ARGENTINA ABLAZE More than 600,000 hectares destroyed by fires in Corrientes province 18-02-2022 18:34 Politicians play the blame game as provincial governor calls for urgent assistance; More than 600,000 hectares of land consumed by flames so far.
ARGENTINA ABLAZE Unprecedented drought fuels devastating fires in Corrientes Province 16-02-2022 22:26 Fires fuelled by an unprecedented drought are ravaging hundreds of thousands of hectares of land in the northeastern province of Corrientes, causing serious economic and environmental damage.
ARGENTINA ABLAZE Firefighters continue to battle forest blazes in Argentina 14-01-2022 19:25 With temperatures climbing upwards, firefighters were deployed ahead of the weekend to forest fires in nine of Argentina's 23 provinces, including one blaze that has been active for more than a month.
ARGENTINA ABLAZE Two killed in helicopter crash as firefighters battle flames in seven provinces 29-12-2021 23:02 Two killed in tragic helicopter crash near town of Aluminé, Neuquén Province; Authorities declare nationwide fire emergency, with outbreaks now reported in seven provinces and more than 300,000 hectares destroyed.
ENVIRONMENT Firefighters battle against forest fires in Río Negro, Chubut and Neuquén 26-12-2021 08:37 Some 250 firefighters and national park employees battled blazes in Patagonia over Christmas, with thousands of hectares of forest destroyed. Fires are raging in high-altitude, little populated forest areas of the southern provinces of Río Negro, Chubut and Neuquén.
ENVIRONMENT Forest fires rip through Córdoba Province 06-10-2021 14:51 Forest fires continued to rage in the northern part of Córdoba Province on Tuesday, leaving destruction in their wake but thankfully no deaths or injuries.
LGBT+ RIGHTS Argentina’s Senate approves transgender job quota law 28-06-2021 16:11 Senate backs sweeping legislation that reserves one percent of all public sector jobs for members of the trans community.
Coronavirus pandemic Fernández leads tribute to Covid victims, as death toll nears 100,000 27-06-2021 16:34 Peronist leader leads "ceremony of recollection and reflection" at CCK cultural centre, as Argentina death toll creeps towards 100,000.
UNITED KINGDOM Tributes paid after death of British lockdown hero 'Captain Tom' 02-02-2021 17:32 Tributes flooded in from across Britain and beyond on Tuesday following the death of Captain Sir Tom Moore, the 100-year-old military veteran who won hearts with his fundraising during the pandemic.
THE WEEK What we learned this week: January 2 to 9 09-01-2021 08:24 Our pick of the headlines from the last seven days in Argentina.
POLITICS AND THE PANDEMIC The vaccine conversation 19-12-2020 08:42 These glitches and delays add up to negative headlines. Opposition leaders accused the government of deliberately keeping the public in the dark about the pending approval of the vaccine for those over 60. by Martín Gambarotta
Trans rights Argentina's Army must comply with 1% quota for trans individuals 24-11-2020 09:10 Argentina's Army has been included on a list of official bodies that must comply with new legislation guaranteeing the incorporation of transvestites, transsexuals and transgender people into the workplace, according to press reports.
ENVIRONMENT More than 400,000 hectares burned in fires since turn of year 29-09-2020 16:35 At the start of this week, 434,975 hectares nationwide had already been affected by forest and bush fires, with 10 provinces in particular bearing the brunt, according to official data.
TRANS RIGHTS Argentina establishes 1% quota for trans workers in civil service jobs 04-09-2020 16:40 One percent of state jobs must be reserved for transgender people, according to a decree published yesterday in the Official Gazette.
Bloomberg Uber sees grocery delivery sparking its next wave of growth 15-06-2020 15:05 Delivering groceries is Uber Technologies Inc’s next frontier – at least in Latin America.
EDITORIAL When the solution is the problem 30-05-2020 09:44 No country in the world can envisage the post-pandemic world with any clarity but, at the risk of going down the long-trodden road of Argentine exceptionalism, perhaps no nation carries uncertainty to the same extremes as here.