America Argentina The government extended its state of “environmental emergency” throughout its territory for another year, with the aim of continuing to adopt urgent measures to combat its ongoing wildfires
America Argentina In an effort to clean up surrounding ocean and use resources in a more efficient manner, new algorithmic technologies paired up with satellite images will be used in order to detect the location of plastic in the country's ocean
America Argentina Argentina has become the winner of the 2022 Qatar World Cup, 36 years after winning its last football world title
America Argentina Vice President Cristina Kirchner has been sentenced 6 years in prison for corruption and fraud attempts, being the first time in the country’s history a Vice President has been sentenced during their mandate
America Argentina As a response to increasing inflation, the government has passed a law to increase the minimum wage by 20% by March 2023
America Argentina As the year is heading to its end and inflation is set to hit 100%, the government has decided to freeze the prices of 1500 basic products in an attempt to stabilise the situation
America Argentina The government has passed a new regulation allowing visitors to get more pesos than the official exchange rate gives, hoping that it will discourage all-cash transactions that leave tourists more vulnerable to robbers
America Argentina A mass killing of the Qom and Moqoit communities in 1924 had no responsibility until this week, when a judge ordered historical reparations, including the event being added to the school curriculum and continuing efforts to find the victims' remains
America Argentina The country continues to suffer from its ongoing drought and has thus had a cut in corn harvests; being one of the world’s top corn exporters, the government has entered an emergency state to look for solutions in order to not slow down the corn market
America Argentina Local scientists have teamed up in a national project to find the cause of death of 30 whales stranded on the coast of Patagonia; the main speculation is that the deaths are due to poisoning by biotoxins produced by micro-algae
America Argentina YPF, Argentina’s state-owned energy company, has begun to supply renewable power to an international crypto-mining company, as an initiative to help ease the pollution that crypto-mining creates for the globe
America Argentina The country has pledged to help ease global food and energy shortages by boosting oil and gas production and incentivising its grain exports, estimating it to bring it up to a record-breaking US $42.3 billion by the end of the year
America Argentina National inflation has just reached 79% and government analysts are expecting to end the year with a 90% inflation rate, causing the Central Bank to sharply increase interest rates and making the effective annual interest rate nearly reach 100%