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Challenger Energy completes first phase of work offshore Uruguay
The AIM-traded company reported aggregate best estimate resources of around 380 million barrels from the two primary prospects, Benteveo and Amalia, with shallow water and reservoir depths expected to support relatively low development costs and...

Climate Change is Deepening Child Poverty in Latin America and Caribbean
Climate Action, Climate Change, Development & Aid, Education, Environment, Food and Agriculture, Headlines, Health, Inequality, Latin America & the Caribbean, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations A family prepares a banner to...

Highlights and goals of Uruguay 3-0 Peru in CONMEBOL Qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup
End of transmission That's all from us! It has been a pleasure bringing you coverage of the exciting match between Uruguay vs Peru, part of the CONMEBOL Qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup We appreciate your company and passion for soccer....

Uruguay’s Project Neptuno Is Dead, but Questions Remain
On July 18, as Argentina announced a move to privatize a major public water company, neighboring Uruguay announced the cancellation of Project Neptuno, a plan that would have violated the nation’s constitution by letting private corporations...

The vital role of soil diversity for sustainable agriculture
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The smell of wet earth is unmistakable and evokes something in all human beings. But why do we like that smell so much? Probably because it’s more than...

Chevron Takes Over Exploration Block offshore Uruguay
Challenger Energy Group PLC said it had completed the transfer of operatorship in Uruguay's AREA OFF-1 to Chevron Corp. The Caribbean and Atlantic-margin focused oil and gas company farmed out 60 percent of the block, one of two it holds offshore...

Azerbaijan’s First Deputy Minister of Economy holds series of meetings in Uruguay
Baku, September 8, AZERTAC As part of his visit to Uruguay, Azerbaijan’s First Deputy Minister of Economy Elnur Aliyev held a series of meetings. During his meeting with Uruguay’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Valeria Csukasi,...

Azerbaijan, Uruguay Looking Into New Ways To Team Up On Economic Cooperation
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 8. Azerbaijan and Uruguay have discussed opportunities for cooperation in renewable energy, green technologies, infrastructure, transportation, industry, and food security, Trend reports via...

Azerbaijan, Uruguay explore cooperation in green energy, infrastructure, and investment
Azerbaijan and Uruguay are exploring opportunities for cooperation across several strategic sectors, including renewable energy, green technologies, infrastructure, transport, industry, and food security, Azernews reports, citing the Ministry of...

Conference charts way forward on potential for AI in weather prediction
The three-day event from 9-11 September in Abu Dhabi brought together more than 50 international experts from WMO, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, academia and the private...

Study: Politicians Undestimate Public Support for Climate Action & Must Be ‘Braver’
4 Mins Read Policymakers vastly underestimate people’s willingness to contribute to the fight against climate change, which can explain their inaction on the crisis, University of Oxford scientists say. Last year, a global poll of 130,000...

The Cuban U-20 National Soccer Team Arrived in Uruguay to Play Friendly Matches
3 Havana, September 7 (RHC) – The Cuban national soccer team that will participate in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Chile 2025 arrived in Uruguay early Sunday morning. They will play friendly matches here in preparation and will also take advantage...

Uruguay launches rail masterplan
Technical assistance contract tendered for initial assessment and demand study. URUGUAY’s National Development Corporation (CND) has invited bids for a technical assistance contract to design a rail masterplan, overseen by Ministry of Transport...

Cables no thicker than a hose, why our perilous internet could be brought down in a snip
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...

Rockefeller Foundation’s New U.S. $50 Million Initiative Finds Widespread Support for International Cooperation in Landmark 34-Country Survey
36,405 adults surveyed in U.S., China, Germany, Japan, India, UK, France, Italy, Canada, Brazil, and 23 countries in Africa, Asia & Oceania, Europe, MENA, Latin America Alongside the survey, The Rockefeller Foundation launched a new US$50 million...

Highlights and goals of Uruguay 3-0 Peru in CONMEBOL Qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup
End of transmission That's all from us! It has been a pleasure bringing you coverage of the exciting match between Uruguay vs Peru, part of the CONMEBOL Qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup We appreciate your company and passion for soccer....

Fresh Del Monte’s Uruguayan sweet oranges make Europe debut
Lee esta noticia en español. Produce giant Fresh Del Monte began distributing its first shipments of oranges from Uruguay to major European markets this week. The company grows and packs the fruit in the Salto region, which, according to the...

The largest prison break in history: 1971 Montevideo
Get fearless, uncompromising truth in your inbox. Subscribe to The Real News. It’s past midnight on September 6, 1971. Across the prison, dozens of men slip out of their beds. Bricks slide out from the walls of their cells. Bodies slip out...

EU-Mercosur trade deal angers farmers, environmentalists
Climate activists and farmers often disagree, but the EU's free trade deal with Mercosur has got them both on edge. The European Commission took the first step on Wednesday to ratify a long-awaited free-trade package with Latin American countries:...

Wilderness continues its hold on this adventurous duo
MONTEVIDEO, Minn. — Susan Otterholt Kempe paddled into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness for the first time having never spent a night camping in the woods. “I was a farm kid. In the summertime, my folks worked. They didn’t go on...