Tag: Patagonia

• Sunday, December 4th 2016 - 10:45 UTC

  Hudson volcano yellow alert in Patagonia: memories of the 1991 eruption

  

  The Patagonia territories of Chile and Argentina, Aysen region and Santa Cruz province are under yellow alert since Saturday evening given the growing seismic activity of the Hudson volcano. The alert is specifically referred to the towns of Los Antiguos and Perino Moreno, Argentina and the Chilean communes of Aysen, General Carrera, Rio Ibañez and Chile Chico in the Aysen Region.

• Monday, January 25th 2016 - 08:41 UTC

  Tompkins widow plans to hand over thousands of acres to create national parks in Patagonia

  

  The widow of American conservationist Doug Tompkins, who died last month while kayaking in South America's Patagonia region, says she'll build on her husband's legacy of protecting threatened ecosystems in Argentina and Chile.

• Saturday, December 27th 2014 - 08:22 UTC

  Top Gear episode filmed in Argentina to be aired Saturday

  

  When filming in Patagonia, the BBC crew and host Jeremy Clarkson were forced to leave the country after locals saw their cars' license plates, which were deemed 'provocative'.

• Thursday, August 7th 2014 - 06:01 UTC

  “Malvinas dialogue” demands Argentine Patagonia governor in Wales

  

  Underlining the close links between Wales and Argentine Patagonia, where many Welsh immigrants settled for the first time 150 years ago, Chubut governor Martin Buzzi called on the British government “to open a dialogue on the Malvinas Islands”.

• Tuesday, October 22nd 2013 - 05:31 UTC

  Ozone layer hole reaches Argentine and Chilean Patagonia

  

  The hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica stretched for the third time this year to reach cities in the south of Argentina and Chile according to the Izaña Atmospheric research centre in Tenerife, Canary Islands.

• Friday, October 11th 2013 - 08:00 UTC

  Argentine billionaire ready to invest 500m dollars in Patagonia shale development

  

  Argentine billionaire Eduardo Eurnekian announced that his company Corporation America continues to work with government controlled oil company YPF “to develop projects” which could involve a 500 million dollars investment in the country’s rich shale deposits.

• Thursday, August 22nd 2013 - 23:43 UTC

  China will build and finance two dams in Patagonia equivalent to 10% of Argentine power demand

  

  Argentina's government this week awarded a 4 billion dollars contract for the construction of two hydroelectric dams to a consortium led by China Gezhouba (Group) Co. and which includes Argentine firms Electroingenieria SA and Hidrocuyo SA.

• Wednesday, October 17th 2012 - 20:57 UTC

  Mapuche protest in Bariloche demand removal of statue of “the man guilty of the greatest genocide”

  

  Members from the indigenous Mapuche community in Patagonia protested angrily at the south Argentina resort of Bariloche demanding that a statue in honour of President General Julio A Roca be removed since “he was responsible for the greatest genocide in our history”.

• Saturday, November 19th 2011 - 06:09 UTC

  Argentina sponsors a free movement of peoples’ area in Magallanes and Tierra del Fuego

  

  Argentina announced its full support to make the tip of the South American continent ‘a free movement of peoples’ area’ that would include Chile’s Magallanes region in the extreme south of the country and Tierra del Fuego, shared by the neighbouring countries.

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 13:01 UTC

  Lager beer yeast arrived in Europe from Patagonia 500 years ago

  

  The mystery behind the birth of lager beer has been solved. Scientists have successfully traced the origin of the popular alcoholic beverage to a type of yeast, believed to have travelled 11,000 kilometres from Patagonia, (Argentina) to Bavaria 500 years ago.