Environment

• Wednesday, October 17th 2018 - 07:44 UTC

  UK Antarctic Heritage Trust announces a new Port Lockroy team for 2018/19

  

  The United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust (UKAHT) is delighted to reveal details of the quintet who will live and work at Port Lockroy on a remote island off the Antarctic Peninsula during the 2018/19 Austral Antarctic summer (November – March).

• Monday, October 15th 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  East Falkland, among most plastic contaminated shores in South Atlantic Islands

  

  The amount of plastic washing up onto the shores of remote South Atlantic islands is ten times greater than it was a decade ago, according to new research published in the journal Current Biology. Scientists investigating plastics in seas surrounding the remote British Overseas Territories, including East Falkland, discovered they are invading these unique biologically-rich regions. This includes areas that are established or proposed Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

• Friday, October 12th 2018 - 22:06 UTC

  Carcigenous BA underground trains to be scrapped

  

  Used underground trains purchased from Spain for Buenos Aires' B Line in 2011 are now to be scrapped after finding they were made of an alloy containing carcigenous asbestos.

• Thursday, October 11th 2018 - 08:58 UTC

  Hurricane Michael 155mph (250km/h) winds flood beach towns in Florida and moves to Georgia

  

  The most powerful hurricane ever to hit the north-west state of Florida has flooded beach towns, submerging homes and snapping trees like twigs. Hurricane Michael made landfall on Wednesday afternoon as a category three storm with 250km/h winds in the state's Panhandle region. Two people have been reported killed in Florida.

• Monday, October 8th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Quake rattles impoverished Haiti, at least 14 dead and extensive damage

  

  A magnitude 5.2 aftershock struck Haiti on Sunday, even as survivors of the previous day’s temblor were sifting through the rubble of their cinder block homes. The death toll stood at 12, with fears it could rise. The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the aftershock was located 15.8 kilometers north-northwest of Port-de-Paix, the city hard hit by Saturday night’s 5.9 magnitude earthquake. Sunday’s aftershock had a depth of 10 kilometers.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 09:12 UTC

  NASA scientists solve mysteries of the Earth's rotation wobbling

  

  Using satellite data on how water moves around Earth, NASA scientists have solved two mysteries about wobbles in the planet's rotation - one new and one more than a century old. The research may help improve our knowledge of past and future climate.

• Monday, October 1st 2018 - 08:29 UTC

  Quake and tsunami hit Indonesia searching for survivors and burying its dead

  

  Mass graves were being readied for hundreds of victims of an Indonesian quake and tsunami on Monday as authorities battled to stave off disease and reach desperate people still trapped under shattered buildings. The death toll nearly doubled to 832 on Sunday but was expected to rise further after a disaster that has left the island of Sulawesi reeling.

• Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  A Swede takes over as Daimler CEO and to grapple with diesel emissions cheating

  

  Daimler, the German car maker that owns Mercedes-Benz, will be run by a non-German for the first time next year. Dieter Zetsche, 65, will be replaced by Ola Kaellenius, a 49-year-old Swede, as chief executive in a succession plan announced on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, September 25th 2018 - 08:24 UTC

  Green mosses of East Antarctica are succumbing to climate change, says scientific paper

  

  Emerging from the ice for a brief growing season every Antarctic summer, the lush green mosses of East Antarctica are finally succumbing to climate change. That is according to a study of the small, ancient and hardy plants - carried out over more than a decade.

• Saturday, September 22nd 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina ready to launch a satellite to monitor natural disasters and soil moisture

  

  Argentina is launching a new microwave imaging satellite to monitor natural disasters and soil moisture, in a long-term bid to bolster the farm sector, an industry that has historically been the backbone of the country’s economy.