Environment

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 06:34 UTC

  Storm death toll of recently sheared sheep in Uruguay climbs to 54.200, not counting lambs

  

  The recent rain, wind and cold storm that severely punished Uruguayan farmers last week caused the death of 54.200 adult sheep. The sum from a survey conducted by the Uruguayan Wool Secretariat, SUL, almost doubles the original 30.000 estimate and does not include the recently born lambs.

• Wednesday, September 25th 2013 - 07:46 UTC

  UK at Amazon biodiversity, sustainability and innovation seminar in Brazil

  

  The year 2013 is a special one for researches in the northern region of Brazil: the Ferreira Penna Scientific Station, research base of the Emílio Goeldi museum and research unit of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, completes 20 years of existence.

• Thursday, September 19th 2013 - 07:55 UTC

  Three-day pouring rain and wind storm kills over 30.000 sheep in Uruguay

  

  Thousands of sheep dead, 1.500 people evacuated, blown roofs, flooded roads and farm land was the result of three days non-stop of pouring rainfall and strong winds that punished Uruguay beginning last Friday.

• Wednesday, September 18th 2013 - 19:43 UTC

  Argentina’s YPF main partner, Chevron, blasted by Correa who is expected in Buenos Aires

  

  A couple of days before Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa is set to arrive in Argentina he sank his right hand into the bushes of the Ecuadorean Amazon and then showed it to the dozens of journalists summoned for the demonstration: it was covered in oil.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 06:54 UTC

  UN describes the Montreal Protocol on ozone “a remarkable success story”

  

  United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called Monday on the international community to continue efforts that will preserve the world’s ozone layer and protect the environment. In his message for the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, Mr. Ban pointed to the Montreal Protocol as an example of how Member States are capable to work for the common good.

• Tuesday, September 17th 2013 - 06:34 UTC

  Italian engineers manage to set Costa Concordia upright 20 months after grounding

  

  Engineers in Italy have succeeded in setting the cruise ship Costa Concordia upright, 20 months after it ran aground off the island of Giglio. They said that the unprecedented salvage effort ”reached degree zero (vertical), which was our target”.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 22:05 UTC

  Chile’s latest scientific vessel on a hake spawning research cruise in the extreme south

  

  Chile latest fisheries scientific research vessel ‘Cabo de Hornos’ has completed a month long cruise in the southern coast of the country collecting information on three different type of hake spawning, something which hadn’t been done since at least 1996, according to the country’s fisheries officials.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 22:02 UTC

  Vigo starts bio-bank to store commercial fisheries marine parasite samples

  

  The Marine Research Institute from Vigo, Spain has launched the first world bio-bank which collects, stores and will distribute samples of marine parasites and associated bio-molecules such as the anisakis, in the framework of the EU ‘Parasite’ project to assess their sanitary and commercial impact on the food chain and validation of tools to mitigate effects.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 21:57 UTC

  Spanish scientists discover new marine worm that feeds on whale bones

  

  Spanish scientists from the University of Barcelona and the Oceanographic Institute have discovered in Antarctica a new species of worm, a marine invertebrate which feeds on whale bones. The discovery is in the framework of the Actiquim-II project and the new species was baptized “Osedax deceptionensis”.

• Monday, September 16th 2013 - 01:26 UTC

  Colombia/Nicaragua maritime dispute reignites, despite International Court ruling

  

  President Juan Manuel Santos presented before Colombia’s constitutional court a demand against the Pact of Bogotá arguing that a recent ruling from the International Court of Justice on a maritime dispute with Nicaragua does not comply with the Colombian constitution.