Environment

• 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.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 09:18 UTC

  RFA Mount Bay in the Caribbean, ahead of tropical storm Isaac

  

  The United Kingdom has deployed a team of specialists to the Caribbean to help mitigate the impact of impending storms threatening British Overseas territories. According to Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson, 87 engineers, medics, maritime experts and other specialists have joined the regular crew of RFA Mounts Bay, which is the mobile hub of the British relief effort.

• Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:44 UTC

  UK/Argentina hold antimicrobial resistance scientific seminar in Buenos Aires

  

  Scientists from different British universities, Argentine researchers and representatives of the organizing agencies took part this week in Buenos Aires in a seminar organized jointly by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) from the UK, and the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) of Argentina.

• Friday, September 14th 2018 - 08:28 UTC

  Support for Brazilian proposal to safeguard whales in perpetuity: Japan and allies furious

  

  Tempers flared at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) on Thursday as it voted to back a Brazilian proposal which would safeguard whales in perpetuity, after a bitter debate. The biennial meeting of the 89-nation body passed the host country's “Florianopolis Declaration” which sees whaling as no longer being a necessary economic activity.

• Thursday, September 13th 2018 - 06:20 UTC

  “Extremely dangerous major” hurricane Florence advancing on the Carolinas

  

  Hurricane Florence, one of the strongest storms to threaten the East Coast of the United States in decades, continued to swirl in the Atlantic on Wednesday night on a path that is taking it dangerously closer to the Carolinas. Meanwhile, another storm system in the Atlantic gained strength on Wednesday and was named subtropical Storm Joyce.