Environment

• Wednesday, June 10th 2020 - 05:34 UTC

  Brazilian Amazon Rainforest: Deforestation of more than 10,000 square kilometers in one year

  

  The Brazilian Amazon has never lost so many square kilometers in eleven years. Between August 2018 and July 2019, 10,129 square kilometers of jungle were lost, according to the National Institute for Space Research (Inpe).

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 11:44 UTC

  “I ask all Member States to commit to protecting 30% of our blue planet by 2030”

  

  On World Oceans Day we recall that life underwater is essential to life on land. The ocean produces half of the oxygen we breathe. As a major heat and carbon sink, the ocean plays a fundamental role in mitigating climate change. The ocean also provides food for billions around the world.

• Tuesday, June 9th 2020 - 11:09 UTC

  ”On this World Oceans Day, we focus on Innovation for a Sustainable Ocean

  

  The COVID-19 pandemic is a sharp reminder of how we are all intimately connected -- to each other and to nature. As we work to end the pandemic and build back better, we have a once-in-a-generation opportunity – and responsibility -- to correct our relationship with the natural world, including the world’s seas and oceans.

• Monday, June 8th 2020 - 07:25 UTC

  End of Antarctic summer season: BAS staff and construction teams finally make it back to the UK

  

  Almost a month after deciding on the repatriation operation, British Antarctic Survey (BAS) research and support teams are returning from Antarctica to UK after a 20-day sea voyage onboard a charter ship and the Royal Research Ship (RRS) James Clark Ross. On Saturday the MS Hebridean Sky arrived at Portsmouth International, and this Tuesday RRS James Clark Ross is expected at Harwich Port.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 07:39 UTC

  EC increases Maritime and Fisheries Fund with €500 million

  

  In a press conference, Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans, and Fisheries, explained the Commission’s decision to increase the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) with €500 million.

• Tuesday, June 2nd 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Storm in Central America leaves at least 18 dead, and hundreds homeless

  

  Emergency workers were searching for seven people still missing Monday as El Salvador and its Central American neighbors picked through the destruction after the first-named Pacific storm of the year left at least 18 people dead.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 07:56 UTC

  Sea turtles spotted next to Rio's coastal airport as flights drops dramatically

  

  Sea turtles have been spotted swimming amid garbage next to an airport in Brazil’s tourist hotspot of Rio de Janeiro, as the scream of jet engines that would normally keep them away has been largely silenced due to the coronavirus pandemic.

• Thursday, May 28th 2020 - 07:30 UTC

  Mining giant Rio Tinto admits blowing up ancient Australian aboriginal rock shelters

  

  Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has admitted damaging ancient Aboriginal rock shelters in the remote Pilbara region in Australia, blasting near the 46,000-year-old heritage site to expand an iron ore mine.

• Friday, May 22nd 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Climate change turning Antarctica “green” as algae blooms proliferate

  

  Antarctica conjures images of an unbroken white wilderness but blooms of algae are giving parts of the frozen continent an increasingly green tinge. Warming temperatures due to climate change are helping the formation and spread of “green snow” and it is becoming so prolific in places that it is even visible from space, according to new research.

• Wednesday, May 20th 2020 - 22:02 UTC

  In post-pandemic, making the transport sector “green” could create 15 million new jobs, ILO

  

  Transforming the transport sector to be more environmentally-friendly in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, could create up to 15 million new jobs worldwide and help countries move to greener, healthier economies, according to an UN-backed report published on Tuesday.