Environment

• Friday, March 22nd 2013 - 06:43 UTC

  Chilean experts investigate death of millions of dead prawns washed to the coast

  

  Chilean experts and prosecutors are investigating the appearance of millions of dead prawns that washed up on a beach in southern Chile this week carpeting a three-kilometre strand in red.

• Tuesday, March 19th 2013 - 13:22 UTC

  South Georgia completes first phase of reindeer eradication: 1.900 animals

  

  The Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSCSSI) has announced the completion of the first phase of the eradication of reindeer from the island of South Georgia.

• Friday, March 15th 2013 - 06:45 UTC

  World’s largest telescope at a cost of a billion Euros will be built in Chilean Andes

  

  The Chilean Andes will be the location for the world’s largest telescope: the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), costing more than €1bn, which will capture the universe's earliest moments.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2013 - 14:52 UTC

  Britain and Argentina share stringent environmental duties in Antarctica

  

  Divers from Royal Navy ice patrol ship HMS Protector have been exploring beneath the waves of the Antarctic to ensure stringent environmental guidelines are being followed in the region. In the process the diving team on board HMS Protector has been busy capturing rare underwater footage of the Antarctic.

• Monday, March 11th 2013 - 08:04 UTC

  Falklands and South Atlantic environment and geography information management system

  

  The South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute (SAERI) announced a new program: the South Atlantic Information Management System and GIS Centre, which officially brings together the UK South Atlantic Overseas Territories in SAERI’s South Atlantic scope that ranges from the equator down to the ice. The Centre is funded by the FCO via the UK’s Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

• Thursday, March 7th 2013 - 06:47 UTC

  Chilean court halts construction of huge power plant for the copper industry

  

  A court in Chile has halted the construction of a huge power plant being built by a Spanish company, after fishermen charged that the massive project would harm the environment and ruin their livelihood.

• Thursday, March 7th 2013 - 01:11 UTC

  French company investing 205m dollars in two wind farms with 35 turbines

  

  French Akuo Energy has broken ground at two maiden wind farm developments in Uruguay totalling 92MW, as it prepares to expand its footprint across Latin America.

• Wednesday, March 6th 2013 - 20:00 UTC

  Scientists solve mystery of the extinct Falkland Islands wolf

  

  It was an animal that puzzled Charles Darwin, who wondered how on Earth a large mammal that looked a bit like a wolf and a bit like a fox had arrived on barren islands nearly 500 kilometres from the mainland. Now, say biologists, the mystery of the now-extinct Falkland Islands wolf may have been resolved.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 05:48 UTC

  Stunning images of Red Sea deep under grand-canyon discovered by HMS Enterprise

  

  The survey ship 'HMS Enterprise' nets stunning images of a Grand Canyon-style ocean floor hidden deep under the Red Sea. Discovering the 250 metre deep canyon after leaving the Egyptian port of Safaga the ship used her sophisticated EM1002 Multibeam echo sounder to create the 3D images, allowing the ocean floor to be seen for the first time.

• Thursday, February 28th 2013 - 05:33 UTC

  Sweden sponsoring tax on meat consumption to help reduce greenhouse gases

  

  In order to reduce greenhouse gases and to sustain the environment Swedish agricultural authorities are suggesting a tax to tame the appetite for meat. The more meat is consumed the more feed is needed to meet this demand, and with the extensive drought the occurred in the US and feed shortages elsewhere in the world. Could this be a viable solution?