Latest South America Stories
LUXEMBOURG, Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Adecoagro SA (NYSE: AGRO), one of the leading agricultural companies in South America, announced today the pricing of an underwritten secondary offering of 13,900,000 common shares offered by HBK Master Fund LP at a price per share to the public of $8.00. The selling shareholder has granted to Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, the sole underwriter in the offering, a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,085,000 of the common shares....
OXFORD, England, Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- After a solid 2012, where Global light vehicle sales increased to 81 million units - a 5 percent increase over the previous year - LMC Automotive forecasts a slower expansion for 2013. Sales are expected to rise by 3 percent to 83 million units this year. In 2012, regional performances varied strongly, however. Markets in North America and much of Asia faired well while those in Europe and, to a lesser degree, South America, suffered...
ALBANY, New York, January 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a new market report "Energy Efficient Lamps and Ballasts Market - Latin America (South America, Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Central America) Industry Analysis, Market Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2012 - 2018," published by Transparency Market Research (http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com), the market for energy efficient lamps in Latin America is expected to reach USD 3,552.4...
STOCKHOLM, January 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Proactive Gaming, the latest Swedish super-Gazelle, has signed a record contract, with Sweden's leading licensed bingo provider, Idrottens Spel, en route for a platform expansion in Europe and South America. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121206/582235 ) "Our cooperation with Proactive Gaming [http://www.proactivegaming.com/company ] has been extremely creative and will result in an astonishing bingo...
PANAMA CITY, Jan. 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Copa Airlines, subsidiary of Copa Holdings, S.A., {NYSE: CPA} today announced its growth plan for the first half of 2013, which includes the start of new nonstop service to Boston, Massachusetts in the United States; an increase in flight frequencies to three of its main destinations; and expansion of its fleet. The growth strengthens the airline's regional leadership, offering the fastest and most efficient way to make connections throughout...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Lowland tapirs are strange forest and grassland-dwelling herbivores with trunk-like snouts. A group of scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has documented a thriving population living in a network of remote national parks spanning the Peru-Bolivia border. WCS used a combination of camera traps and interviews with park guards and subsistence hunters to estimate the size of the population at around 14,500 tapirs in...
VANCOUVER, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Silver Standard Resources Inc. (NASDAQ: SSRI), (TSX: SSO) ("Silver Standard" or the "Company") announced the appointment of two additional directors, Mr. Gustavo Herrero and Mr. Steve Reid, to its Board of Directors ("Board"). The Board approved the appointments to gain additional expertise in the oversight of operations and development activities in Mexico and South America, key areas of focus for the Company. The appointments are...
As they typically result from severe external perturbations, it is of vital interest how stable the most desirable state is. Surprisingly, this basic question has so far received little attention. Now scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), in a paper published in Nature Physics, propose a new concept for quantifying stability. "Up to now, science was able to say if a complex system is stable or not, but it wasn't able to properly say how stable it is," says...
Moqueta-7 flows 1,146 BOPD from four oil flow tests; Loma Montosa flows 840 BOPD from first horizontal fracture stimulated well CALGARY, Jan. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Gran Tierra Energy Inc. ("Gran Tierra Energy") (NYSE MKT: GTE, TSX: GTE), a company focused on oil exploration and production in South America, today provided updates for its exploration and operation activities in Colombia, Argentina, Peru and Brazil. "Gran Tierra Energy has confirmed additional resource potential...
LUXEMBOURG, Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ADECOAGRO S.A. (NYSE:AGRO, Bloomberg: AGRO US, Reuters. AGRO.K), one of the leading agricultural companies in South America, announced today that on December 27, 2012, it completed the sale and lease back of 51% of the "Santa Regina" farm, located in General Villegas, province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Under the terms of the agreement, Adecoagro sold 51% of the outstanding shares of Santa Regina S.A., a company whose main asset is the Santa Regina...
Latest South America Reference Libraries
The grey slender opossum (Marmosops incanus) can be found in South America, in a small range that includes only Brazil. Its preferred habitat includes both primary and secondary forests, humid lowland coastal areas at elevations between 2,624 and 4,265 feet. This species can only breed once per year, and displays an odd method of breeding. During this period, males will breed just before they die in a method known as semelparous breeding. It is thought that the grey slender opossum occurs in...
North America is a continent completely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost completely within the Western Hemisphere. It’s also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It’s bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. This continent covers an area of approximately 9,540,000 sq miles, about 4.8 percent of the plants surface or about...
The white-headed Capuchin (Cebus capucinus) is a New World monkey that is native to Central America, as well as the far northwestern area of South America. It is also known as the white-faced capuchin and the white-throated capuchin. Its Central American range includes Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama. Reports have shown that it may occur in southern Belize and eastern Guatemala, but these reports have not been confirmed. Its South American range is limited to the northwestern area...
The dire wolf (Canis dirus) is an extinct wolf that was most common to North and South America. This carnivorous mammal lived for approximately 1.79 million years, existing throughout the Irvingtonian stage to the Rancholabrean stage of the Pleistocene era. It is related to the grey wolf, although it was larger and has no direct line to any living species. In 1854, the type specimen of the dire wolf was found in Evansville, Indiana. Joseph Granville Norwood acquired the specimen, a...
The desert red bat, or western red bat, is one of 318 species of vesper bats. These bats can be found in North America, Central America, and even down to the northern most parts of South America. Like birds, the desert red bat migrates to warmer, desert climates during winter and returns to cooler climates during warm seasons. Males and females of this species have different migrating habits, and this hinders mating because they are always in different areas at different times. They will mate...
