Environment

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 02:34 UTC

  South America cruise industry “must work together and rein in costs”

  

  South America's cruise industry has been growing fast and holds vast potential, but the region must work together to tackle issues, create demand and rein in costs, said speakers at the Seatrade South America Cruise Convention in Buenos Aires.

• Thursday, September 13th 2012 - 01:49 UTC

  Arctic conquest: Russia building the world’s biggest nuclear powered icebreaker

  

  Russia's plans to build the world's biggest nuclear-powered icebreaker could attract more trade to the country, says a leading UK analyst. The new ship is meant to be more efficient at breaking ice and able to navigate in deep Arctic waters as well as shallow Siberian rivers.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 02:09 UTC

  Four different “ecotypes” of killer whales spotted in Falklands waters

  

  To many, the killer whale, also known as orca, is considered the panda of the sea (a not-so-cuddly black and white ocean beast). Whale scientists have been particularly busy over the last 20 years studying the killer whale and we now know a whole lot about this species or, as it turns out, possibly several species.

• Wednesday, September 12th 2012 - 02:01 UTC

  Wind could meet world power demand by 2013, say Stanford researchers

  

  By Andrew Myers (*) Adapting a sophisticated climate model, researchers show that there is plenty of wind available to supply half to several times the world's total energy needs within the next two decades.

• Wednesday, September 5th 2012 - 00:44 UTC

  Antarctica could hold large volumes of methane, warn British scientists

  

  Large volumes of methane - a potent greenhouse gas - could be locked beneath the ice-covered regions of Antarctica, according to a new study. Methane could be released into the atmosphere as ice retreats, contributing to climate warming.

• Tuesday, September 4th 2012 - 00:25 UTC

  Nearly 11.500 humpback whales counted off the coast of Brazil

  

  Whales are returning to the coast of Brazil. Last year, nearly 11,500 humpback whales were counted off the coast of Brazil - a new record, the Baleia Jubarte Institute cheered on Sunday in a report.

• Friday, August 31st 2012 - 05:33 UTC

  Falklands claim Argentina wants to decimate Illex fishery: “environmental terrorism”

  

  Argentina has no interest whatsoever in fisheries conservation, Chair of the Falkland Islands Fishing Companies Association (FIFCA) Cheryl Roberts stated this week, and Director of Natural Resources John Barton believes an Argentine action aimed at undermining the Falklands fishery is likely to have a negative impact on their own fishery.

• Friday, August 31st 2012 - 04:46 UTC

  Global food prices index soars 10% in July: World Bank sound the alarm

  

  Global food prices soared by 10% in July from a month ago, with maize and soybean reaching all-time peaks due to an unprecedented summer of droughts and high temperatures in both the United States and Eastern Europe, according to the World Bank Group’s latest Food Price Watch report.

• Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 03:50 UTC

  Venezuela investigating alleged massacre of indigenous people in the Amazon

  

  Venezuela announced it is investigating an alleged massacre of indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest, after a tribal group told the government that a village of 80 natives was attacked in July from a helicopter.

• Thursday, August 30th 2012 - 03:33 UTC

  Protecting the whales from aggressive scavenger seagulls in Puerto Madryn

  

  Saving the whales is something Argentines take so seriously that authorities are planning to shoot seagulls that have developed a habit of attacking the huge marine mammals. But environmentalists say the plan is misguided because humans are the real problem, creating so much garbage that the seagull population has exploded, endangering the whales.