Environment

• Saturday, January 23rd 2021 - 07:38 UTC

  Peat slips in the Falkland Islands and the unimaginable destruction of Stanley

  

  Penguin News published on the 15 January edition a historic piece on the two peat slips suffered by Stanley in 1878 and 1886, which caused unimaginable destruction and cut the settlement in two.

• Thursday, January 21st 2021 - 00:48 UTC

  Lufthansa to fly nontop to Falklands carrying German scientists

  

  German carrier Lufthansa Wednesday issued a press release confirming plans are underway for a nonstop charter flight between Hamburg and Mount Pleasant in the Falkland Islands for scientific purposes. The airline highlighted the trip will be one of its longest nonstop stretches ever.

• Tuesday, January 19th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Falklands Conservation advises on penguins’ 'catastrophic' moulting period

  

  Unlike all other birds, penguins go through what is called a “catastrophic” moult. For the penguin, it is probably as bad as it sounds. Falklands Conservation recalls that every penguin must moult once a year, normally between December to March, by drastically shedding all their feathers and re-growing new feathers in one go – hence the “catastrophic”.

• Friday, January 15th 2021 - 09:15 UTC

  Falkland Islands penguins’ catastrophic moulting and how you can help them

  

  Falklands Conservation has illustrated that unlike all other birds, penguins go through what is called a “catastrophic” moult. For the penguin it is probably as bad as it sounds. Every penguin must moult once a year, normally between December to March, by drastically shedding all their feathers and re-growing new feathers in one go – hence the “catastrophic.”

• Thursday, January 14th 2021 - 09:58 UTC

  Global deforestation gobbles an area bigger than Germany in a decade, WWF

  

  More than 43 million hectares of forest - an area bigger than Germany - have been lost in a little over a decade in just a handful of deforestation hot spots, conservation organization WWF said on Wednesday.

• Monday, January 11th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Algae blooms in the South West Atlantic caught on satellite images

  

  In austral spring and summer, conditions in the South Atlantic off Patagonia often become just right for phytoplankton, and populations of the plant-like organisms explode into enormous blooms.

• Friday, January 8th 2021 - 08:48 UTC

  Atmosphere carbon dioxide forecasted to reach 50% higher than before the industrial revolution

  

  Human activity will push concentrations of planet-warming carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to levels 50% higher than before the industrial revolution this year, breaching a symbolic climate change threshold, the UK's Met Office forecast on Friday.

• Tuesday, January 5th 2021 - 09:43 UTC

  Bolivian glacier disappearing and the capital La Paz running out of water

  

  Bolivia's Tuni glacier is disappearing faster than initially anticipated, according to scientists in the Andean nation, a predicament that will likely make worse water shortages already plaguing the capital La Paz, just 60 km away.

• Tuesday, January 5th 2021 - 09:36 UTC

  Dry weather threatens southern Brazil and eastern Argentina

  

  Dry weather across some of the major producing regions in South America is putting upward pressure on corn and soybean prices at the start the new year. Dryness is expected to continue through the short term across southern Brazil and especially in the main-producing states in Argentina.

• Monday, December 28th 2020 - 09:13 UTC

  WHO chief warns Covid-19 will not be the last pandemic: climate change and animal welfare must be addressed

  

  The coronavirus crisis will not be the last pandemic, and attempts to improve human health are “doomed” without tackling climate change and animal welfare, the World Health Organization's chief said.