Tag: Climate change

• Tuesday, January 10th 2023 - 10:17 UTC

  Is Mass Cruise Tourism Safe for Antarctic Ecosystems?

  

  By Elizabeth Leane, Anne Hardy, Can Seng Ooi, Carolyn Philpott, Hanne E.F. Nielsen and Katie Marx – As the summer sun finally arrives for people in the Southern Hemisphere, more than 100,000 tourists will head for the ice. Traveling on one of more than 50 cruise ships, they will brave the two-day trip across the notoriously rough Drake Passage below Patagonia, destined for the polar continent of Antarctica.

• Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  SAERI: Climate change resilience in the Falklands Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems

  

  The Falkland Islands (FI) historically lacked herbivorous mammals. The introduction of grazing animals has led to vegetation changes and soil erosion. The impact of these changes on wetland and aquatic habitats is not well-understood; limited past research suggests that water quality may remain fairly natural and is largely influenced by sea salt deposition and humic acids from peat runoff. Some studies, however, have shown evidence of human impacts, such as elevated nutrient concentrations in some ponds.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 08:53 UTC

  Millions of rivers and lakes to be surveyed by a Nasa satellite

  

  NASA, the US space agency has launched a satellite that's expected to transform our view of water on Earth and further illustrate on climate change. The Swot, Surface Water and Ocean topography, the mission will map the precise height of rivers, reservoirs, and lakes, and track ocean surface features at unprecedented scales.

• Tuesday, December 20th 2022 - 08:04 UTC

  Falklands prepares for climate change, which is arriving with much less rainfall

  

  At the Legislative Assembly last week MLA Peter Biggs was invited to outline steps “the government and country had taken to coordinate a plan for climate action and assess and react our ocean needs, and landowners most pressing concern - our drying climate?”

• Thursday, December 1st 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Falklands paper on climate change and oceans' biodiversity accepted at the COP 27 summit in Egypt

  

  The Falkland Islands presented a paper on climate education to the COP 27 summit meeting in Egypt which was accepted as part of a presentation to a hub on climate change consequences and possible solutions. Marine Scientist Dr Narissa Bax from the South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI), made the presentation during her attendance of COP27.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2022 - 10:32 UTC

  Falklands part of the global climate crisis, both in consequences and attempts to find solutions

  

  Falklands Conservation has called for a commitment to a net-zero greenhouse gas target for the Falkland Islands by 2050 - in line with a range of other nations from around the globe - as CEO of Falklands Conservation Esther Bertram said that without action “the Falklands are part of the global climate crisis, both in feeling the consequences and in trying to find solutions.”

• Wednesday, November 30th 2022 - 10:19 UTC

  Iceberg calving in Antarctica and underwater tsunamis that alter ecosystems

  

  Ice in Antarctica flows to the coast along glacier-filled valleys. While some ice melts into the ocean, a lot breaks off into icebergs, which range in size from small chunks up to the size of a country.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2022 - 10:55 UTC

  Climate change consequences drastically cutting Argentina's winter and summer crops

  

  Climate change reality has caught up with Argentina with mounting uncertainties about summer crops, since the sowing of soybeans and corn is already below 40% of last year, already diminished.

• Monday, November 21st 2022 - 16:27 UTC

  COP27 ends in “historical” deal short of Europe's goals

  

  Delegates from the world over agreed Sunday on the need that wealthier nations should provide loss and damage funding to the countries most affected by climate change.

• Friday, November 18th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Lula to enforce international climate-related agreements

  

  Brazil's President-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Thursday pledged to enforce the international climate-related agreements once he takes office on Jan. 1 while advocating for global governance regarding these matters.