Environment

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 - 19:51 UTC

  Southern right whales at South Georgia acoustic messages, BAS Project report

  

  Scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS), and international collaborators have this week published the first detailed research on the sounds made by southern right whales on their high latitude feeding grounds at South Georgia.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 - 06:32 UTC

  Blue Belt Program launches Training Platform for UK Overseas Territories

  

  The Blue Belt Program has launched a comprehensive online training platform for the UK Overseas Territories. This will provide training and development of skills across a wide range of marine management themes, free of charge.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 - 06:21 UTC

  Brazil's Azul signs a one billion dollars deal with German manufacturer for 220 VTOL taxi aircraft

  

  Azul, Brazil's third-largest airline announced on Monday a one billion dollars accord with German manufacturer Lilium for the purchase of 220 of VTOL electric aircraft scheduled to begin operating in 2025.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 - 06:04 UTC

  Polar vessels RRS Sir David Attenborough and RSV Nuyina meet during sea trials

  

  UK and Australia’s two new polar research ships got together off the coast of Falmouth in July during sea trials in preparation for their first Antarctic missions. The state-of-the-art Falklands flagged RRS Sir David Attenborough and RSV Nuyina will enable scientists to understand changes in our planet’s climate, oceans and marine life.

• Sunday, August 1st 2021 - 11:57 UTC

  China shuts down nuclear power reactor for safety reasons

  

  Chinese authorities have decided to shut down a nuclear power plant in the southern area of Taishan “for maintenance” just one week after its French operator EDF publicly recommended its closure due to a fuel rod problem

• Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 09:20 UTC

  Port workers' strikes hinder Argentine exports of cereals

  

  With most Argentine ports along the Paraná river unoperational due to the historic downspout, Quequén, Necochea, and Bahía Blanca on the Atlantic coast would have become an alternative way out for agri-food exports had it not been for union strikes.

• Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Gas tanker runs aground in River Plate, stirs memories of Suez canal incident

  

  The Norwegian-flagged Hoegh Esperanza ship ran aground en route to Escobar in the shallow waters of the River Plate and needed to be towed out of its predicament so that navigation could resume.

• Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 07:44 UTC

  Argentina eolic power satisfied 24% of domestic electricity demand during July

  

  More than 24% of electric power demand in windy Argentina was supplied by eolic energy during the month of July, which is considered a historic record when it comes to renewable energies, pointed out by the country's Energy Secretariat.

• Saturday, July 31st 2021 - 07:29 UTC

  Italy determined to save “Patriarch” a millennial olive tree

  

  Italy is determined to save Patriarch, a millennial olive tree which the forest fires in Sardinia have devoured, but has mobilized tens of experts to try and recover this rare botanic antiquity. Patriarch is a wild olive, with a ten meters circumference trunk, some seventeen meters high which was almost completely destroyed by fire.

• Thursday, July 29th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Cold wave brings snow to several Brazilian cities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul

  

  At least 13 cities in the Brazilian State of Río Grande do Sul Wednesday recorded snowfalls, a rare event for the region, but one that has come to be due to this year's harsh winter temperatures.