Environment

• 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.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2012 - 06:34 UTC

  Canadian mining company says it wants a “social licence” for controversial project in Argentina

  

  The Canadian Osisko mining corporation has suspended a gold mining project in Argentina after protests by locals. Osisko said on Tuesday it would put its operation in north-western La Rioja province on hold if it did not get the backing of the local population which has been protesting for weeks.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2012 - 00:06 UTC

  Chilean police arrests gang that stole five tons of glacier ice

  

  Police were investigating a criminal gang that allegedly stole blocks of ice from the Jorge Montt Glacier in southern Chile.

• Wednesday, February 1st 2012 - 00:01 UTC

  System of rivers beneath Antarctica’s frozen surface found by Brazil/Chile team

  

  A team of Brazilian and Chilean scientists set out to investigate the effects of global climate change deep in the Antarctic continent say they have discovered a surprising system of rivers beneath the frozen surface.

• Monday, January 30th 2012 - 22:24 UTC

  Study on dietary habits (what and where) of Atlantic sharks

  

  A team of scientists of Chelonia Association and the University of Marseille (France) chose the port of Vigo to initiate a study on dietary habits and intake areas of Atlantic sharks.