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New research confirms residential PV tends to increase household power consumption
pv-magazine
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June 27, 2025
New Swiss research shows PV-powered homes can increase power consumption by up to 11% compared to non-solar households. This rise is linked to electric vehicle adoption or other high-usage appliances, which the study’s author notes is not...
Advancing High-Quality Seed Potato Multiplication for Family Farms in Uruguay
Seed World
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June 27, 2025
The potato holds a central role in Uruguay’s agricultural landscape, contributing significantly to the country’s food security and economy — but access to high quality seeds remains an issue. In recent years the National Institute of Agricultural...
Uruguay’s President Attends Groundbreaking Ceremony for TUMO Center Near Montevideo Airport
MassisPost - California
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June 18, 2025
MONTEVIDEO — Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi, along with several senior government officials, participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for a TUMO Center for Creative Technologies near Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, the Armenian...
3D cattle monitoring tech boosts animal welfare and milk production at land-based college
FE News
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June 26, 2025
REVOLUTIONARY new 3D video monitoring technology is delivering economic and environmental benefits and supporting animal welfare at a leading land-based college. Coleg Cambria Llysfasi has installed HerdVision at its working farm and is already...
New camera tech transforms cow care at land-based college
Farming UK
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June 26, 2025
State-of-the-art 3D camera tech is transforming dairy farming at land-based college Coleg Cambria, boosting cow health, farm profits and student learning. The North Wales college’s working farm has adopted HerdVision, a smart agriculture system...
‘We are perilously close to the point of no return’: climate scientist on Amazon rainforest’s future
The Guardian
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June 26, 2025
3-Carlos Composite: AFP/Getty Images / Guardian Design For more than three decades, Brazilian climate scientist Carlos Nobre has warned that deforestation of the Amazon could push this globally important ecosystem past the point of no return....
Uruguay’s President attends groundbreaking ceremony for TUMO Center in Montevideo
Public Radio of Armenia
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June 18, 2025
Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi, along with several senior government officials, took part in the groundbreaking ceremony for a TUMO Center for Creative Technologies near Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, the Armenian Embassy in...
WVU Tech announces President’s List honorees for Spring 2025 semester
Lootpress - West Virginia
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June 25, 2025
BECKLEY, WV (LOOTPRESS) – West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech) has announced its President’s List for the Spring 2025 semester, recognizing students from the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Business, Engineering, and Nursing...
Uruguay Dances Until Dawn as Quevedo’s ‘Buenas Noches’ Lights Montevideo
LatinAmerican Post
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June 17, 2025
What began as an ordinary reggaetón concert became a dawn-long declaration of joy in Montevideo, where Quevedo—Spain’s 23-year-old streaming phenomenon—proved that a single voice, a wall of bass, and 15,000 beating hearts could bend time. From...
World Economic Forum Announces its Top 100 'Technology Pioneer' Startups for 2025 - 2 BC Tech Companies Recognized
T-Net
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World Economic Forum Announces its Top 100 'Technology Pioneer' Startups for 2025 - 2 BC Tech Companies Recognized The World Economic Forum selects 100 start-ups from 28 countries to join its Technology Pioneers community. The new cohort marks a...
Boosting inspection capabilities: Uruguay Customs invests in new scanners
World Customs Organization News
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The challenge that border controls represent for Customs is growing daily in terms both of cargo volume and in the complexity of external trade transactions. That very complexity is attractive to perpetrators of organized crime who seek to conduct...
World Economic Forum Announces 2025 Technology Pioneers Leading New Wave Of Global Innovation
Scoop
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The World Economic Forum selects 100 start-ups from 28 countries to join its Technology Pioneers community. The new cohort marks a global surge of emerging technologies, from smart robotics and spatial AI to flying taxis and scalable quantum...
Drought, Climate Change, and Scientific Diplomacy: A Collective Response from Latin America
Latinoamerica21
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June 23, 2025
Drought is no longer just a natural or cyclical phenomenon: it is one of the most destructive impacts of climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean. As global temperatures rise—as confirmed by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO),...
National Statement at the Intergovernmental Meeting on the Science-Policy Panel to Contribute Further to the Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste and to Prevent Pollution
Nevis Pages
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June 23, 2025
Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Marcus L. Natta Excellencies, colleagues, as this is the first time Saint Kitts and Nevis is taking the floor, we extend profound thanks to the Government and People of Uruguay for hosting this critical meeting. Saint Kitts...
Uruguayan Muslim Women's Organisation condemns Israeli attacks on Iran
Tehran Times
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June 13, 2025
The Fatima Zahra Muslim Women's Organisation of Uruguay has issued a statement strongly condemning Israel's recent military aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, calling the attack a violation of international law and an addition to the...
Nations Come Together to Establish New Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution
Nevis Pages
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June 21, 2025
Punta del Este, Uruguay – Against a challenging geopolitical backdrop and in a major move to protect people and planet, countries today came together to agree on a new global science-policy panel to support the sound management of chemicals and...
How to Recover From State Terror
The Atlantic
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July 11, 2025
In March 1985, I was likely one of the first American tourists to visit Argentina after a military junta relinquished power. Raúl Alfonsín, a human-rights lawyer, was leading the country’s first democratically elected government since the early...
International Alfajor Fair held in Montevideo, Uruguay
Xinhua News Agency
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A visitor tries to make a fruit snack with chocolate during the International Alfajor Fair in Montevideo, Uruguay, June 13, 2025. The International Alfajor Fair kicked off on Friday at the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU) in the capital...
"I preferred to come here, to learn from people who won everything" - Uruguayan star on decision to join Lionel Messi's Inter Miami
Sportskeeda
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June 13, 2025
Maximiliano Falcon has opened up on what prompted him to leave Colo-Colo and join Lionel Messi at Inter Miami. The Uruguayan defender was at the Chilean club since 2020. He joined the Herons this February for a reported fee of €1.95 million. Since...
Sulzer and Avalon Energy Group form strategic alliance to advance global production of SAF
Decarbonisation Technology
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July 10, 2025
10-07-2025 Avalon Energy Group LLC (“Avalon”), a U.S.-based developer of integrated sustainable energy projects, and Sulzer Chemtech (“Sulzer”), a global leader in separation and mixing technology, today announced the signing of a Strategic...