Tag: Patagonia

• Tuesday, July 5th 2011 - 06:14 UTC

  Argentina announces aid for areas suffering from the volcanic ash cloud

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced a package of measures to mitigate the effects of ash spewing from Chile's Puyehue volcano that has upended air travel, tourism and farming in Patagonia.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 17:49 UTC

  Argentine Patagonia faces major agriculture and tourism disaster

  

  While air passengers in the Southern hemisphere continue exposed to the vicissitudes of the volcanic ash cloud Patagonian farmers have a much serious problem: feeding 1.5 million sheep and livestock when fields are covered with sludge of volcanic debris and snow.

• Monday, June 13th 2011 - 16:20 UTC

  Agriculture emergency is Argentine Patagonia because of the volcanic ash

  

  The Argentine government is expected to announce Monday an agriculture emergency in several Patagonian areas as a consequence of the Chilean Andes volcanic eruption that has covered most of the territory with a blanket of ash leaving thousands of sheep with no water or pasture.

• Sunday, June 5th 2011 - 12:20 UTC

  South Chile volcano eruption prompts evacuation; covers Argentine province with ash

  

  Southern Chile's Puyehue volcano erupted on Saturday for the first time in half a century prompting evacuation orders for 3,500 people and turning into dark the Argentine Patagonian resort of San Carlos de Bariloche, 100 kilometres to the east as it was covered with ash.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 09:50 UTC

  Chilean protestors clash with police as regulators approve five-dam project in Patagonia

  

  Chile approved on Monday the construction of a hydroelectric project that would flood Patagonian valleys and become the country’s biggest power generator, sparking violent protests.

• Saturday, April 16th 2011 - 02:00 UTC

  Canadian company will develop gold mine project in Argentine Patagonia

  

  Argentina's Planning Ministry said Thursday that Canadian mining company Goldcorp Inc. (GG) will invest 850 million US dollars to put into production its Cerro Negro gold project in Santa Cruz Province.

• Friday, December 17th 2010 - 18:41 UTC

  New guide documents marine life amazing diversity in Chilean Patagonia

  

  After more than 10 years of research, Chile’s San Ignacio de Huinay Foundation has published a guide chronicling the amazing diversity of marine life in Chile’s Patagonia, with photographs of 473 marine life species

• Sunday, December 12th 2010 - 23:41 UTC

  Picture evidence of four kilometres retraction (in 80 years) of glacier in Patagonia

  

  The Argentine Patagonian glacier Ameghino has contracted almost four kilometres over the last eighty years because of global warming according to evidence from Greenpeace.

• Monday, September 6th 2010 - 04:49 UTC

  Canadian companies fighting to control rich gold and silver project in Patagonia

  

  Rival Canadian gold mining companies Goldcorp and Eldorado have locked horns in a fight to buy up Andean Resources Ltd.

• Tuesday, August 24th 2010 - 03:32 UTC

  Chilean Patagonia controversial dam project faces serious PR challenge

  

  Daniel Fernandez, the new top executive for the controversial 3.2 billion US dollars HidroAysen dam project proposed for Chilean Patagonia, confirmed Sunday that the effort to convince Chileans about the project’s importance has not gone well and that the company is consulting five PR firms to help improve their marketing effort.