Environment

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Giant 350bn tons of ice calve from the Amery shelf in Antarctica

  

  For nearly 20 years, researchers have closely watched a “loose tooth” of ice dangle from the edge of the Antarctic ice sheet, waiting for it to detach.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazilian soy farmers concerned with new Bayer biotech herbicide, Dicamba

  

  Brazilian farmers are wary of the imminent introduction of a new genetically modified soy seed technology because of the risks associated with dicamba, a herbicide the biotech product is designed to tolerate.

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 08:18 UTC

  Major oil spill along the Brazilian coastline of eight states, 3.000 kilometers

  

  An oil spill has contaminated beaches and coastline across eight Brazilian states, the country’s environment agency said, although authorities are still stumped as to its origin.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 21:24 UTC

  Chilean helicopter rescues Polish scientists stranded in a Zodiac

  

  What was to be a simple shift of scientists from the Polish station Henryk Arcotowski in the Antarctica Peninsula turned out into a dramatic rescue operation, involving the Chilean Air Force, after the three were stranded in a Zodiac for over three hours five miles offshore surrounded by ice and freezing winds.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

  UN apocalyptic report on global warming devastating consequences for oceans and frozen spaces

  

  Two days after a climate summit failed to deliver game-changing pledges to slash carbon emissions, the United Nations warned on Wednesday that global warming is devastating oceans and Earth's frozen spaces in ways that directly threaten a large slice of humanity.

• Thursday, September 26th 2019 - 08:46 UTC

  Precious fauna perished in weeks of wildfires in Bolivian forest and grassland

  

  More than two million wild animals, including jaguars, pumas and llamas, have perished in weeks of wildfires that devastated huge swathes of Bolivian forest and grassland, environmental experts said on Wednesday. The fires devastated the Chiquitania tropical savanna in the east of the country.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  Bolsonaro tells UN the Amazon rainforest belongs to Brazil and attacks world media for 'lying'

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attacked the media on Tuesday for “lying” about the fires in the Amazon and criticized international concern for the rainforest as fueled by interest in the region’s biodiversity and mineral wealth.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2019 - 09:45 UTC

  Trump's Twitter mocking Greta Thunberg backfires

  

  Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg shot back at on Tuesday at US President Donald Trump's attempt to mock her on Twitter by changing her profile on the social media site to reflect Trump's taunting remark.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Thunberg berates older generations at UN Summit for their disregard of climate issues

  

  A group of 16 young activists led by Greta Thunberg, denounced Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany and Turkey to the UN for not protecting children from the impact of climate change in one of Monday's highlights at the historic climate summit in New York convened by the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

• Tuesday, September 24th 2019 - 08:22 UTC

  Polar expedition experts meet for international Field Guide Conference

  

  Polar field guides are descending on Sturbridge, Massachusetts for the third bi-annual International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) and the Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators (AECO) joint Polar Field Staff Conference.