Environment

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  One of Mexico's most dangerous volcanoes belched ash and rock into the sky

  

  Mexico's Popocatepetl volcano dramatically spewed a fiery cloud of ash and rock into the sky on Thursday, though it did not prompt authorities to raise their eruption alert level.

• Thursday, January 9th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Italian cities combat harmful emissions and smog by curbing traffic

  

  More than a dozen cities and towns across Italy introduced traffic curbs on Wednesday in a bid to cut harmful emissions following a spike in pollution. A prolonged period of sunny weather with little rain or wind has pushed up air pollution across the country, triggering smog alerts in more than 60 municipalities.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 09:26 UTC

  Australia warned to prepare for another wave of evacuations as temperatures again begin to rise

  

  Australian authorities warned people on Wednesday to prepare for another wave of evacuations as temperatures in the country's southeast began to rise after a days-long cool spell, bringing the danger of revitalized blazes.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Australian bushfires smoke reaches Uruguay and the South of Brazil

  

  Smoke from bushfires raging across Australia reached Brazil on Tuesday, an arm of the National Institute for Space Research said on Twitter. Referring to satellite images, the agency's Department of Remote Sensing said the smoke had arrived in Brazil's southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul.

• Tuesday, January 7th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Australia cloud smoke reaches Chile, Argentina and is expected in Uruguay

  

  The cloud of smoke caused by raging bushfires in Australia has been spotted more than 12,000km away in Chile and Argentina, weather authorities in the South American countries said on Monday. Meteorologists in Uruguay expect the cloud in the next 24 hours.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:24 UTC

  Bushfires in Australia threaten the dairy industry; “thousands of cattle have been lost”

  

  Bushfires across Australia's east coast are set to pile on more pain for the country's dairy industry, already hurt by a prolonged drought, as processors in one of the world's largest exporters face tightening milk supplies.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 09:23 UTC

  Australian troops deployed to help in three states; bushfires destroyed an area the size of Ireland

  

  Reserve troops were deployed to fire-ravaged regions across three Australian states on Monday after a torrid weekend that turned swathes of land into smoldering, blackened hellscapes.

• Monday, January 6th 2020 - 08:41 UTC

  New Zealanders rush to try and save a pod of stranded whales

  

  About 1,000 people rushed to a New Zealand beach over the weekend to try to save a pod of whales that stranded overnight, overwhelming conservation workers who were appealing for specialist assistance.

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  Australian navy in emergency evacuation operations; PM Morrison jeered by bushfire victims

  

  The Australian navy on Friday began evacuating around 1,000 people stranded on the east coast of the fire-ravaged country as a searing weather front was set to whip up more blazes across the states of Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:57 UTC

  Mendoza reinstates law that protects water resources following public uproar over a bill favoring mining

  

  A controversial mining law that sparked massive protests in the province of Mendoza in Argentina’s western-central region was finally abolished. The province's governor Rodolfo Suárez presented a formal request before the legislature on Monday, and with 34 votes in favor and 2 against, the Senate approved the annulment.