Environment

• Monday, September 9th 2019 - 10:17 UTC

  Extra team of medics and HMS Protector re tasked to Bahamas disaster area

  

  The Royal Navy has deployed extra medics to join Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Mounts Bay in delivering humanitarian assistance to the Bahamas following Hurricane Dorian. A team of 18 military medical staff arrived in the region and will provide emergency care, surgery and intensive care to those in need.

• Monday, September 9th 2019 - 08:44 UTC

  Australia battling more than 100 bushfires in what is expected to be a severe dry spring

  

  Australian firefighters battled more than 100 bushfires across two eastern states on Sunday as authorities warned that parts of the country could expected a severe bushfire season this summer.

• Sunday, September 8th 2019 - 12:08 UTC

  Nomination of Brazilian top public prosecutor rejected by his peers

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Thursday that he picked Augusto Aras to be the country’s new top public prosecutor, succeeding Raquel Dodge when her two-year term ends in two weeks.

• Saturday, September 7th 2019 - 09:36 UTC

  Bolsonaro calls for an outburst of flag colors on Independence Day to remind the world “Amazon is ours”

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro has urged people to attend the September 7 Independence Day festivities dressed in green and yellow to “show the world” that “the Amazon is ours.”

• Saturday, September 7th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Brazil's agribusiness joins the campaign to stop rainforest fires in the Amazon

  

  The Brazilian Amazon is facing its worst spate of forest fires since 2010, with news of the destruction of the world's largest rainforest last month prompting global outcry and worries that it could hurt demand for the country's exports.

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Falklands' waters joint scientific cruise with Argentina to assess Southern blue whiting biomass

  

  Argentina announced on Wednesday the start of a joint scientific cruise in Falkland Islands' waters to assess Southern blue whiting reproductive biomass, in the framework of the South West Atlantic Fisheries Commission Scientific Sub-Committee activities.

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Major oil companies billions in investments incompatible with Paris climate accord, claims energy think-tank

  

  Major oil companies have approved US$50 billion of projects since last year that will not be economically viable if governments implement the Paris Agreement on climate change, think-tank Carbon Tracker said in a report published on Friday.

• Friday, September 6th 2019 - 09:18 UTC

  Desperate need for medicines, food and shelter in Bahamas ravaged by hurricane Dorian

  

  More than 76,000 people out of a population of 395.000, could require food and other aid in the Bahamas after the Caribbean nation was ravaged by Hurricane Dorian, the UN's World Food Program said on Thursday, with eight tons of supplies ready to arrive.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:56 UTC

  Bolsonaro accused Bachelet of meddling in Brazil´s affairs for condemning police violence

  

  Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday accused Chile's former leader Michelle Bachelet, now the United Nations human rights chief, of meddling in his country's affairs after she criticized a rise in police violence and an erosion of democracy.

• Thursday, September 5th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Bolivia admits forest fires has destroyed 1.7 million hectares

  

  Wildfires raging in Bolivia's forests and grasslands since May have destroyed 1.7 million hectares, officials said on Wednesday, amid a US$11 million effort by the government to contain them.