Environment

• Friday, November 15th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  State of emergency for Venice, while tourists still enjoy the “acqua alta”

  

  Italy on Thursday declared a state of emergency for Venice after an exceptional tide surged through churches, shops and homes, causing millions of euros worth of damage to the UNESCO city.

• Thursday, November 14th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Exceptional high tide and sewage causing untold damage in Venice

  

  Dirty water swirls around marble tombs inside the 12th-century crypt of St Mark's Basilica in Venice, which suffered untold damage when an unprecedented high tide swept through the city. Pumps work overtime to clear the seawater from around the altar and under the pink and white stone arches, as the historic monument's custodians look on in sadness and anger.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Amazon native peoples call on EU parliament to protect their communities in Brazil

  

  The European Union should consider sanctions for companies that source materials from protected Brazilian forest reservations and native lands, an indigenous community representative said.

• Wednesday, November 13th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

  Fires in Australia reach outskirts of Sydney: 50 homes destroyed

  

  A cool change on Wednesday brought relief for firefighters battling massive bushfires in eastern Australia which destroyed 50 homes and saw flames come within meters of homes on the outskirts of Sydney.

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 11:06 UTC

  Australia bushfires: state of emergency along the eastern coast as it prepares for “catastrophic” conditions

  

  Authorities in Australia's Queensland and New South Wales states on Monday declared a state of emergency as the country's eastern region prepared for “catastrophic” fire conditions.

• Monday, November 11th 2019 - 10:24 UTC

  All whales released, secretly, from Russia's Far East “whale jail”, Moscow reports

  

  The last whales held in a notorious facility dubbed the “whale jail” in Russia's Far East were released on Sunday, the institute overseeing the operation said.

• Friday, November 8th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Falklands frustrated over future environmental funding after Brexit

  

  Falklands Conservation has expressed frustration on future environmental funding pledged by London once United Kingdom withdraws from the European Union.

• Wednesday, November 6th 2019 - 09:44 UTC

  CCAMLR fails to designate marine protection areas in East Antarctica, Pew regrets

  

  The Pew Charitable Trusts expressed disappointment that for an eighth consecutive year, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) ended its annual meeting without designating marine protections in the waters off East Antarctica. Member governments also failed to reach consensus on the designation of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Weddell Sea and Antarctic Peninsula.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Brazilians desperately cleaning the oil spill ahead of the peak tourism season

  

  Months after thick oil began turning idyllic beaches in Brazil into “black carpets,” workers and volunteers wearing rubber gloves race against time to scrape off the remaining fragments ahead of the country's peak tourism season.

• Tuesday, November 5th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  US formally notifies UN withdrawal from Paris climate accord

  

  United States on Monday formally notified the United Nations that it was withdrawing from the Paris climate accord, making the world's largest economy the sole outlier from the agreement. President Donald Trump went ahead with the pullout despite mounting evidence of the reality and impact of climate change, with September the fourth month in the row with near- or record-breaking temperatures.