Stories for December 2007

Friday, December 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Past decade warmest on record: 0.41 Celsius above average

The past decade has been the warmest on record, with this year's global mean surface temperature 0.41 degrees Celsius, or 0.74 degrees Fahrenheit, above the 1961-1990 annual average, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization Who announced this week.
Friday, December 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
UN backed pact to protect sharks and control finning

Dozens of governments agreed in principle to a new United Nations global agreement to protect sharks, which have long been neglected by conservationists and overexploited by the modern fishing industry.
Friday, December 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Falkland Islands: Weekly Penguin News update

Headlines: Historic rock arrives at memorial; Monte mishap causes Norwegian Dream to cancel; Access to remote islands restricted.
Friday, December 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Inflation emerges as the main challenge for US and EU

November inflation in United States and the European Union rose at faster paces than anticipated spurred by energy and food prices. Consumer prices in November in the US rose 0.8% over October while in the 13 nation Euro zone block they climbed to 3.1% compared to November last year and up from October's 2.6% increase.
Friday, December 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Fish farm parasites threaten Canada's wild salmon

Wild salmon on Canada's west coast are being driven to extinction by parasites from nearby fish farms, a study claims. Wild pink salmon around the Broughton Archipelago are declining rapidly and will die out within 10 years if no action is taken, say researchers.
Friday, December 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Antarctica Ice Marathon & 100K ready to take off

Twenty athletes from all over the world are waiting in Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile, to fly to Antarctica for this year's edition of the “Antarctic Ice Marathon & 100k”, a charity competition.
Friday, December 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Passenger jet link to Australian Antarctic Territory ice runway

A passenger jet has made a historic landing on a new blue ice runway in Australia's Antarctic territory and regular flights are expected to start within a week, officials said Wednesday.
Friday, December 14th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Floating storage vessel helps Petrobras increase oil production

Brazil's government controlled oil corporation Petrobras took a major step this week to increase production from the Roncador field in the Campos Basin offshore Brazil.
Thursday, December 13th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Prospective Falklands' candidates condemn Argentine claim

Predictably prospective Falkland Islands councillors condemned the Argentine claim to the Islands in electioneering speeches Wednesday evening.
Thursday, December 13th 2007 - 20:00 UTC
Greenspan replies to critics who blame him for housing crisis

The U.S. subprime mortgage crisis was an “accident waiting to happen” as a period of unprecedented global growth seduced investors into under-pricing risk, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan argued in an article published by The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday.