News of andes

Specialist architects putting Argentine wine on another map

14-04-2021 11:02 Mendoza is synonymous with Malbec wine, but what's not so well known is that the province has become a reference for wine cellar architecture.

INTERVIEW – PERIODISMO PURO

Rafael Bielsa: ‘Alberto Fernández is very far from being a puppet’

10-04-2021 07:42 Rafael Bielsa, Argentina’s current Ambassador to Chile, on the pandemic, the president, Peronism and bilateral relations.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Science & Nature

Fly without flapping? Andean condors surf air 99 percent of time

14-07-2020 14:35 Condors found in Patagonia spend only 1% of their time aloft flapping their wings, a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds.

Fight against virus

Famous Andes crash survivor building virus ventilators

27-04-2020 07:00 Uruguayan Doctor Roberto Canessa, one of the 16 survivors of an air plane crash in the Chilean Andes in 1972, has developed a rudimentary ventilator to help patients, partnering up with robotic engineers and doctors.

BLOOMBERG

Argentina eager to boost lithium production, says official

24-01-2020 13:41 The government is determined to boost lithium and copper production, says mining secretary in Washington

LOW-COST AIRLINES

Argentina’s new era of low-cost air travel at risk, say analysts

16-11-2019 10:54 Alberto Fernández’s election victory casts shadow over shift toward greater competition in the skies.

Climate Change

Scientists brave crisis to continue research at Venezuela's last glacier

24-09-2019 18:29 The rapid pace of glacial retreat over the past century and a half, accelerated by human activities and burning of fossil fuels, creates new urgency for scientists to understand how freshly exposed rock forms new soil and eventually new ecosystems.