AMÉRIQUES

America’s debt levels would be dangerous territory for any normal country

Bolivia is set to become a full member of the South American Mercosur trade bloc following a decision on Tuesday by the Brazilian Senate to approve the country's admission.

Billions in foreign investment boosts a growing electric vehicle market in Brazil. Can it spark a wider transition?

Latin America is the fastest-growing producer of the lucrative crop, but at what price for the environment and its defenders?

Malgré ses procès en cours, Donald Trump pourrait bien à nouveau être élu président en novembre 2024. Progressivement, son programme s’il venait à revenir à la Maison-Blanche se précise : utilisation du département de la Justice pour ses propres vengeances, expulsions de masse, guerres commerciales…

Le Brésil s'inquiète de l'élection de Javier Milei à la tête de l'Argentine et craint que l'ultra-libéral ne fasse échouer un accord entre l'UE et le Mercosur, bien que des sources au sein du gouvernement de Lula soient convaincues que le pragmatisme prévaudra entre les deux principaux partenaires commerciaux.

President-elect’s idea is a gamble that is likely to crash an economy paying the price for mistakes of his predecessor

In the first two weeks of November, fires fueled by unusually dry and hot weather destroyed nearly 770,000 hectares (1.9 million acres) of the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetlands

A proposed water treatment plant on the brackish Río de la Plata faces questions over its environmental impacts and feasibility

Argentina's farmers may be more willing to spend money on seeds and other agricultural products, hoping that new President-elect Javier Milei's policies will improve earnings from their future harvests, the chief executive of Argentine biotech firm Bioceres said on Tuesday.

El Niño, a climate pattern that brings warmer sea temperatures to the Pacific Ocean and triggers extreme weather events throughout the world, has arrived and is likely to persist until 2024.

Lors du premier tour du 22 octobre, les deux hommes étaient arrivés en tête du scrutin. Sergio Massa (actuel ministre de l’Économie et candidat de la coalition péroniste Union por la Patria), qui propose la mise en place d’un gouvernement « d’unité nationale » en cas de victoire, a devancé, ave

The Russian government is currently financing an on-going, well-funded disinformation campaign across Latin America. The Kremlin’s campaign plans to leverage developed media contacts in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, among other countries in Latin America, in order to carry out an information manipulation campaign.

Infrastructure funding is reviving dormant plans for pipelines and reservoirs to replace vanishing groundwater in the U.S. West.

Géoconfluences, une publication à caractère scientifique pour le partage du savoir et pour la formation en géographie. Elle est proposée par la Direction générale de l'enseignement scolaire (Dgesco) et par l'École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon). France. http://geoconfluences.ens-lyon.fr

Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the climate conference is a ‘good moment’ to unveil details of Canada’s emissions cap

While the Argentine-Chinese bilateral relationship under Javier Milei has already been widely covered, little has been said about the relationship with other countries

Canada is long-overdue for scientifically-driven, robust and transparent pesticide regulation. A newly created Science Advisory Committee aims to address this.

Des scientifiques brésiliens ont identifié des zones au climat aride dans le nord de l’État de Bahia, et une progression de l’aridité dans plusieurs régions d

The waters of South America’s largest freshwater lake have severely receded leaving the Indigenous people around its shores struggling to maintain their livelihoods

Donald Trump domine largement tous les autres candidats à l'investiture du Parti républicain en amont de l’élection présidentielle de novembre 2024. Cependant, plusieurs signaux faibles indiquent que Nikki Haley pourrait s’imposer comme la principale rivale de Donald Trump en amont du Super Tuesday qui aura lieu le 5 mars.

Le réchauffement climatique a provoqué la fonte de 56% de la surface des glaciers péruviens au cours des 53 dernières années

Ex US President Donald Trump congratulates Javier Milei, saying he will "Make Argentina Great Again".

Amlo’s pension program helped boost his approval rating, but critics point to his various shortcomings as his term nears its end

Workforce participation remains below pre-pandemic levels. We are missing 1.7 million Americans from the workforce compared to February of 2020.