News of environment

Almost 300-year-old tree moved to make way for road widening

10-07-2025 00:11 Environmentalists fear ancient quebracho tree in Villa Allende, near Córdoba, will not survive transplant operation ordered by municipal government to allow road expansion.

Environment & rights

Inter-American court says states must protect people from climate change

04-07-2025 09:35 Decision means that around 20 countries across Latin America and the Caribbean – including Argentina – must undertake legal reforms to protect populations from climate change.

WATER AND ARGENTINA

Where water runs dry, hope begins

29-06-2025 06:26 With over seven million compatriots without access to drinking water, the situation is becoming especially dramatic in the face of the extreme events arising from climate change. Nevertheless, persons and communities – especially the most vulnerable – are working together with NGOs to confront an increasingly hostile reality with creativity and communal effort.

by Fernanda Sández

News of environment

Almost 300-year-old tree moved to make way for road widening

Inter-American court says states must protect people from climate change

Where water runs dry, hope begins

Brazil records 62% jump in area burned by forest fires, says monitor

Milei decree to amend Glaciers Law, extend areas for exploitation

Clouds and conspiracies: concerns over push to make rain

Report: Climate change partly behind deadly Bahía Blanca deluge

World's biggest iceberg runs aground, sparing wildlife haven island

Capybaras in Entre Ríos Province dyed Hulk green by algae

Argentina’s top environment official resigns post

After Patagonia, fires rip through northeast Argentina

Residents concerned as waters of Buenos Aires creek turn red

Milei says he’s considering taking Argentina out of Paris Agreement

One dead, hundreds evacuated as wildfires continue to burn in Patagonia

Hundreds of homes evacuated as Patagonia fires spread

Uruguay bucks 2024 global warming trend

Interpol arrests 26 on triple border for deforestation, trafficking of native trees

Green going out of fashion

Macron defends French farmers during talks with Milei

Macron presses Milei on climate action, multilateralism during talks

Is Milei on the verge of withdrawing Argentina from the Paris Agreement?

Argentina considering Paris climate pact exit, reports NYT

COP29 host tries to calm waters after diplomatic turmoil

Milei's COP29 team leaves as Trump tensions hang over summit

Buy now, pay later: Latin America pressured by Chinese online shops

Blocking and Bargaining: France and farmers fight EU-Mercosur trade deal

Big guns descend on Cali for final push in UN biodiversity talks

UN biodiversity summit in Colombia calls for action and finance

Bolivia natural gas shortage sends economy teetering

Global food prices risk spiking on worst-ever drought in Brazil

Brazilians choke as fire smoke blankets 80% of country

Wildfires continue to ravage Córdoba as Milei spreads fake news

Soda Stereo rocker Charly Alberti named UN environment ambassador

Lithium fever overshadows environmental concerns

Amnesty Int'l slams Argentina's ‘regressive’ turn on gender, environmental issues

Mendoza makes a play for copper in Argentina mining revival

In Darwin's footsteps: scientists recreate historic 1830s expedition

Record heat index of 62.3C scorches Rio de Janeiro

Indigenous Colombians fret as sacred mountain glaciers melt

Trump's green-bashing and Europe's right put climate goals at risk

Mosquito invasion hits Buenos Aires and its surroundings

Natural pesticides gain ground in 'agri-tox' capital Brazil

Studying the otherworldly sounds in Antarctic waters

Roads, farming threaten Ecuador 'lost city' complex

Polluted paradise: Chile town waits for clean-up as coal shuts off

Chile wildfire death toll rises to 131

Environmental groups denounce ‘corporate lobby’ seeking to overturn glacier law

Death toll reaches 110 as wildfires scorch central Chile

In Antarctica, scientists study extent of microplastics

Scioli joins Milei government as Tourism, Environment & Sports secretary

Huge quake off Russia sparks Pacific tsunamis

US judge orders Argentina’s Economy Minister to turn over YPF texts

Milei receives Trump’s Homeland Security czar for a Visa Waiver Program agreement

Lower export duties: the government seeks farm dollars to tame the rising greenback

The secrets of Leonardo Scatturice, Milei’s lobbyist in Washington

Mar del Plata: encontraron una bolsa con inscripciones chinas en el mar a más de 1.200 metros de profundidad

Cúneo Libarona le ofreció sus contactos judiciales, políticos y mediáticos a un exespía americano y la oposición exige su renuncia

Alerta por tsunami: las olas ya llegaron a Perú y en Chile evacuaron al menos a 1 millón y medio de personas

Alerta de tsunami en Chile, Ecuador y Perú por sismo de 8,8 en Rusia: ¿cuánto demora en llegar una ola tras un terremoto?

Japón recibió las primeras olas del tsunami tras el terremoto en Rusia: hay dos millones de personas evacuadas