Environment

Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 18:30 UTC
BAS ends Antarctic season and organizing the return: chartered ship will leave Falklands for UK 3 May

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has announced exceptional plans to repatriate scientists, support teams and construction workers as they complete their Antarctic summer field season work.
Tuesday, April 7th 2020 - 07:48 UTC
Central Chile drought has residents and mining companies clash over water rights

With historically low river flows and reservoirs running dry due to drought, people in central Chile have found themselves particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. Years of resource exploitation and lax legislation have allowed most reservoirs in that part of the country to run dry.
Thursday, April 2nd 2020 - 08:55 UTC
Wild animals are slipping to explore empty streets of lock-downed cities

With humans retreating into their homes as more and more countries go under coronavirus lockdown, wild animals are slipping cover to explore the empty streets of some of the biggest cities. Wild boar have descended from the hills around Barcelona in Spain while sika deer are nosing their way around the deserted metro stations of Nara in Japan.
Tuesday, March 31st 2020 - 07:20 UTC
Morrison Falklands acquired by the Irish group RSK

RSK, an integrated environmental, engineering and technical services business, has acquired construction company Morrison Falklands Ltd (now trading as RSK Falkland Islands) and consulting engineering practice Nicholas O’Dwyer, according to reports in the Irish media.
Monday, March 30th 2020 - 08:50 UTC
Cleaner air in European cities as nitrogen dioxide levels drop with lockdowns

Air pollution has decreased in urban areas across Europe during lockdowns to combat the corona-virus, new satellite images showed on Monday, but campaigners warned city-dwellers were still more vulnerable to the epidemic. Cities including Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Milan and Frankfurt showed a reduction in average levels of noxious nitrogen dioxide over Mar 5-25, compared with the same period last year, according to the Sentinel-5 satellite images.
Saturday, March 28th 2020 - 08:54 UTC
A bright sight from coronavirus: industry and transport emissions in three EU cities down 40%

Air pollution from nitrogen dioxide has fallen by an estimated 40% in three European cities, according to new satellite data released by the European Space Agency (ESA), coinciding with a widespread lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Wednesday, March 25th 2020 - 08:54 UTC
Some of the things Covid 19 can be expected to change

By Gwynne Dyer – They teach you in journalism school never to use the phrase “…X has changed the world forever”. Or at least they should. Covid-19 is certainly not going to change the world forever, but it is going to change quite a few things, in some cases for a long time. Here’s eight of them, in no particular order.
Monday, March 23rd 2020 - 06:36 UTC
On World Water Day, UN launches flagship report on climate change

On World Water Day, the United Nations launched a flagship report which says that reducing both the impacts and drivers of climate change will require major shifts in the way we use and reuse the Earth’s limited water resources.
Monday, March 16th 2020 - 10:23 UTC
Oil drilling sediment shows Falklands could have suffered a tsunami a million years ago

Scientists have found evidence of ancient slope failures on the seafloor to the south of the Falkland Islands on the South Atlantic. Computer models suggest these underwater landslides would have been capable of sending waves crashing on to the Falklands' coastline that was tens of meters high.
Wednesday, March 11th 2020 - 08:41 UTC
Poachers in Kenya kill the only female white giraffe and her calf

Kenya's only female white giraffe and her calf have been killed by poachers, conservationists said on Tuesday, in a major blow for the rare animals found nowhere else in the world.