Environment

• Tuesday, October 8th 2019 - 09:22 UTC

  Dry spell blamed for the slowest 2019/2020 soybean planting season in Brazil

  

  Brazilian farmers have planted 3.1% of the estimated soybean area for the 2019/2020 crop, agribusiness consultancy AgRural said on Monday, blaming a lack of rain for the slowest start to the season in six years.

• Tuesday, October 8th 2019 - 09:03 UTC

  Oil spill in Brazil has affected 42 cities, environment minister reports

  

  Brazil’s environment minister says more than 100 tons of oil has been spilt along the northeastern coast since the beginning of September. Ricardo Salles said Monday on Twitter that 42 cities have been affected by the spills. He did not say how he reached those figures.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:42 UTC

  Heavy rain helps put out the fires in Bolivia that have ravaged millions of hectares

  

  Heavy rain that has drenched eastern Bolivia's Chiquitania tropical savanna has put out fires that have ravaged millions of hectares in recent months, authorities said on Sunday.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

  Pope Francis opens Amazon synod calling to listen the “cry of Mother Land” and condemning “destructive interests”

  

  Pope Francis opened a synod Sunday to champion the Amazon's poverty-stricken and isolated indigenous communities by condemning the destructive “interests” he blamed for the fires that devastated the region.

• Monday, October 7th 2019 - 09:25 UTC

  Northern hemisphere exposed to record breaking temperatures, reveals Copernicus climate service

  

  Last month was the equal hottest September in history, the European Union's satellite monitoring service announced, the fourth month in a row with near- or record-breaking temperatures. The Copernicus Climate Service said September 2019 was 0.57 degrees Celsius hotter than the historical average - on a par with September 2016.

• Saturday, October 5th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  Commonwealth brainstorming to tackle effects of climate change

  

  The Commonwealth on Friday launched an ideas-sharing network to tackle the effects of climate change through replicable regeneration projects. The 53-country bloc held a two-day brainstorming of indigenous groups, environmentalists, scientists and climate change experts at its headquarters in London.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:58 UTC

  British/Argentina AMR research partnership programs with £5 million of UK aid

  

  The UK government has provided £5 million of aid as part of an Argentine program to manage antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in agriculture and its impact on the environment. The funding will go to five research partnerships between the UK and Argentina.

• Wednesday, October 2nd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Giant 350bn tons of ice calve from the Amery shelf in Antarctica

  

  For nearly 20 years, researchers have closely watched a “loose tooth” of ice dangle from the edge of the Antarctic ice sheet, waiting for it to detach.

• Tuesday, October 1st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazilian soy farmers concerned with new Bayer biotech herbicide, Dicamba

  

  Brazilian farmers are wary of the imminent introduction of a new genetically modified soy seed technology because of the risks associated with dicamba, a herbicide the biotech product is designed to tolerate.

• Monday, September 30th 2019 - 08:18 UTC

  Major oil spill along the Brazilian coastline of eight states, 3.000 kilometers

  

  An oil spill has contaminated beaches and coastline across eight Brazilian states, the country’s environment agency said, although authorities are still stumped as to its origin.