The TecPlata terminal in the Argentine port of La Plata has been granted a carbon-neutral certification, making it the first in the country to achieve such a feat, thus confirming the company's global sustainability strategy. The new status means offsetting the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions generated by an activity so that the balance is zero.
Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Conicet) has identified in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) and in the country's northwestern provinces genetic mutations in the Aedes aegypti mosquito (carrier of the dengue virus) that turned them resistant to normally lethal doses of pesticides, the national news agency Telam reported amid a dengue outbreak, which has resulted in 129,150 cases and 65 deaths over the past 12 months.
Groups of survivors, students, and other human rights organizations Friday commemorated the 46th anniversary of the massacre known as The Night of the Pencils (La Noche de Los Lápices) in the Argentine city of La Plata where the atrocities committed by the military dictatorship were perpetrated.
A group of laborers doing trenching work in the city of La Plata Thursday found a missile that had vanished from Argentine Army barracks years ago when current Federal Intelligence Agency Chief Agustín Rossi was Defense Minister, it was reported.
The first shipment from the port of Santa Fe bound for the Port of La Plata has departed, thus marking the commencement of a logistics circuit with the TecPlata container terminal that brings on a plethora of business opportunities, it was reported.
Argentine president Alberto Fernandez and the political and power struggle that emerged from Sunday, September 12 primary elections cataclysm received scathing criticisms from the Pope and the Catholic Church.