Environment

Thursday, October 3rd 2013 - 11:03 UTC
Giant squid washes ashore in the Cantabrian Sea; conservation plans

The Cantabrian Maritime Museum (MMC) in the north of Spain has concluded the conditioning for its conservation of a giant squid that was found washed ashore in a beach of Asturias and which was catalogued as an adult female of the cephalopod “Architeuthis Dux” specie weighing 180 kilos and with a total length of eight metres.
Thursday, October 3rd 2013 - 07:09 UTC
Argentina will challenge Uruguay’s decision to expand pulp mill production at The Hague Court of Justice

Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman has confirmed that Argentina will go before the international court of justice at The Hague over the decision of Uruguayan president José Mujica, who on Wednesday authorised increased production at the UPM (ex-Botnia) paper plant.
Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 20:40 UTC
Argentina’s squid fisheries policy “inconsistent and unsustainable” says expert

Argentina’s latest government’s decisions on squid fishing show that the country’s fisheries policy is “inconsistent and unsustainable,” according to the president of Assistance Food Argentina SA and director of Assistance Food America Inc., Dr. Cesar Augusto Lerena.
Tuesday, October 1st 2013 - 06:46 UTC
Cristina Fernandez and Mujica in a prudent silence over the pulp mill controversy

Argentine President Cristina Fernández met on Monday with her Uruguayan counterpart José Mujica after the pair inaugurated a new vessel belonging to the ferry company Buquebús, (which joins Montevideo with Buenos Aires), in order to discuss matters related to the controversial UPM pulp plant formerly known as Botnia.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 22:06 UTC
Barrick Gold Pascua-Lama project again running after court ruling

Chile's Supreme Court confirmed a freeze on Barrick Gold Corp's suspended Pascua-Lama gold mine but the Toronto-based miner escaped having the project's environmental permit revoked. The ruling dispels a significant uncertainty surrounding the controversial project, which now essentially has to complete a water management system issued by the environmental regulator to likely be re-activated.
Monday, September 30th 2013 - 21:40 UTC
The Shale Boom, Just Getting Started: Interview with Tyler Cowen

Thanks to the shale boom, markets already perceive the trade balance optimizing, energy prices are cheaper than they would otherwise be and we've even cut carbon emissions. And we are only getting started, according Tyler Cowen, New York Times best-selling author and one of the most influential economists of the decade.
Friday, September 27th 2013 - 22:01 UTC
Mujica inclined to support UPM pulp production expansion but conditioned to environment improvements

Uruguay’s president Jose Mujica anticipated that his intention is to authorize the UPM pulp mill to expand production, as the Finnish company had requested, but conditioned to certain additional environmental measures, which will not be made public until talks with Argentine president Cristina Fernandez on Monday.
Friday, September 27th 2013 - 21:33 UTC
South Georgia krill could suffer most global warming according to BAS

Modelling of the effects of sea temperature rises in the Southern Oceans indicates that krill in the seas around South Georgia may be the hardest hit of the region by the effects of global warming, reports the August edition of the South Georgia Newsletter.
Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 21:19 UTC
FAO believes livestock greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced as much as 30%

Wider use of available best practices and technologies could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the livestock sector by as much as 30%, according to a new study released on Thursday by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO.
Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 21:04 UTC
A sugar rush that could fuel the economy

By R. Viswanathan (*) - India should take its cue from Brazil and invest in ethanol as a viable commercial substitute for costly petrol.