Environment

• Wednesday, June 24th 2020 - 07:42 UTC

  Magnitude 7,4 earthquake strikes the south of Mexico's Pacific coast

  

  A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck southern Mexico’s Pacific coast on Tuesday, killing at least five people and cutting off isolated villages, as well as causing damage to buildings hundreds of miles away in Mexico City.

• Monday, June 22nd 2020 - 10:00 UTC

  Major European investors warn Brazil with divestment if Amazon deforestation is not stopped

  

  Major European investment firms have said they will divest from beef producers, grains traders, and even government bonds in Brazil if they do not see progress in resolving the surging destruction of the Amazon rainforest.

• Monday, June 22nd 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Ocean floor topography to be completed by 2030; so far a fifth has been covered

  

  Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are going ahead despite the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, officials leading the project said, with almost a fifth covered so far.

• Sunday, June 21st 2020 - 06:40 UTC

  Giant tortoises grown in captivity returned into the wild in Galapagos Islands

  

  A group of giant tortoises who have lived in captivity for decades and helped rescue their species from the brink of extinction were released into the wild in the Galapagos Islands this week.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 13:23 UTC

  China increases protection of the pangolin to the same level as royal pandas

  

  Wildlife activists on Wednesday welcomed China's decision to remove pangolin parts from its official list of traditional medicines, as Beijing steps up protection of the heavily-trafficked endangered mammal.

• Thursday, June 11th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  Record twelve month deforestation in Brazil's Amazon: area equivalent to Lebanon

  

  Deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest was worse than previously reported in 2019, revised government data showed, during the first year of President Jair Bolsonaro, who is keen to develop the forest crucial to curbing global warming.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  Falklands will continue to invest in improving quality of life and prosperity of its people

  

  The Falkland Islands remain confident of the British government's support and defense of their sovereignty and self-determination right, and is working closely with London to ensure the Falklands interests are contemplated in the Brexit negotiations.

• Wednesday, June 10th 2020 - 05:34 UTC

  Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Deforestation of more than 10,000 square kilometers in one year

  

  The Brazilian Amazon has never lost so many square kilometers in eleven years. Between August 2018 and July 2019, 10,129 square kilometers of jungle were lost, according to the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe).

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 11:44 UTC

  “I ask all Member States to commit to protecting 30% of our blue planet by 2030”

  

  On World Oceans Day we recall that life underwater is essential to life on land. The ocean produces half of the oxygen we breathe. As a major heat and carbon sink, the ocean plays a fundamental role in mitigating climate change. The ocean also provides food for billions around the world.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 11:09 UTC

  ”On this World Oceans Day, we focus on Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean

  

  The COVID-19 pandemic is a sharp reminder of how we are all intimately connected -- to each other and to nature. As we work to end the pandemic and build back better, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity – and responsibility -- to correct our relationship with the natural world, including the world’s seas and oceans.