Environment

• Monday, February 12th 2024 - 09:57 UTC

  Oil leak off Trinidad and Tobago causes national environmental emergency

  

  An oil leak from an unflagged overturned ship named Gulfstream off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago has led Prime Minister Keith Rowley to declare Sunday a national emergency because the situation along some 15 km of coastline in Tobago is “not under control.” The mystery vessel capsized Wednesday off the coast of the Cove Eco-Industrial Park in southern Tobago, and currents have dragged the boat shoreward.

• Thursday, February 8th 2024 - 05:17 UTC

  HMS Protector removes waste from Brabant Island next to Antarctica Peninsula

  

  Royal Navy sailors have helped preserve the natural beauty of Antarctica by removing three tons of waste from an island. Ice patrol HMS Protector returned to Brabant Island – on the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula – for the first time since 2017 to continue work to remove abandoned equipment from an expedition in the 1980s.

• Tuesday, February 6th 2024 - 11:04 UTC

  Argentina: Nahuel Huapi National Park joins list of places affected by wildlfires

  

  While wildfires in Argentina's Los Alerces National Park in the province of Chubut are far from being under control and the situation in Chile keeps getting worse by the hour, a new fire has been reported in the Nahuel Huapi National Park covering the skiing resort of Bariloche with smoke.

• Monday, February 5th 2024 - 11:01 UTC

  Chile: Multiple wildfires leave 112 dead; could be more, Boric warns

  

  According to the latest bulletin from Chilean authorities Sunday, at least 112 people had been killed as wildfires kept multiplying nationwide during the weekend, particularly in the Valparaiso region. Some 40,000 people have been left homeless or displaced, it was also reported.

• Saturday, February 3rd 2024 - 10:47 UTC

  Heat wave grips Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil

  

  Media reports all across the Southern Cone Friday underlined the heat wave affecting Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay with temperatures reaching 48 degrees Celsius and forecast to remain around or above 40 degrees for several days.

• Saturday, February 3rd 2024 - 10:28 UTC

  At least 10 killed in simultaneous wildfires across Chile

  

  At least ten people were reported Friday to have died in Chile as forest firest gripped the Valparaíso area, where President Gabriel Boric Font decreed a state of emergency.

• Thursday, February 1st 2024 - 23:44 UTC

  Red Sea attacks force vessel with 16,000 live sheep and cattle to return to Australia

  

  A ship carrying 16,000 sheep and cattle to Israel and that had been stranded off the coast of Australia in extreme heat conditions has returned to a Perth port. MV Bahijah abandoned its journey through the Red Sea - where Houthi fighters in Yemen have been attacking ships - leaving the animals stuck on board for weeks.

• Wednesday, January 31st 2024 - 11:07 UTC

  Tales from the Southern Seas: A Uruguayan in the Falklands

  

  Bettina Alberti Arriaga, who was the student competition winner from Uruguay, has published an article about her visit to the Falkland Islands.

• Tuesday, January 30th 2024 - 10:50 UTC

  Effects on climate change by disturbing the seabed, BAS and Norway scientists

  

  A study published this month in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science reveals that disturbing the seabed, through activities such as trawling, could increase the scale and speed of climate change.

• Tuesday, January 30th 2024 - 10:43 UTC

  UK Commons committee has an “air tour” of South Georgia island and advancing icebergs

  

  The House of Commons Environmental Audit Sub-Committee on Polar Research, EAC, visiting the Falkland Islands on their way to Antarctica in December enjoyed an ”air tour'' of South Georgia island.