Environment

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 14:35 UTC

  Developing meat export industry, top priority of Falklands’ Agriculture Department

  

  It is the generation of thirty-something who as children were the first to benefit from well-funded primary and secondary education following the Islands’ economic turn-around in the late 1980’s. They were the first generation of locally educated children who could graduate in careers of their choice.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 01:49 UTC

  Imperceptibly, the tide of debate is turning on climate change

  

  The forthcoming Durban (Climate change) conference comes at a major crossroads in international relations, with continuing economic malaise in the West being counterpoised with the increasingly rapid shift of power to emerging economies. Mirroring this structural change is a fundamental shift in the centre of gravity of the global climate change debate that few have yet to recognize.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 01:01 UTC

  Peruvian peasants clash with police to protest against gold mine in the Andes

  

  Peruvian police fired tear gas on Friday to break up a protest at Newmont Mining Corp's proposed 4.8 billion dollars Conga gold mine as the government tried to mediate a bitter environmental dispute over the project. Several protesters were injured.

• Saturday, November 26th 2011 - 03:18 UTC

  Strong process of land concentration and in foreign hands in Latam says FAO

  

  A report from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, FAO, in seventeen Latinamerican and Caribbean countries discovered an intense concentration and foreign-held land process.

• Friday, November 25th 2011 - 14:02 UTC

  British Services team ready for two-month Antarctica expedition to honour Captain Scott

  

  The Service personnel who will take part in the British Services Antarctic Expedition 2012 have recently completed their final mission rehearsal exercise (MRX) in the Ecrins National Park region of the French Alps.

• Thursday, November 24th 2011 - 18:36 UTC

  Antarctica partial eclipse with the moon covering 80% of the sun at South Pole

  

  On Friday, 25 November 2011, a solar eclipse will sweep across the southern part of the world, with the Moon covering about 80% of the Sun at the South Pole, reports the International Astronomical Union, IAU.

• Wednesday, November 23rd 2011 - 23:04 UTC

  Brazil suspends Chevron drilling rights until it clarifies the recent oil spill

  

  Brazil's National Oil Regulator (ANP) said on Wednesday that it is suspending the drilling rights of US oil major Chevron in national territory until it clarifies conditions of the recent oil spill in its Frade field.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 16:03 UTC

  Air traffic in Argentina and Uruguay delayed because of volcanic ash

  

  Commercial flights in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay were cancelled or reprogrammed Tuesday morning because of disruptions caused by the hovering volcanic ash being blown from the Chilean Puyehue which erupted five months ago.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 01:46 UTC

  World Bank loan to help Uruguayan farmers address climate change consequences

  

  The World Bank approved last week a loan for 49 million dollars to support Uruguayan farmers in adopting environmentally sustainable practices to improve the resilience of their production systems in response to the effects of climate variability.

• Tuesday, November 22nd 2011 - 00:40 UTC

  Brazil imposes maximum fine on Chevron for oil spill, but more sanctions in the pipeline

  

  Brazil’s environmental agency said on Monday it will fine US Chevron 50 million Reais, nearly 28 million dollars, for a continuing oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro and the company could face several more similar fines in the coming days.