Environment

Thursday, November 5th 2020 - 08:35 UTC
Rescuers save some 100 pilot whales stranded in a Sri Lanka southwest beach

Over 100 pilot whales have been saved after being stranded on Sri Lanka’s southwest coast. A combination of the country's navy and volunteers worked together on an overnight operation to push the whales back out to sea in Panadura, Sri Lanka.
Friday, October 30th 2020 - 18:06 UTC
Drought impacts on Argentine corn planting and overall production and exports

Corn production in Argentina is likely to drop to 48 million tons in 2020-21 from 50 million tons in 2019-20, the US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service in Buenos Aires said in a report released on Thursday.
Friday, October 30th 2020 - 09:43 UTC
Climate change: the Arctic Ocean sea ice has yet to start refreezing

By Gwynne Dyer – Historically, the Arctic Ocean would freeze right out to its edges (the northern coasts of Canada, Greenland, Russia, and Alaska) each winter — 14-million square kilometers of ice — and then melt back to about half that area over the following summer. Not this year.
Thursday, October 29th 2020 - 09:20 UTC
Major US funds involved in Amazon degradation and indigenous rights violations, claim environmental groups

Major US financial firms are helping fund environmental destruction and indigenous rights abuses in the Amazon with billions of dollars in investments in questionable companies, according to a report published on Tuesday.
Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 08:50 UTC
Brazil extends to May 2022 military deployment to protect the Amazon rainforest

Brazil’s conservative government will extend the military’s deployment to fight the destruction of the Amazon rainforest by five months through April 2021 from its previous November end date, Vice President Hamilton Mourao said on Monday.
Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 08:49 UTC
The Atlantic ocean first 200 meters water layer holds 12 to 21 million tons of micro plastic waste

Researchers have made micro plastic measurements in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. In the first 200 meters of the water layer, they estimate that there are approximately 12 to 21 million tons of waste.
Monday, October 26th 2020 - 09:50 UTC
Drought and wildfires devastating South America's wetlands and forests

Experts say the wildfires in a region that spans Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay – especially the region between the Paraguay, Parana, and Uruguay rivers – have become critical in 2020.
Monday, October 26th 2020 - 09:10 UTC
Researcher study of seabird ecosystem shift in the Falklands

Roughly 5,000 years ago, seabirds colonized the Falkland Islands in record numbers. The new research – published in the journal Science Advances – suggests the seabirds arrived around the same time that the South Atlantic cooled, and their arrival shifted the ecosystems on the Falkland Islands.
Friday, October 23rd 2020 - 09:20 UTC
Scientists found plastic debris in the digestive track of southern right whale stranded in Argentina

Scientists found plastic debris in the digestive tract of a southern right whale stranded in Argentina, according to a study from the Southern Right Whale Health Monitoring Program, co-led by the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine; and Instituto de Conservación de Ballenas in Argentina.
Thursday, October 22nd 2020 - 08:50 UTC
Britain's new polar ship Sir David Attenborough begins sea trials

Britain's new polar ship, RRS Sir David Attenborough, has left her Merseyside construction yard. Sirens and accompanying tugboats marked the Attenborough's departure from builder Cammell Laird's wet dock at Birkenhead. Four years in the making, the £200m vessel is about to venture out on a series of sea trials.