Environment

• Friday, September 8th 2017 - 08:42 UTC

  Chile and Argentina working on an energy, gas and power, swap deal

  

  Chile expects to close an energy swap deal with Argentina in the days ahead, Chilean Energy Minister Andres Rebolledo said in an interview Thursday. The neighboring nations are also negotiating the locations for five additional transmission line interconnection points, with an agreement expected as early as January, the minister revealed.

• Thursday, September 7th 2017 - 07:37 UTC

  Expo-Prado agro-industrial show opens in Montevideo

  

  Uruguay's main agricultural, industrial and commercial show, Expo/Prado 2017 opened in Montevideo on Wednesday. The annual event, which this year is international, (it rotates with Argentina's Palermo show) is an opportunity for city people to admire the best cattle, sheep, horses and hogs of the region, and for the farmers a chance to see how much technology has advanced in the last twelve months.

• Friday, September 1st 2017 - 10:14 UTC

  Harvey killed at least 30 and losses in Texas could reach US$ 100bn; half a million claiming federal assistance

  

  The costs of the deadly storm in Texas and the Gulf of Mexico continued to mount on Thursday, with some analysts estimating losses that approach US$100bn. Harvey has killed more than 30 people and destroyed thousands of homes. Many firms in the region, a major transport hub that is a home to the oil and gas industry, don't know when they will resume normal operations.

• Wednesday, August 30th 2017 - 08:07 UTC

  Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd admits defeat: “we can't match Japan's military surveillance technology”

  

  The anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has announced it will not intercept Japanese vessels in the Southern Ocean this season. The group's ships have confronted Japanese vessels off Antarctica each year since 2005.

• Monday, August 28th 2017 - 08:30 UTC

  Famous faces and new endemic Falklands species revealed at Birdfair

  

  Famous names including Sir David Attenborough, Bill Oddie, Chris Packham, Simon King and Nigel Marvin were all attendees of Birdfair where Falklands organizations annually promote the wealth of wildlife around the Islands.

• Friday, August 18th 2017 - 09:24 UTC

  Falklands: Outwitting canny fur seals feasting on abundant Loligo

  

  Falkland Islands Senior Fisheries Scientist Dr Alexander Arkhipkin explains the habits of fur seals and the efforts undertaken to reduce by-catch in the Loligo fishery. Stocks of Falkland calamari (Loligo) are very prolific this year.

• 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.