Environment

Tuesday, November 28th 2023 - 20:30 UTC
South Georgia Marine Protected Area review and workshop in December

The South Georgia South Sandwich Islands, SGSSI, Marine Protected Area is currently undergoing its second 5-year review. Following on from the highly successful science symposium held in June 2023 and an internal Protected Area Management Evaluation (PAME), GSGSSI will be hosting a review workshop in December.
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Thursday, November 23rd 2023 - 09:42 UTC
Paraguayan Agriculture Minister has doubts about climate change

Paraguay's Agriculture Minister Carlos Giménez said Wednesday that he was seriously doubting there was such a thing as climate change. “There have always been droughts and floods in Paraguay,” he pointed out in a broadcast interview in Asunción.
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Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 23:43 UTC
Falklands' Johnny Rook cognitive abilities break all records

A team of comparative cognition researchers at the Messerli Research Institute from the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, working with a colleague from Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, in Argentina, has found that a type of falcon can perform as well as Goffin's cockatoos (parrots) in solving puzzles to gain a food reward, a remarkable sign of avian intelligence.
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Wednesday, November 22nd 2023 - 23:27 UTC
Concern over the ozone layer hole evolution in austral mid spring, NZ report

The hole in the Antarctic ozone layer has been getting deeper in austral mid-spring over the last two decades, according to New Zealand researchers working with scientists from Otago University and published in a new study in the journal Nature Communications.
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Saturday, November 18th 2023 - 10:37 UTC
World Bank grants Uruguay green-oriented loan

Uruguay has been granted an unprecedented US$ 350 million loan by the World Bank (WB). Although there is nothing new with borrowing, the so-called Programmatic Loan for Development Policies and Reform Implementation will entail a reduction of the interest rate whenever certain environmental goals are met, it was explained in Montevideo.
Thursday, November 16th 2023 - 10:21 UTC
Dire prospects to limiting global warming, points out “State of Climate Action” report

Measures to limit global warming to 1,5 degrees Celsius are lagging significantly points out the report, “State of Climate Action” compiled by a consortium of think tanks such as Climate Action Tracker, the UN Climate Change Hihg Level Champions and World Resources Institute.
Thursday, November 16th 2023 - 07:57 UTC
Hard times ahead for wine in Chile; climate change hits the industry in northern hemisphere

Hard times for the grape and wine sector in Chile, with a drastic drop in exports and slower domestic consumption, hitting the profits of both small and large industries and farmers.
Monday, November 13th 2023 - 20:54 UTC
Panama Canal shipping queues: Punta Arenas dreams of a re-edition of pre 1914 scenario

Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile and the South American continent is again illusioned with the re edition of pre 1914 times, before the United States finished the Panama Canal and created the state of Panama, significantly cutting the time of shipping wishing to cross from the Pacific to the Caribbean and vice versa, and ensuring safe and reliable links between the East and West coasts of the US.
Monday, November 13th 2023 - 20:34 UTC
Gentoo penguins: Dive, forage, love? Fitter penguins dive deeper

Sarah McComb Turbitt, marine biologist from the University of British Columbia illustrates us with a new study published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, from Dr. Marie Auger-Méthé, principal investigator and associate professor at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Statistics and Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries (IOF). The article interesting enough refers Gentoo penguins in the Falkland Islands.
Monday, November 13th 2023 - 10:55 UTC
Southern Brazil hit by unusual hot weather in spring

The beaches of Rio de Janeiro were overcrowded as a temperature of 42.5°C made Sunday the hottest day of the year amid a high-pressure system that is causing a heat wave which is believed to be linked to climate change, it was reported. The minimum temperature this Sunday was 23.2°C.