Environment

Thursday, August 21st 2025 - 10:25 UTC
Scientists on a joint expedition to “visualize the deep off the Uruguayan coast”

This Next Friday August 22nd, R/V Falkor (too) from the California based Schmidt Ocean Institute, departs with a team of scientists from Uruguay’s main University for a month long expedition to “visualize the deep off the Uruguayan coast”.
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Thursday, August 21st 2025 - 09:19 UTC
Falklands, BFSAI and MPA capabilities in the challenging winter conditions

Whilst personnel in the UK are enduring yet another heatwave in 2025, Royal Air Force Service Personnel on the other side of the world are experiencing quite the opposite!
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Tuesday, August 19th 2025 - 10:00 UTC
Tsunami ruled out in Chile after earthquake

A 5.7-magnitude earthquake was reported early Tuesday in the Drake Sea, with its epicenter located 249 kilometers south of Puerto Williams, in the Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region. Following the seismic event, the Chilean Navy's Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy (SHOA) ruled out any possibility of a tsunami affecting the Chilean coast.
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Monday, August 18th 2025 - 09:31 UTC
Al Gore says Washington has “schizophrenic” approach to climate change

During his recent trip to Brazil, former US Vice President Al Gore said that his country's stance on the climate crisis was “schizophrenic,” changing from one view to another, depending on who ruled. In his first term in office, between 2017 and 2021, Donald Trump withdrew the US from the Paris Agreement, whose main objective is to limit global warming to 1.5°C. But then came Joseph Biden, and the country returned to the agreement, only to pull out yet again with Trump's second term.
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Monday, August 18th 2025 - 08:30 UTC
Bad weather expected in southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina

Weather forecasters in southern Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina foresee stormy conditions early this week due to an extratropical cyclone expected to bring severe havoc to the region.
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Monday, August 18th 2025 - 05:33 UTC
Another Trump “imperial” challenge: warns maritime transport decarbonization supporting countries

Another challenge and clash with the President Trump administration, this time with the so called “global carbon tax,” imposed by an “unaccountable UN organization”, the International Maritime Organization, IMO.
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Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 06:40 UTC
Antarctic researcher remains, working for Falklands’ Dependency, 66 years ago, found in receding glacier

The remains of an Antarctic researcher have been discovered by a Polish team among rocks exposed by a receding glacier in Antarctica. They are identified by DNA as those of Dennis ‘Tink’ Bell, a 25 year-old meteorologist who was working for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), the predecessor of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). He died in a crevasse on a glacier at Admiralty Bay on King George Island, situated off the Antarctic Peninsula on 26 July 1959. His body was never recovered.
Tuesday, August 12th 2025 - 04:53 UTC
Falklands, Pollution Prevention and Waste Management Approved by ExCo

The Executive Council has approved a Pollution Prevention and Waste Management Strategy for the Falkland Islands. The strategy aims to provide a clear plan to address the long-term reduction and prevention of pollution and control of waste in the Falklands, in a way that suits the unique context of the Islands.
Monday, August 11th 2025 - 10:03 UTC
Falklands: Public Consultation on the Draft Islands Wildfire Strategy

The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) would like to remind the public that views are still sought in the consultation on the Draft Falkland Islands Wildfire Strategy.
Monday, August 11th 2025 - 08:49 UTC
Falklands: Measures to minimize disturbance of penguin colonies

With the next cruise ship season approaching, the Falkland Islands Government (FIG) Environment Department has been working in partnership with the Falkland Islands Tourist Board (FITB) to update the set of guidelines for operators and tourists visiting the Gypsy Cove and Yorke Bay penguin colonies on cruise ship days.