Environment

• Tuesday, February 14th 2012 - 08:49 UTC

  Set of six stamps dedicated to South Georgia unique shallow marine environment

  

  Shadowed beneath South Georgia’s rugged mountains and glacial valleys lay a rich and colourful seascape of plants and animals. This shallow marine environment has received surprisingly little attention since it was first studied during the Discovery Expeditions in 1925. As South Georgia is situated just south of the Polar Front, where warmer waters from the north meet colder Antarctic water from the south, the region is home to a unique assemblage of South Atlantic and Antarctic animals.

• Monday, February 13th 2012 - 20:50 UTC

  Agriculture methods accelerate erosion and global warming, says UN report

  

  Global warming will get worse as agricultural methods accelerate the rate of soil erosion, which depletes the amount of carbon the soil is able to store, a United Nations' Environment Programme report said on Monday.

• Monday, February 13th 2012 - 06:01 UTC

  It is official: Uruguay’s UPM-Botnia pulp mill does not contaminate, never has

  

  A huge pulp mill, UPM, which has been at the heart of a several years’ controversy between Uruguay and Argentina, does not contaminate revealed Uruguay’s Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro before the Uruguayan parliament.

• Saturday, February 11th 2012 - 07:39 UTC

  Putin boosts presidential campaign with a tot of Antarctic ice prehistoric water

  

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was given a water sample Friday taken from a pristine lake hidden under Antarctic ice for over a million years, after Russian scientists drilled down to its surface.

• Saturday, February 11th 2012 - 07:34 UTC

  Argentine police beats up environmentalists protesting mining projects: 24 injured

  

  At least 24 people were injured after Argentine police using rubber bullets, tear gas, dogs and riot vehicles violently cleared demonstrators blocking a national route to protest a mining project by Swiss and Canadian companies in the northeast of the country.

• Friday, February 10th 2012 - 01:21 UTC

  UN-backed marine expedition highlights impact of climate change in oceans

  

  A United Nations-backed scientific expedition which has been travelling the world’s oceans for almost three years is in New York seeking to raise public awareness of the impact of climate change in oceans.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 23:57 UTC

  Eight ton whale shark hauled out of the water: Largest catch?

  

  A group of Pakistani fishermen caught a monstrous whale shark in the Arabian Sea. A video clip was posted on YouTube showing the fish, about 40 feet long and six feet wide, being hauled in at the port using cranes in the Pakistani city of Karachi.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 20:06 UTC

  Russian icebreaker ‘Vasily Golovnin’ supplying Argentine Antarctica bases

  

  The Russian icebreaker ‘Vasily Golovnin’ left Buenos Aires this week for Antarctica to deliver equipment, fuel, food and general cargo to Argentina’s Antarctic bases.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2012 - 06:59 UTC

  Well managed marine sectors to promote a “Green economy in a blue world”

  

  Healthy seas and coasts would pay healthy dividends in a green economy, according to a report released by several United Nations Programs, the International Maritime Organization and a group of environmental groups that highlights the huge potential for economic growth and poverty eradication from well-managed marine sectors.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2012 - 06:55 UTC

  Brazil’s Petrobras admits second oil spill in less than a week

  

  Brazil's state-run energy giant Petrobras on Tuesday reported that 160 barrels of crude oil may have spilled from a deep-water well off Sao Paulo state but said the situation was under control.