Mekorot has recently signed a series of agreements in Argentina, with the aim of building comprehensive master plans for the water sector which has suffered from climate change. Mekorot, Israel’s national water company, is expanding its international consulting and planning activities to...
Construction at Caucharí-Olaroz lithium project, one of the two producing mines in Argentina. (Image courtesy of Lithium Americas Corp.) British Columbia is never going to be a major lithium producer – it just doesn’t have the geology. But a number of Vancouver companies are...
Last month, the leaders of Argentina and Brazil announced plans to discuss the introduction of a new common currency for trading in South America—a move that could advance economic integration in the region and the potential creation of the world’s second-largest currency bloc. In a...
Climate change isn’t causing the multi year drought that is devastating parts of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil and Bolivia, but warming is worsening some of the dry spell’s impacts, a new study says. The natural three-year climate condition La Nina – a cooling of the...
Bomb shelters across Russia are undergoing systematic inspections and repairs following a Kremlin order to upgrade the country’s crumbling Soviet-era infrastructure, according to current and former officials who spoke to The Moscow Times. Many of Russia’s thousands of bunkers...
