sending oil to the United States if Washington continued to attack Venezuela as he said it had done through an Exxon Mobil lawsuit that has frozen the assets of the world's fifth oil exporter.
Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz who this week ends a Latinamerican tour in Costa Rica said he was desolate his concert in Caracas had been again canceled after Venezuelan government officials declared the 14-time Latin Grammy Award winner persona non-grata.
With the exception of Venezuela and Argentina that have government administered exchange rates, in the rest of the main Latinamerican money markets the depreciation of the US dollar continues with no end in the short term according to the latest data.