Environment

• Tuesday, May 31st 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  BRICS financing, a life-changer for Amazonia residents

  

  Financing from the BRICS bank has been pivotal in boosting pavement, drainage, basic sanitation and sidewalk construction works in Brazil's Amazonia, it was reported.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:41 UTC

  Bolsonaro going to Pernambuco as death toll from storms keeps rising

  

  Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro Sunday announced he would be traveling first thing Monday to Recife to see for himself the devastation caused by yet another rainstorm in the country's northeast, which has left at least 84 dead, and over 50 missing as figures are updated constantly.

• Monday, May 30th 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  British Antarctic Survey field season has finished; RRS Sir Attenborough returns to UK after seven months 

  

  RRS Sir David Attenborough departed Rothera Research Station for the final time earlier in May and is now making its way back to the UK, marking the end of the BAS Antarctic summer field season.

• Thursday, May 26th 2022 - 22:48 UTC

  Strong quake felt in Peru, Chile and Bolivia

  

  A strong earthquake rocked Chile, Perú, and Bolivia Thursday morning. Authorities in the three countries are still to release detailed reports on the aftermath of the event.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  New Darwin Plus Initiative funding for Falklands' New Island Nature Reserve

  

  Threatened species across the UK Overseas Territories (UKOTs) are set to benefit from £6.4 million in government funding announced on Monday 23 May. Green turtles and the West Indian whistling duck are just some of the species that will be boosted by a share of the Darwin Plus Initiative. Likewise Falklands' New Island Nature Reserve and Peatlands.

• Tuesday, May 24th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Argentina: Water emergency extended, insufficient rainfall in main rivers' basins

  

  Argentina has announced that it will extend the Water Emergency Crisis warning for another six months due to insufficient rainfall in the Paraná, Paraguay, and Iguazú river basins.

• Monday, May 23rd 2022 - 09:28 UTC

  Climate change election: Labor pledges to make Australia “a renewable energy superpower”

  

  Australia's Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said he wants to improve Australia's image abroad after defeating conservative Scott Morrison. Climate change played a pivotal role in the Saturday vote, with voters unhappy with Morrison's government response to deadly fires and floods that hit Australia in recent years and their support of massive coal exports.

• Saturday, May 21st 2022 - 08:39 UTC

  Argentina extends Paraná river water emergency

  

  The Argentine government of President Alberto Fernández Friday announced it was extending the declaration of emergency for another 180 days in the Paraná River area as water levels remained at historically low levels.

• Friday, May 20th 2022 - 09:38 UTC

  Yakecan cyclone hits Uruguay, then moves on to Brazil

  

  Two people have died in Uruguay under circumstances that were not a direct result of Tuesday's subtropical cyclone, Yakecan, but which authorities are still investigating after several houses were destroyed and trees were downed, it was reported.

• Thursday, May 19th 2022 - 20:22 UTC

  Paraná downspout means heavy losses for Argentine exports

  

  A most unusual low water level of the Paraná river has caused losses of nearly US$ 280 million so far in 2022 to Argentine rural producers and exporters, it was reported.