News of climate

BLOOMBERG OPINION

The massive cost of not adapting to climate change

13-09-2019 12:11 The world must invest $1.8 trillion by 2030 to prepare for the effects of global warming. A new report said the payoff could be four times that.

ENVIRONMENT

Chilean Patagonia: an open-air lab to study climate change

04-09-2019 12:50 In one of the most inhospitable places on Earth, scientists are studying whales, dolphins and algae in order to help predict how climate change will affect the world's oceans.

ENVIRONMENT

Australian government agency lowers Great Barrier Reef outlook to 'very poor'

30-08-2019 12:26 The government agency that manages Australia's Great Barrier Reef has downgraded its outlook for the corals' condition from "poor" to "very poor" due to warming oceans.

AMAZON AFLAME

Demonstrators rally outside Brazilian Embassy as Amazon smoke reaches Argentina

23-08-2019 18:23 Macri offers support to Bolsonaro as environmental catastrophe continues.

AMAZON IN FLAMES

Ireland may withold EU-Mercosur deal support over Amazon fires

23-08-2019 14:03 "There is no way that Ireland will vote for the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement if Brazil does not honour its environmental commitments," says Prime Minister Leo Varadkar

OPINION

Leonid Bershidsky: The EU can push Bolsonaro to save the Amazon

23-08-2019 13:59 It’s appropriate for Macron, Merkel and other European leaders to reconsider the Mercosur trade agreement in response to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s behaviour.

DEAL IN DOUBT

Macron: France won't back EU-Mercosur deal over Bolsonaro's climate 'lies'

23-08-2019 10:19 Outraged over the Amazon fires, French president brands Brazilian counterpart a liar and threatens to block EU-Mercosur trade deal "under these conditions."

Climate Crisis

Earth's future is being written in fast-melting Greenland

22-08-2019 15:01 Summer this year is hitting Greenland hard with record-shattering heat and extreme melt. By the end of the summer, about 440 billion tons of ice — maybe more — will have melted or calved off Greenland's giant ice sheet, scientists estimate.

BLOOMBERG – FEATURE

Chile's glaciers may have a bigger problem than climate change

15-08-2019 10:34 Chile has one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water outside the north and south poles, but the abundant glaciers that are the source of that precious commodity are melting fast. That’s not just an ecological disaster in the making – it’s rapidly becoming an economic and political dilemma for the government of Latin America’s richest nation.

Climate Crisis

UN climate report: Change land use to avoid a hungry future

08-08-2019 13:22 Report states human land use will trigger cycle of scarcer of more expensive food.

ENVIRONMENT

Environmental activism on rise in Argentina amid climate emergency

03-08-2019 11:30 Citizens across the globe are now taking action, asking governments and companies to step up to the plate on climate change. Argentina is no exception.

by Fermin Koop

ENVIRONMENT

Chile's Navy confirms diesel oil spill of 40,000 litres in Patagonia

29-07-2019 14:19 Navy says it has deployed ships to Guarello island to control damage from the spill, and that an investigation had been launched.

FLOODING

Over 3,000 people evacuated in Uruguay and Entre Río province

18-06-2019 14:03 Widespread flooding in the region forces hundreds of families from their homes just days after historic blackout.

SCIENCE

Prominent Argentine biologist wins prestigious prize for scientific research

05-06-2019 17:03 Sandra Myrna Díaz, who graduated in Biology at the National University of Cordoba and specialises in botany, recognised for pioneering work on how biodiversity can counter climate change.

CLIMATE CHANGE

Climate activists call for action in Latin America

27-05-2019 15:43 Climate change activists in Latin America rallied for action on global warming this weekend, heeding a call by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg to hold demonstrations across the world.

TORRENTIAL FLOODING

Devastating floods to shave up to US$2 billion off GDP

17-01-2019 18:30 Heavy rains could keep coming for weeks, with thousands having already been displaced by devastating flooding.

CLIMATE CHANGE

The knife-edge path our world is on could lead to disaster in just 11 years

20-10-2018 08:43 The story is not the same this time around. Let’s just say: this is serious.

by Andrew Graham-Yooll

CLIMATE CHANGE

Stark new UN report on global warming sounds life-ordeath warning

13-10-2018 09:19 IPCC report warns that time is running out to avert climate-induced disaster, with its authors calling for a complete transformation not just of the global economy, but of society too.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

‘This is the last chance to get things right’ on global warming

13-10-2018 09:08 IPCC member and CONICET researcher Carolina Vera on why Argentina and the world must take action on global warming – and fast.

by Fermin Koop

ENVIRONMENT

A surfer’s fight against plastic waste starts to pay off

09-06-2018 10:27 Nearly a decade ago, Gastón Caminata decided to do something about the trash on the beaches near his home in Argentina. But while the difference can be seen today, he says much more must be done.

by Charles Newbery

MEDELLÍN BIODIVERSITY MEETING

Report: Humanity imperiled by global abuse of natural resources

23-03-2018 14:17 Human activity has driven animals and plants into decline in every region of the world, putting our own well-being at risk by over-harvesting and polluting, a comprehensive species survey warned Friday.

United States politics

Interview: Ex-Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm on the state of US politics today

12-03-2018 19:21 The state's first female chief executive sat down with the Buenos Aires Times to discuss media bias, immigration, gun control, the 2016 election and more.

by Jacob Meschke

G20 Presidency

Mainstream policy and the fractured being

03-02-2018 11:42 Cambiemos’ top brass is ideologically convinced of the perils of climate change and the unfairness of the global tax system. Yet, Argentina’s biggest bet in its search for an economically viable energy system is Vaca Muerta, the world’s second largest field of shale gas.

by Agustino Fontevecchia