Environment

• Saturday, April 16th 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Brazilian scientists find new way to capture carbon from the atmosphere

  

  According to a report published Friday by Agencia Brasil, a group of scientists from that country has found new techniques which could be of use in forest recovery and increase the capture of carbon from the atmosphere. April 15 was Brazil's National Soil Conservation Day.

• Saturday, April 16th 2022 - 08:06 UTC

  Trying to understand the melting process of the largest ice shelf in Antarctica

  

  A new study by scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has used computer modeling to rank the factors responsible for the Larsen C ice shelf melt according to their severity. The review is an important contribution to the understanding of the largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.

• Friday, April 15th 2022 - 21:46 UTC

  Nearly 400 killed in “Biblical” South African floods

  

  Devastating floods throughout the whole week in South Africa have left at least 395 people dead by Friday and countless families displaced from their homes. While relief work continues, weather forecasts are anything but encouraging.

• Thursday, April 14th 2022 - 10:30 UTC

  Drones give HMS Protector the cutting edge to punch through polar ice

  

  Drone experts from Culdrose have given the Royal Navy’s Antarctic research ship ‘eyes in the sky’ to help Ice Patrol HMS Protector punch through the polar ice. Seventeen of the icebreaker’s crew are now qualified in operating drones from the deck of the ship, which has just completed her stint around the frozen continent for this season.

• Wednesday, April 13th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Brazil: Two reported dead in new clash involving garimpeiros

  

  A new armed confrontation allegedly involving garimpeiros has left at least two people dead and five others injured in Brazil's Yanomami Indigenous Land, it was reported.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  Chile: Santiago braces for emergency water rationing

  

  Local authorities in the Chilean capital have announced a water-rationing program to cope with shortages stemming from 13-year-old droughts, it was announced Monday in Santiago.

• Monday, April 11th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Former CAF, OAS agree on climate action and biodiversity agenda

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Development Bank of Latin America -formerly known as Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF)- have signed a memorandum of understanding whereby both institutions pledged to tackle environmental and climate issues together, it was announced.

• Saturday, April 9th 2022 - 15:44 UTC

  Atmospheric methane on the rise, NOAA warns

  

  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the US Department of Commerce has warned that the presence of methane reached new highs in 2021.

• Thursday, April 7th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Uruguay takes action as climate change threatens waters will advance on coastline

  

  Uruguay's Environment Ministry has launched the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the Coastal Zone (PAN Costas) to increase resilience to a rise in the level of the sea, resulting from climate change.

• Thursday, April 7th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Billions of people breathe unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide, WHO report

  

  Almost the entire global population (99%) breathes air that exceeds WHO air quality limits and threatens their health. A record number of over 6000 cities in 117 countries are now monitoring air quality, but the people living in them are still breathing unhealthy levels of fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide, with people in low and middle-income countries suffering the highest exposures.