Environment

• Wednesday, February 17th 2021 - 08:48 UTC

  Re-wilding Project: the Jaguar has returned to South America wetlands after 70 years

  

  The largest predator in South America, the jaguar, has returned to the Iberá wetlands in Argentina 70 years after the species was driven to local extinction through hunting and habitat loss. Currently, only about 200 jaguars remain in Argentina.

• Wednesday, February 17th 2021 - 08:07 UTC

  Jaguar will be all electric by 2025

  

  Jaguar Land Rover's Jaguar brand will be all-electric by 2025, the carmaker announced. The company will launch electric models of its entire Jaguar and Land Rover line-up by 2030, it added.

• Friday, February 12th 2021 - 09:35 UTC

  China doing its homework and ozone layer recovery back on track

  

  In recent years, scientists had been alarmed by a sudden unexplained rise in ozone attacking chemicals in the atmosphere. Higher levels of trichlorofluoromethane, also known as CFC-11, were showing up in air samples — despite being officially banned worldwide since 2010.

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 09:06 UTC

  Magallanes Region salmon farmers agree on an Ethics Code, first in Chile

  

  An Ethics Code to guide Chilean fish farms was announced and apparently accepted by the industry, the Salmon Breeders of Magallanes Region Association said in a release.

• Thursday, February 11th 2021 - 08:51 UTC

  Moderate tsunami generated in the South Pacific following 7,7 magnitude earthquake

  

  A 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Pacific on Thursday, generating a tsunami that threatened island nations in the region. The quake struck at just after midnight on Thursday local time (1320 GMT Wednesday) about 415 kilometers east of Vao in New Caledonia at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the US Geological Survey.

• Wednesday, February 10th 2021 - 03:44 UTC

  Falklands' vaccination program in the Camp might be delayed due to weather conditions

  

  The Falkland Islands Government Air Service, FIGAS, has advised that the weather conditions are not particularly favourable for the planned vaccination flights due to take place in Camp and the Outer Islands on Wednesday.

• Monday, February 8th 2021 - 10:14 UTC

  Brazil's OECD membership blocked by Bolsonaro's environmental policies

  

  OECD’s environmental policy committee canceled a planned discussion this week about upgrading Brazil’s status in the group, the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper reported, citing a document.

• Saturday, February 6th 2021 - 08:20 UTC

  Hamburg/Falklands/Munich: details from Lufthansa's longest nonstop flights

  

  An airline preparing to launch its longest-ever flight – a fifteen-hour non-stop flight from Hamburg Germany to the Falkland Islands in an A350 – is as tricky a project as one might expect.

• Saturday, February 6th 2021 - 07:20 UTC

  Falklands planning climate adaptation strategy to help farmers combat the lack of water

  

  Lafonia, the lower half of East Falklands is suffering from a drought and this has an impact for farmers and rural activities, a situation that was pointed out by Goose Green manager Keith Alazia when he revealed that water sources “have all but dried up around Lafonia.”

• Saturday, February 6th 2021 - 04:29 UTC

  Thousands of dead fish wash up on a Chilean beach

  

  Thousands of fish mysteriously washed up on shore on Horcones Beach in Chile’s south-central Biobío region, amidst fears that changes in water temperature and quality may have been the cause.