Environment

• Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 17:53 UTC

  The volcanic ash cloud fools forecasts: flights to Argentine Patagonia delayed

  

  The Puyehue volcano ash cloud has again fooled forecasts and submitted air travellers to further misery. A number of flights to Argentine Patagonia were cancelled Thursday morning due to the shift in the movement of the lingering ash cloud and was predicted to reach Buenos Aires Province over the course of the next few hours.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 17:49 UTC

  Argentine Patagonia faces major agriculture and tourism disaster

  

  While air passengers in the Southern hemisphere continue exposed to the vicissitudes of the volcanic ash cloud Patagonian farmers have a much serious problem: feeding 1.5 million sheep and livestock when fields are covered with sludge of volcanic debris and snow.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 09:10 UTC

  “Cork” of lava threatens new explosion at Puyehue volcano warns Chile

  

  Chilean experts warned Wednesday that a “cork” of lava could lead to another explosion at the Puyehue volcano, which has caused major flight disruptions from Argentina to Australia.

• Thursday, June 23rd 2011 - 04:11 UTC

  Falkland Islands competitors skip ash cloud and are en route to Island Games

  

  Falkland Islands competitors and delegates, with patience and persistence, finally managed to skip the volcanic ash cloud and are on their way to the Isle of Wight for the NatWest Island Games which open next Saturday.

• Wednesday, June 22nd 2011 - 02:46 UTC

  British Deputy PM Clegg describes Brazil as an “environmental super-power”

  

  British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg praised Brazil as an “environmental super-power” underlining the country’s leadership in areas such as renewable energies which he described as one of the pillars of the ‘green economy’ for a more sustainable world.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 21:28 UTC

  Young emperor penguin turns up on a New Zealand beach

  

  A young emperor penguin, normally found in the Antarctic, has turned up on a New Zealand beach. It is a rare event, the first confirmed sighting of an Emperor penguin in New Zealand in 44 years.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 16:04 UTC

  Chile’s volcanic ash cloud again visits Australasia forcing grounding of air traffic

  

  A volcanic ash cloud, which originated in Chile on 4 June and has caused significant disruption to air travel around Australia and New Zealand since 12 June returned on Tuesday to Australasia forcing further cancellations for at the least the next 48 hours.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 04:51 UTC

  IPSO: unprecedented deterioration of the oceans threatens marine species

  

  The oceans are in a worse state than previously suspected, according to an expert panel of scientists. In a new report, they warn that ocean life is “at high risk of entering a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history”.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2011 - 04:45 UTC

  Chilean court suspends controversial hydroelectric complex in Patagonia

  

  A Chilean court on Monday ordered the suspension of a project to build a complex of five hydroelectric dams in the Patagonian wilderness, bowing to appeals by lawmakers and environmental groups.

• Monday, June 20th 2011 - 06:15 UTC

  Antarctic Treaty half a century celebration this week in Buenos Aires

  

  Signatories of the Antarctic Treaty would celebrate the pact's 50th anniversary here on June 23 while attending the treaty's 34th consultative meeting, Argentine Foreign Ministry said Friday.