Bulldozing all opposition, the government of the northwestern Argentine province of Salta broke up a 20,000-hectare nature reserve into plots and auctioned them off to farming and ranching companies.

If a proposed law presented to Argentina's congress is approved, the country's public service companies will have to conduct research on their own instead of relying on imported technical knowledge.

• A study in Buenos Aires, Argentina, showed that over 50 per cent of the children living near a petrochemical centre have more than 10 microgrammes of lead per decilitre of blood in their

• Argentina's education ministry has kicked off a unique project called "When You Read, You Always Win'. Organised with the support of the Argentine Football Association, local football clubs,

If you had a magic wand and you could eliminate corruption from one of the following institutions, what would your first choice be? ” The overwhelming answer seems to be political parties. So says the corruption watchdog Transparency International, after

Forewarned is forearmed. With this motto, Argentina has embarked

Clive James, president of the Inter

The Argentine Movement for Organic Production (mapo), a group of 300 organic farmers, has recently filed a complaint against the Agriculture Department demanding that it should stop approving the

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

A failure of our scientific preparedness. Where are our scientists?

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