Environment

• Tuesday, August 20th 2019 - 20:07 UTC

  Brazilian bees decimated by pesticides which are banned in Europe

  

  More than half a billion bees dropped dead in Brazil within just three months, according to Bloomberg. Researchers say the main cause of death is pesticides, which could end up affecting more than the bees.

• Tuesday, August 20th 2019 - 17:20 UTC

  Spanish actor Bardem calls for a world accord to protect the oceans

  

  Spanish actor Javier Bardem on Monday defended the need for a world pact to protect the oceans, just as the third round of negotiations on the subject is kicking off at the United Nations, where he is participating as an ambassador for Greenpeace.

• Monday, August 19th 2019 - 22:13 UTC

  Qatar painting roads in blue to combat effects of extreme heat

  

  City administration of the capital of Qatar, Doha, began painting city roads in blue, as part of a pilot project to combat the effects of extreme heat. Qatar is scheduled to host the 2022 World Cup.

• Monday, August 19th 2019 - 09:53 UTC

  Falkland Islander will be one of the captains of Australia's new state of the art icebreaker

  

  Australia’s new icebreaker, RSV Nuyina, is scheduled to make its maiden voyage to Antarctica in 2020-21. Two captains have already been named to lead the alternating crews operating the new vessel. They are Captain Scott Laughlin and Falkland Islander Captain Paul Clarke, both with experienced track records working in the Southern Ocean.

• Monday, August 19th 2019 - 09:19 UTC

  Iceland unveils a plaque to the loss of the first of the country's glaciers

  

  Iceland unveiled a plaque to its Okjokull ice sheet on Sunday, the first of the country's hundreds of glaciers to melt away due to climate change. Scientists see the shrinking of glaciers as one of many warning signs that the earth's climate is lurching towards dangerous tipping points.

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Falklands' wildlife recorded on the book “Britain's Distant Lands”

  

  The author of the bestselling book Britain’s Treasure Islands is releasing a new work, with a section dedicated to the Falkland Islands. Britain’s Distant Lands by Stewart McPherson is a 208 page, landscape-format examination of the wildlife of all the UK Overseas Territories.

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 02:41 UTC

  Global meeting to regulate trade in 18 types of shark and ray; 30 countries back proposals

  

  Dozens of countries will push at a global meeting for regulations on trade in 18 types of shark and ray, with conservationists warning of looming extinction for many species. “Sharks and rays are pretty much unmanaged still in fisheries around the world and are disappearing before our eyes,” Luke Warwick of the Wildlife Conservation Society told reporters in Geneva.

• Saturday, August 17th 2019 - 01:46 UTC

  July 2019, the hottest on record, and Arctic ice shrank to its lowest, NOAA reports

  

  July 2019 temperatures were the hottest ever recorded globally; the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said on Thursday, while satellite data showed polar ice shrank to its lowest levels.

• Friday, August 16th 2019 - 07:26 UTC

  Norway suspends funding to curb Amazon deforestation in Brazil

  

  Norway has suspended funding that was supporting measures to curb deforestation in Brazil after the country blocked the operations of a fund receiving the aid, the Norwegian ministry of climate and environment said on Thursday.

• Thursday, August 15th 2019 - 16:32 UTC

  Chile trying to recover the country's national animal, the shy Huemul deer

  

  Scientists seeking to increase the dwindling population of Chile’s national animal, the shy Huemul deer, have released their first captive-bred pair into the wild in a pivotal step in the drive to save the endangered species from extinction.