Environment

• Tuesday, August 15th 2017 - 10:45 UTC

  Brazil opens first corn ethanol plant; the country leads in sugarcane ethanol

  

  Brazilian company FS Bioenergia inaugurated a corn ethanol plant, the first in the country, to produce 210 million liters year. The plant was built by a joint venture between the local agro-company Fiagril and US-based Summit Agricultural Group with investments of BRL 450 million (US$ 141.1m), said the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Farming.

• Friday, August 11th 2017 - 20:26 UTC

  Falklands' SAERI lead in Ascension Island tropical marine research

  

  The Journal of Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom (*) has this month released a special issue focussing on Ascension Island’s marine biodiversity. Falklands' based SAERI Director Dr Paul Brickle explained that 20 papers reported on the results of 202 sampling events, comprising a mixture of quantitative SCUBA surveys involving belt transects for fish and mobile fauna and quadrat photography for sessile fauna.

• Friday, August 4th 2017 - 08:22 UTC

  Falkland Islands issues four colorful coins featuring King penguins

  

  The government and treasury of the Falkland Islands have issued (24th July) their latest coin in their hugely popular series of four coins highlighting the wonderful world of penguins—a species of bird found in significant numbers in the South Atlantic.

• Monday, July 31st 2017 - 16:43 UTC

  Rome and Vatican praying for rain: city avoids, temporarily, compulsory water rationing

  

  Rome narrowly avoided water rationing after a deal between the regional government and the city's water company defused a row over drawing water from a drought-affected lake. Taps had been due to run dry for 1.5 million Romans for up to eight hours a day from Monday, and Mayor Virginia Raggi urged the central government to intervene.

• Friday, July 28th 2017 - 06:17 UTC

  Falklands' winds and flight delays could reduce attractiveness of additional services

  

  Too many documented delays to flights might reduce the attractiveness of the Falklands in terms of an airline considering providing an additional service to the Islands, acknowledged Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) Gavin Short this week.

• Monday, July 24th 2017 - 06:49 UTC

  First full-scale floating wind farm begins to take shape off Scotland

  

  The world's first full-scale floating wind farm has started to take shape off the north-east coast of Scotland. The revolutionary technology will allow wind power to be harvested in waters too deep for the current conventional bottom-standing turbines used.

• Wednesday, July 19th 2017 - 22:41 UTC

  UK and London lose ground as preferred destinations for Chinese millionaires

  

  The UK has slipped down the list of preferred destinations for Chinese millionaires considering moving overseas, a report suggests. While the US remains the favorite place to settle, Canada now ranks second pushing Britain into third spot.

• Monday, July 17th 2017 - 05:16 UTC

  Santiago de Chile covered in two inches snow blanket

  

  A rare snowfall in Santiago, Chile, left at least one person dead and caused widespread power outages Sunday. An early winter cold front brought cold temperatures to the southern and central parts of Chile, with Santiago reaching near-freezing temperatures and snow fell throughout the morning and early afternoon.

• Thursday, July 13th 2017 - 08:53 UTC

  Huge iceberg breaks free from the Antarctica Larsen C ice shelf

  

  An iceberg the size of Delaware has broken free from an Antarctic ice shelf, leaving the rest of the shelf vulnerable to collapse and serving as a harbinger of future sea-level rise that could pose a serious threat to coastal communities such as the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, July 10th 2017 - 15:13 UTC

  G20 admits “Trump factor”: climate policy disagreement and blow to multilateral cooperation

  

  Leaders from the world's leading economies broke with U.S. President Donald Trump on climate policy at a G20 summit on Saturday, in a rare public admission of disagreement and blow to multilateral cooperation.