Environment

• Monday, April 29th 2019 - 09:32 UTC

  Australia plans to cull two million feral cats to save native wildlife

  

  Australia's federal government is once again in the spotlight for a years-old plan to cull 2 million feral cats by 2020, this time after details emerged about the reported use of poison-laced sausages to reduce the island's wild cat population. 

• Saturday, April 27th 2019 - 09:43 UTC

  Oceans teeming with viruses, from North to South Pole and down to 4000 meters deep

  

  The oceans contain almost 200,000 different viral populations, according to the latest count. Marine viruses were found from the surface down to 4,000m deep and from the North to the South Pole. Though most are harmless to humans, they can infect marine life, including whales and crustaceans.

• Saturday, April 27th 2019 - 08:52 UTC

  Tompkins Foundation donates Chile a million acres for two newly created national parks

  

  The foundation created by the late creator of U.S. clothing brands Esprit and The North Face turned over 407,000 hectares (1 million acres) of forest, mountain, lakes and glaciers in Patagonia to the government of Chile on Friday, the Tompkins Conservation Foundation said.

• Friday, April 26th 2019 - 09:37 UTC

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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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

  

  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.