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Montevideo, November 26th 2024 - 08:32 UTC

Environment

  • Friday, April 26th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

    Brazilian ministry asks for an end to the list of endangered aquatic species

    The list includes many commercially valuable species and, as conservation organization Oceana described, “sparked discord” among conservationists

    Brazil's agriculture minister has asked the minister of the environment to suspend the country's list of threatened and endangered aquatic species. “It's hurting fishermen”, Jorge Seif Júnior argued and will have a significant negative impact on the fishing economy.

  • Friday, April 26th 2019 - 06:32 UTC

    HMS Protector returns to Plymouth for first time in four years

    HMS Protector spent a lot of her time in Antarctica supporting scientists and surveying the channels and waterways around the frozen continent.

    The ship has spent time in Antarctica supporting scientists and surveying the channels and waterways. HMS Protector has returned to Plymouth for the first time in four years. The ship spent a lot of her time in Antarctica supporting scientists and surveying the channels and waterways around the frozen continent.

  • Friday, April 26th 2019 - 06:16 UTC

    Meet the Falkland Islands penguins

    King Penguins at Volunteer Point - Falkland Islands (Pic D.Pettersson)

    By Chloe May - On 25 April every year, people around the world celebrate World Penguin Day - a day to raise awareness of the plight these flightless birds are currently facing. This takes place at the same time as the annual northern migration of Antarctica’s Adelie penguins and was created as a way for researchers at an American research centre on Ross Island to pass time and raise awareness.

  • Thursday, April 25th 2019 - 10:38 UTC

    World Penguin Day: raise awareness with the hashtag #WorldPenguinDay

    According to the State of Antarctic Penguins Report 2017, there is estimated to be 12 million penguins

    World Penguin Day is observed annually on April 25 recognizing the aquatic birds. In the world, there are 17 species of penguins with Southern hemisphere as their natural habitat. April 25 was chosen as World Penguin Day as it marks the date when Adelie penguins begin their migration northward toward Antartica.

  • Thursday, April 25th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

    Thousands of emperor penguin chicks died in 2016 destroyed by severe weather, reports a BAS team

    It is possible even from 800km up to spot the animals' excrement, or guano, on the white ice and then to estimate the likely size of any gathering.

    Thousands of emperor penguin chicks drowned when the sea-ice on which they were being raised was destroyed in severe weather. The catastrophe occurred in 2016 in Antarctica's Weddell Sea. Scientists say the colony at the edge of the Brunt Ice Shelf has collapsed with adult birds showing no sign of trying to re-establish the population.

  • Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 09:04 UTC

    Climate change protestors clear London's busiest streets: 1.065 arrested

    Extinction Rebellion took over the heart of London in a bid to focus global attention on rising temperatures and sea levels caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

    Some of London's busiest streets re-opened Monday for the first time in a week as climate change protesters regrouped and plotted a new course after police made more than 1,000 arrests. The so-called Extinction Rebellion took over the heart of the British capital in a bid to focus global attention on rising temperatures and sea levels caused by greenhouse gas emissions.

  • Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 08:38 UTC

    “Cheeky” gorillas share a selfie with park rangers that rescued them as babies

    One is seen posing with her side profile, while the other leans slightly forward from behind a ranger, seemingly to try get into the frame. 

    A pair of “cheeky” gorillas in a national park at the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been photographed posing for a selfie with park rangers who helped to rescue them as babies. 

  • Tuesday, April 23rd 2019 - 08:32 UTC

    UK four nations with hottest Easter Monday on record, Met Office says

    Temperatures hit 24.2C (75.6F) in Kinlochewe in the Highlands, 23.6C (74.4F) in Cardiff and 21.4C (70.5F) in Armagh.

    It has been the hottest Easter Monday on record in all four nations of the UK, the Met Office has said. England reached the highest temperature with 25C (77F) recorded at Heathrow, Northolt and Wisley.

  • Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 09:11 UTC

    What is Earth Day, and what is it meant to accomplish?

    Earth Day is now a global event each year, and more than 1 billion people in 192 countries now take part in what is the largest civic-focused day of action in the world

    On April 22, 1970, millions of people took to the streets to protest the negative impacts of 150 years of industrial development.

  • Monday, April 22nd 2019 - 09:10 UTC

    Earth Day 2019: Protect our Species

    We must work together to protect endangered and threatened species: bees, coral, elephants, fgiraffes, insects, whales and more.

    “In nature, nothing exists alone.” — Rachel Carson, 1962<br />
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    Nature’s gifts to our planet are the millions of species that we know and love, and many more that remain to be discovered. Unfortunately, human beings have irrevocably upset the balance of nature and, as a result, the world is facing the greatest rate of extinction since we lost the dinosaurs more than 60 million years ago. But unlike the fate of the dinosaurs, the rapid extinction of species in our world today is the result of human activity.