Environment

• Monday, July 29th 2024 - 08:06 UTC

  Falklands, controversy with Navitas oil company Environmental Impact Statement

  

  Falklands Conservation has published initial views on the Navitas oil company Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and encourages people to comment on the report. This is of course welcome but their statement that essential information on key animal groups is missing, is misleading. It states that ‘the presented seabird data is more than 20 years old’.

• Saturday, July 27th 2024 - 07:41 UTC

  Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses Park a World Heritage Site, UNESCO rules

  

  The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Friday declared Brazil's Lençóis Maranhenses National Park a World Natural Heritage Site, making it the South American country's eighth such place, Agencia Brasil reported. The announcement was made during the UNESCO World Heritage Committee session in New Delhi, India. The application dossier had been submitted in 2018.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2024 - 18:43 UTC

  IMF and IDB to boost Paraguay's sustainable development initiatives

  

  The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced this week in Asunción an increase in cooperation with Latin American and Caribbean countries regarding environmental initiatives and sustainable development.

• Tuesday, July 23rd 2024 - 06:38 UTC

  Whale environmentalist and crew arrested in Greenland on Japanese warrant

  

  The Greenland police reported it had arrested environmental activist Paul Watson when his ship docked in Nuuk under an international warrant issued by Japan. The 73-year-old Canadian-American citizen has been known for engaging in direct action tactics such as confrontations with whaling ships out at sea.

• Monday, July 22nd 2024 - 21:02 UTC

  Brazilian flying taxi model launched

  

  A subsidiary of Brazilian aircraft manufacturers Embraer launched this weekend in Gavião Peixoto, in the State of São Paulo, the full-scale prototype of the new flying taxi, which was introduced during the 45th edition of the Farnborough Airshow in England. According to Eve, the company behind this development, the eVTOL model represents a leap in urban aerial mobility which will transform cityscapes by 2026.

• Monday, July 22nd 2024 - 19:54 UTC

  Paraguay's first 30 electric buses to be delivered this year

  

  The first 30 electric buses of Asunción's public network will be operational before the end of 2024, Deputy Transport Minister Emiliano Fernández announced Monday after a meeting with experts from the Taiwanese company building the vehicles. President Santiago Peña has pledged that 1,000 of these units would become available shortly.

• Saturday, July 20th 2024 - 12:00 UTC

  Brazilian researchers discover new shrimp species

  

  Brazilian scientists from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) have detected a new species of buffalo shrimp which they named Alpheus Coralvivo after the Living Coral Project, it was reported.

• Wednesday, July 17th 2024 - 07:45 UTC

  Brazil has 96% of Pantanal fires under control

  

  Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva said Tuesday that at least 96% of the fires in the Pantanal, Pantanal, a natural region encompassing the world's largest tropical wetland area and the world's largest flooded grasslands, had been put out or were under control, Agencia Brasil reported. She made the announcement alongside fellow Ministers Simone Tebet (Budget and Planning) and Waldez Góes (Integration and Regional Development) in Corumbá, in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul.

• Saturday, July 13th 2024 - 09:17 UTC

  Huge pod of pilot whales stranded, and die in island off Orkney archipelago

  

  Seventy-seven long-finned pilot whales washed ashore on Thursday on Sanday island, a part of the Orkney archipelago off Scotland. Sixty-five of them were already dead, the British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) service said, and while twelve still alive, they were in too poor a condition to recover.

• Friday, July 12th 2024 - 09:24 UTC

  Paraná Waterway crisis expected to be sorted out this year

  

  An extension of the Paraná-Paraguay Waterway Management to Jan de Nul has been reported to be under consideration as the need for further dredging plays a compelling role.