Environment

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 12:57 UTC

  Boeing 747 flies an engine with 50% bio-kerosene mix

  

  A Boeing 747, one of four engines powered by a 50% bio-kerosene mix, circled the Netherlands for an hour on Monday for what airline KLM called the world's first passenger flight using bio-fuel.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 12:45 UTC

  Deep sea abyss swamped with diversity of life and new species

  

  From a translucent giant octopus to a fish bearing barbed fangs, a team of international scientists say they have discovered hundreds of new species living in total darkness at least 5km beneath the surface of the world's oceans.

• Tuesday, November 24th 2009 - 03:02 UTC

  “Flush” of icebergs heading for New Zealand

  

  Over one hundred Antarctic icebergs are moving towards New Zealand in an extraordinary happening that has raised a shipping warning, officials announced Monday. An Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist stated that the bergs, pinpointed by satellites, have floated past the Auckland Islands, and are 280 miles northeast of the Island.

• Saturday, November 21st 2009 - 11:31 UTC

  World largest solar powered trimaran prepares to circumnavigate the world

  

  The world's largest solar-powered trimaran, PlanetSolar, will not have sails. Instead of wind it will rely on the power of the sun to circumnavigate the world in 140 days. That's according to plans sketched out by the financial backers and designers of the triple-hull, 30-metre-long, 15-metre-wide boat under construction at Knierim shipyard in Kiel, Germany.

• Saturday, November 21st 2009 - 10:53 UTC

  Cruise vessels on alert as four icebergs are spotted drifting towards New Zealand

  

  At least four icebergs are bearing down on New Zealand, drifting only a few hundred kilometres off the South Island coast and moving closer by the day.

• Saturday, November 21st 2009 - 08:59 UTC

  Sour anniversary for Botnia pulp mill Argentine pickets

  

  An Argentine company has purchased 500 tons of pulp from the Uruguayan Botnia mill which is at the heart of a serious diplomatic controversy with Argentina that has reached the International Court of The Hague.

• Friday, November 20th 2009 - 05:49 UTC

  Ten-year input for the Atlas of the Patagonian marine ecosystem

  

  The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and BirdLife International have released the first-ever comprehensive atlas of the Patagonian Sea -- a globally important but poorly understood South American marine ecosystem.

• Tuesday, November 17th 2009 - 09:10 UTC

  Latinamerica at the heart of a climate change deal, says Miliband

  

  United Kingdom Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Monday a politically binding deal on climate change will only be struck with the agreement of leading South American countries.

• Monday, November 16th 2009 - 16:14 UTC

  Chavez ready to bombard clouds, with Cuban help, to force rainfall

  

  Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez announced he will begin bombarding not Colombia, but the clouds so as to trigger much needed precipitations to help fill up dams and reservoirs, at record low levels, and which have forced water and power rationing.

• Saturday, November 14th 2009 - 05:41 UTC

  “Spiderman” caught red-handed in Rio do Janeiro airport

  

  Spiderman exists and he was caught at the Brazilian city of Rio do Janeiro. A British tourist was detained in the city’s international airport when he was discovered trying to carry overseas a thousand live spiders in his luggage, according to the local police.