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Environment - current issues Uruguay, in 34 editions.

The entry for Uruguay published Environment - current issues in 34 editions of 36, from 1990 to 2024. The text changed in 7 editions. Each is shown as published. Environment - current issues in every entry.

editions changed the text
7
the first edition with it
1990
the latest edition with it
2024

Published as “Environment” (1990 to 1996), “Environment - current issues” (1997 to 2024), “Environment-current issues” (1998) and “Environment--current issues” (1999).

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1996 edition

Changed since 1995

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Published as “Environment”

current issues:
  • substantial pollution from Brazilian industry along border;
  • one-fifth of country affected by acid rain generated by Brazil;
  • water pollution from meat packing/tannery industry;
  • inadequate solid/hazardous waste disposal
natural hazards:
  • seasonally high winds (the pampero is a chilly and occasional violent wind which blows north from the Argentine pampas), droughts, floods;
  • because of the absence of mountains, which act as weather barriers, all locations are particularly vulnerable to rapid changes in weather fronts
international agreements:
  • party to - Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands;
  • signed, but not ratified - Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation

current issues: substantial pollution from Brazilian industry along
border; one-fifth of country affected by acid rain generated by
Brazil; water pollution from meat packing/tannery industry; inadequate
inadequate solid/hazardous waste disposal
natural hazards: seasonally high winds (the pampero is a chilly and
occasional violent wind which blows north from the Argentine pampas),
pampas), droughts, floods; because of the absence of mountains,
which act as
weather barriers, all locations are particularly
vulnerable to rapid
changes in weather fronts
international agreements: party to - Antarctic-Environmental Protocol,
Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species,
Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the
Sea, Nuclear
Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution,
Wetlands; signed,
but not ratified - Marine Dumping, Marine Life
Conservation

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Uruguay: Environment - current issues.” The World Factbook, 1990–2024 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/uruguay/environment-current-issues.

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