Environment

• Wednesday, July 11th 2018 - 06:55 UTC

  Britain's new polar research ship scheduled to hit the water next Saturday

  

  The assembled hull of Britain's new polar research vessel, RRS Sir David Attenborough is now standing on the slipway of the Cammell Laird yard in Birkenhead, awaiting launch day. Weather and tide permitting, she should slide into the River Mersey on Saturday, July 14th.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2018 - 07:29 UTC

  Forests and trees are key for a sustainable future

  

  ROME - Time is running out for the world's forests, whose total area is shrinking by the day, warns a new FAO report urging governments to foster an all-inclusive approach to benefit both trees and those who rely on them.

• Monday, July 9th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

  Chinese home insulation blamed for gas emissions damaging the ozone layer

  

  Cut-price Chinese home insulation is being blamed for a massive rise in emissions of a gas, highly damaging to the Earth's protective ozone layer. The Environmental Investigations Agency (EIA) found widespread use of CFC-11 in China, even though the chemical was fully banned back in 2010.

• Monday, July 9th 2018 - 08:11 UTC

  Rhino poachers end up eaten by a pride of lions in South African game reserve

  

  A shoe is all that is left of one of the poachers who broke into a South African game reserve to hunt rhinos, and ended up eaten by a pride of lions. At least three hunters are believed to have been devoured by the predators at the Sibuya Game Reserve near Kenton-on-Sea in Eastern Province, South Africa, earlier this week.

• Friday, June 29th 2018 - 05:51 UTC

  Falkland Islands Canadian tracking experience with Gentoo penguins

  

  Data sent from penguins to space and back to University of British Columbia could help researchers determine why the species’ breeding population fluctuates so dramatically. UBC researchers visited the South Atlantic in April to attach small transmitters to the backs of 66 Gentoo penguins from two colonies in the Falkland Islands

• Friday, June 29th 2018 - 05:25 UTC

  “An unforgettable year for soybeans in Argentina”, yields and harvested area at its lowest

  

  Argentine soy yields and harvesting area have been chopped by drought to their lowest levels since the 2008/09 season, analysts said on Thursday, citing the effect of a four-month dry spell that suddenly gave way to floods in April.

• Saturday, June 23rd 2018 - 09:50 UTC

  Falklands recommendations during snowy weather

  

  With the onset of snow and ice this week, the Falkland Islands Government would like to rehearse some of the sensible precautions that should be taken to keep safe during this bout of winter weather

• Saturday, June 23rd 2018 - 08:54 UTC

  Seabirds starving to death because of plastic pollution reveals documentary

  

  New footage of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on wildlife has been captured by a BBC team. Seabirds are starving to death on the remote Lord Howe Island, a crew filming for the BBC One documentary Drowning in Plastic has revealed. Their stomachs were so full of plastic there was no room for food.

• Saturday, June 16th 2018 - 10:24 UTC

  Falklands government implements Environmental studies budget

  

  The Falkland Islands are very serious and committed to protecting its unique environment, and besides strict measures to impede invasive species it has also spent millions of pounds in bio-security and environmental research.

• Thursday, June 14th 2018 - 07:24 UTC

  Antarctica ice sheet melting faster than expected, adding 0.6mm to sea level every year

  

  The Antarctic ice sheet has lost more than 2,500 billion tons of ice in the past 25 years and nearly half of that has happened since 2012. An international team of polar scientists found that melting in Antarctica has jumped sharply from an average of 76 billion tons per year prior to 2012, to around 219 billion tones each year between 2012 and 2017.