Environment

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  Devils of the deep: How jumbo squids survive freezing cold, oxygen-deprived waters

  

  By Hanane Hadj-Moussa and Kenneth B Storey, Carleton University, Canada – Humans are a picky species. We are happiest in a near-constant environment and experience severe and often fatal injuries if our core temperature falls below 25 C or if the oxygen content of the air drops below 10%. Many other species, however, live in almost constant change.

• Wednesday, September 9th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Argentina chosen seat of UN's Ocean Specialized Center for the region

  

  Argentina was chosen as the seat of a new UNSECO Ocean Sciences Specialized Center, in the framework of OTGA, Ocean Teacher Global Academy, from the International Oceanographic Commission, ahead of the Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development Decade.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2020 - 09:07 UTC

  Mega project in Mexico cancelled and turned into a giant nature park next to an ancient lake

  

  Bright green stalks of weeds are sprouting from the ground where planes were supposed to take off at a new Mexico City airport as officials let nature take over in their bid to transform the marshy swath of an ancient lake into a giant park.

• Monday, September 7th 2020 - 09:51 UTC

  NASA pictures show the world's largest wetland lost to fires sweeping across Brazil

  

  A record amount of the world's largest tropical wetland has been lost to the fires sweeping Brazil this year, scientists said, devastating a delicate ecosystem that is one of the most biologically diverse habitats on the planet.

• Saturday, September 5th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  Bolsonaro slams environmental NGOs who accuse him “of setting fire to the Amazon”

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has slammed environmental NGOs as a 'cancer' and denounced what he said was an international conspiracy accusing him of being responsible for devastating Amazon wildfires.

• Friday, September 4th 2020 - 09:08 UTC

  Arctic Circle wildfires carbon pollution reaches record levels, EU Earth program

  

  This year's Arctic Circle wildfires, still ablaze, have already surpassed the record set in 2019 for CO2 emissions, adding to the carbon pollution humanity needs to curtail, the European Union's Earth observation program said on Thursday.

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2020 - 09:43 UTC

  Argentina/China accord to produce nine million tons of pork delayed by environmentalists

  

  The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between China and Argentina scheduled for this week has been delayed until November, the Argentine foreign ministry announced officially on Tuesday. The delay will enable to add an “article referred to the protection of the environment, natural resources, and bio-security”, added the release.

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2020 - 08:38 UTC

  Falklands and St Helena will be participating in the Virtual Island Summit

  

  St Helena and the Falkland Islands will be joining over 100 islands in the Virtual Island Summit. The Summit (https://www.islandinnovation.co/summit/) is a free online event aimed at connecting islands across the globe to share common experiences through a digital platform.

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  Pope Francis urges nations to fight global warming: “creation is groaning”

  

  Pope Francis on Tuesday urged nations to fight global warming according to the 2015 Paris climate accord, weighing in on issues that figure in the US presidential race. Modern society had pushed the planet beyond its limits and the time to fix a climate emergency was running out, he said.

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2020 - 08:00 UTC

  South Georgia launches Macaroni penguin 50 pence coin

  

  South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands Government have announced the launching of the penultimate 50 pence coin in the penguin series, which features the macaroni penguin.