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Montevideo, November 25th 2024 - 16:32 UTC

Environment

  • Saturday, February 8th 2020 - 11:09 UTC

    Greenpeace blames global warming for record temperatures in Antarctica

    The effects of global warming have already seen ocean levels rise due to melting ice caps

    Global warming is to blame for Argentine Antarctica recording its hottest day since readings began, Greenpeace said on Friday. Temperatures climbed to 18.3 degrees Celsius (64.9 degrees Fahrenheit) at midday Thursday at the research station Esperanza base, the highest temperature on record since 1961, according to the National Meteorological Service.

  • Friday, February 7th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

    “Falklands much closer to Brazil after the second flight”, UK ambassador

    UK ambassador in Brazil Vijay Rangarajan visit the Falkland Islands

    The British ambassador to Brazil, Vijay Rangarajan, this week said the second flight will bring the Falkland Islands closer to Brazil, describing it as a potential engine to help drive links between the two countries.

  • Friday, February 7th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

    Bumblebees essential for pollinating, suffer drastic declines in North America

    Rising temperatures are contributing to drastic declines of bumblebees across Europe and North America at rates “consistent with a mass extinction”

    When scientist Peter Soroye first saw the figures showing estimated bumblebee populations in North America had fallen by nearly 50% in a single generation, he thought it must be a typo. He checked the numbers - the result of a long-term analysis of bumblebee populations published in the journal Science on Thursday, seven times to be sure they were accurate.

  • Thursday, February 6th 2020 - 09:03 UTC

    The world's biggest iceberg, 6.000 sq km, is about to enter the open ocean heading for South Georgia

    A68 split from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in July 2017. For a year, it hardly moved, its keel apparently grounded on the seafloor.

    A68, a colossus that broke free from the Antarctic in 2017, has pushed so far north it is now at the limit of the continent's perennial sea-ice. When it calved, the berg had an area close to 6,000 sq km and has lost very little of its bulk over the past two and a half years.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

    Conservationists protecting monarch butterflies killed in Mexico

    Hernandez Romero showed signs of “blows to different parts of his body and a head injury caused by a sharp object,” the local public prosecutor said on Monday.

    A second Mexican conservationist active in protecting monarch butterflies has been found dead within days of each other, authorities said. The body of Raul Hernandez Romero was found on Saturday in the central-western state of Michoacan, where Homero Gomez Gonzalez was found at the bottom of a well last Wednesday, two weeks after going missing.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 06:53 UTC

    UK to ban sale of petrol, diesel and hybrid cars from 2035

    Britain's step amounts to a victory for electric cars that if copied globally could hit the wealth of oil producers, as well as transform the car industry

    Britain will ban the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars from 2035, five years earlier than planned, in an attempt to reduce air pollution that could herald the end of over a century of reliance on the internal combustion engine.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:45 UTC

    How we recruited albatrosses to patrol the high seas for illegal fishers

    An albatross colony in the Falkland Islands

    By Samantha Patrick (*) – Wandering albatrosses have long been considered exceptional creatures. They can fly 8.5 million kilometers during their lifetimes – the equivalent of flying to the Moon and back more than ten times. Their three-and-a-half-meter wing span is the same length as a small car and they can weigh as much as 24 puffins. Their body shape means they can effortlessly glide over the ocean waves, flying in some of the strongest winds on Earth. Now research led by the Centre d'études biologiques de Chizé in France has found that these seabirds may have promising careers in the fight against overfishing.

  • Friday, January 31st 2020 - 10:23 UTC

    State of emergency in Australia's capital surrounded by bushfire

    Officials said an uncontrolled fire in the ACT's south, on the doorstep of Canberra, had grown to 185 sq km, almost 8 per cent of the territory's land mass.

    Australian officials declared a state of emergency for the capital city of Canberra and surrounding regions on Friday, as soaring temperatures and strong winds threatened to propel a large bushfire beyond the control of firefighters.

  • Friday, January 31st 2020 - 08:48 UTC

    Heavy rains and flooding forecasted for Asuncion, Paraguay and Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Much of the heaviest rain through the middle of next week is expected to stay south and east of some of the areas hardest hit in January

    Although flooding rain has already hit parts of Brazil so far in 2020, more rain and flooding could strike the southern part of the country in the coming week. In addition to southern Brazil, other parts of South America may also be threatened.

  • Thursday, January 30th 2020 - 08:59 UTC

    Argentina/Falklands fisheries talks: what happened and what can be expected

    On Monday 20 January, the South Atlantic Scientific Committee was scheduled to meet in Buenos Aires, one of the regular meetings agreed

    Last week there was intense diplomatic activity regarding the Falkland Islands: the meeting of the Fisheries Subcommittee to be held in Buenos Aires on Monday 20 was suspended; the ambassadors before Great Britain and before the international organizations in Geneva, Renato Sersale di Cerisano and Carlos Foradori, were displaced and the secretary of Matters Related to the Falkland Islands, Daniel Filmus, made his presentation in New York in the Decolonization Committee, urging that a negotiation instance be promoted from the UN.