Environment

• Friday, December 2nd 2011 - 15:41 UTC

  Brazilian biologists manage to picture rare example of albino dolphin

  

  Brazilian biologists have found an extremely rare example of an albino dolphin among an endangered species that lives off the southern coast of South America.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2011 - 20:47 UTC

  UK promises more support for the Overseas Territories biodiversity strategy

  

  Overseas Territories Minister Henry Bellingham met representatives of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds on Wednesday, and received a pledge signed by almost 17,000 of their members, asking the UK Government to ensure that the valuable biodiversity of the Overseas Territories is preserved.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2011 - 12:48 UTC

  At Durban, we need to rethink the next steps to tackling climate change

  

  The main aim of the UN climate summit at Durban, which began on November 28 and finishes on December 9, is to produce an agreement about targets for emissions by developed countries, and longer term targets from developing countries.

• Wednesday, November 30th 2011 - 00:11 UTC

  Ecuadorean volcano spews red-hot rock and ash; populations abandon risk area

  

  Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano (‘throat of fire’ in indigenous Quechua language) spewed red-hot rock and ash Tuesday as officials upgraded their eruption warning level to orange and some at-risk communities began evacuations.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 21:00 UTC

  Global temperature in 2011, the tenth highest on record, says WMO

  

  Global temperatures in 2011 are currently the tenth highest on record and are higher than any previous year with a La Niña event, which has a relative cooling influence. The 13 warmest years have all occurred in the 15 years since 1997. The extent of Arctic sea ice in 2011 was the second lowest on record, and its volume was the lowest.

• Tuesday, November 29th 2011 - 15:42 UTC

  Ice Patrol HMS Protector steaming for its deployment to Antarctica

  

  The Royal Navy's new ice patrol ship, HMS Protector left Portsmouth Monday for a seven-month deployment surveying and patrolling the frozen continent of Antarctica. The 5.000-tons ice-breaking ship completed an intensive period of sea trials and training prior to deploying to the Antarctic Peninsula.

• Monday, November 28th 2011 - 15:27 UTC

  Colourful plastic recycled penguins “take over” Carrasco airport in Montevideo

  

  The Belgian artist William Sweetlove (born Oostende, Belgium, 1949) has placed 330 gigantic sculptures with a strong ecological message in the international airport of Carrasco, Montevideo, Uruguay.

• 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.