News of global warming

What can cities do to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change?

20-10-2022 15:20 The challenges posed by climate change require immediate actions, which national governments are not carrying out to the extent they are needed.

Food Security

Wind blows in favour of Argentina’s GM crops

24-08-2022 15:18 Genetically modified crops, which have for years been heavily criticised by environmentalists, are benefitting from new technological developments and health and safety approvals overseas.

Bloomberg

World food prices post biggest decline since 2008 in July

05-08-2022 20:39 Global food prices fell the most since 2008 after concerns over supplies of grains and vegetable oils eased as Ukraine moved toward restarting exports.

EDITORIAL

Blind eyes of a storm

01-08-2022 14:40 At least two natural phenomena – sandstorms taking the form of a vertical twister spiral and the eye of the storm, that island of calm in the midst of a hurricane or typhoon – unfold atypically in a relatively small area and perhaps Argentina today has something of both.

Climate Change

Battered by climate change, Latin America must brace for worse: report

26-07-2022 14:22 Latin America is now experiencing the calamitous impacts of climate change: water shortages and food insecurity are making their impact on human life in the region. It will only get worse, says World Meteorological Organisation report.

Climate Change

Climate change's fingerprints on ever hotter heatwaves

18-07-2022 15:07 As Europe sizzles, experts predict more to come. Increased frequency of heatwaves here to stay, and an undeniable symptom of climate change.

Climate Crisis

UN: Even chance world will breach 1.5C warming within 5 years

10-05-2022 01:53 There is an even chance that global temperatures will temporarily breach the benchmark of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels in one of the next five years, the United Nations warned Tuesday.

Climate Crisis

Climate change creating new virus hotspots 'in our backyard'

30-04-2022 16:15 Climate change will drive animals towards cooler areas where their first encounters with other species will vastly increase the risk of new viruses infecting humans, raising the threat of another pandemic, researchers warned Thursday.

ENVIRONMENT

Environmentalists march to demand climate change action

23-04-2022 00:09 Coinciding with Earth Day, hundreds of people marched in Buenos Aires on Friday to demand more effort be made to tackle climate change.

Climate change

Melting glaciers, fast-disappearing gauge of climate change

24-02-2022 22:36 A crack widens in the San Rafael glacier in Chile's extreme south, and a ten-story iceberg crashes into the lake by the same name – a dramatic reminder of the impacts of global warming.

PROFILE: GABRIEL BORIC

New president at 35 thrusts Chile back into exceptionalism role

21-12-2021 15:44 While Gabriel Boric is sometimes described as part of a leftward shift in Latin America, he seems to be of a new, more globalist, breed.

ENVIRONMENT

Greenhouse gas levels reach record high amid COP26 worries

25-10-2021 15:00 Greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere reached record levels last year, the United Nations said on Monday in a stark warning ahead of the COP26 summit.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Biden urges 'highest' ambition at UN climate summit

17-09-2021 13:39 President Alberto Fernández joins US President Joe Biden for virtual meeting designed to galvanise efforts to confront the global climate crisis.

ENVIRONMENT

What does the new IPCC report mean for Latin America?

13-08-2021 22:49 Regional temperatures will continue to increase at rates greater than global average and extreme weather events will further accelerate, new climate change report warns

by Fermin Koop

ENVIRONMENT

UN report: Human role in global warming overwhelming and ‘unequivocal’

13-08-2021 22:46 Climate scientists reach ‘unequivocal’ consensus on human-made warming in landmark IPCC report.

ENVIRONMENT

Leaked UN draft climate report: Potential economic impact

23-06-2021 14:49 Climate-boosted extreme weather events – cyclones, droughts, flooding – have already sapped both short- and long-term economic growth, especially in developing countries, says new UN report.

ENVIRONMENT

Leaked UN draft climate report: Potential impact for humans

23-06-2021 14:33 Species extinction, ecosystem collapse, crippling health impacts from disease and heat, water shortages, cities devastated by rising seas – all will accelerate in the coming decades, no matter how rapidly the carbon emissions are cut, new report warns.

ENVIRONMENT

Crushing climate impacts to hit sooner than feared, says draft UN report

23-06-2021 14:24 Hunger, drought and disease will afflict tens of millions more people within decades, according to a draft UN assessment that lays bare the dire human health consequences of a warming planet.

ENVIRONMENT

Chile inaugurates Latin America's first thermosolar plant

11-06-2021 00:55 Chile inaugurated Cerro Dominador, Latin America's first-ever thermosolar energy plant, as a step in the country's quest for carbon-neutrality by 2050.

EDITORIAL

Thinking green or greenbacks

24-04-2021 00:19 Argentina’s vision cannot afford to remain stuck in the 1970s of OPEC and ideological strife in energy any more than political terms – this country offers enormous potential for renewable energy.

Beef Industry

Beef-addicted Uruguay aiming to make farming greener

25-03-2021 12:00 Last year, Uruguay launched a livestock and climate initiative with the help of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). We hear from Rosa Correa, one of 62 farm owners to implement the programme, about its aims and objectives.

ENVIRONMENT

Scientists reveal impact of climate change on Antarctic phytoplankton

18-02-2021 23:52 Argentine scientists reveal that rising temperatures and diminished salinity have altered phytoplankton in the Antarctic.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Teenagers are the most convinced there’s a climate emergency

29-01-2021 12:17 Teenagers in some of the world’s top polluting nations are the strongest believers that global warming is an emergency, according to the largest-ever climate opinion poll.

News of global warming

What can cities do to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate change?

Wind blows in favour of Argentina’s GM crops

World food prices post biggest decline since 2008 in July

Blind eyes of a storm

Battered by climate change, Latin America must brace for worse: report

Climate change's fingerprints on ever hotter heatwaves

UN: Even chance world will breach 1.5C warming within 5 years

Climate change creating new virus hotspots 'in our backyard'

Environmentalists march to demand climate change action

Melting glaciers, fast-disappearing gauge of climate change

New president at 35 thrusts Chile back into exceptionalism role

Greenhouse gas levels reach record high amid COP26 worries

Biden urges 'highest' ambition at UN climate summit

What does the new IPCC report mean for Latin America?

UN report: Human role in global warming overwhelming and ‘unequivocal’

Leaked UN draft climate report: Potential economic impact

Leaked UN draft climate report: Potential impact for humans

Crushing climate impacts to hit sooner than feared, says draft UN report

Chile inaugurates Latin America's first thermosolar plant

Thinking green or greenbacks

Beef-addicted Uruguay aiming to make farming greener

Scientists reveal impact of climate change on Antarctic phytoplankton

Teenagers are the most convinced there’s a climate emergency

Nicaragua stops travellers bringing cameras and video cameras into country

Leaked recording reveals Chilean minister's anger at Argentina's ambassador

'Argentina, 1985' actor dies one day after film receives Oscar nomination

Seven dead as Peru's new leader fails to quell protests

Pope: ‘Bad policies’ to blame for Argentina’s poverty and inflation

Llegan a Buenos Aires tormentas con ráfagas de viento y granizo

Encuestas favorecedoras para Massa, Larreta y Kicillof

ANMAT retiró del mercado un medicamento para prevenir infartos y ACVs

Wado de Pedro afuera de la reunión con Lula y los organismos de DDHH: hay malestar en el kirchnerismo

Juicio por Báez Sosa: el abogado Tomei pidió la absolución de los ocho "porque el hecho no está probado"