Environment

• Thursday, December 2nd 2010 - 04:15 UTC

  Cruise industry blasts latest IMO environmental rules

  

  One of the cruise industry's top executives this week openly criticized new environmental rules that he says will have a profound impact on cruise lines.

• Wednesday, December 1st 2010 - 03:35 UTC

  Brazil plans to cut subsidized long term loans to combat inflation

  

  Brazil plans to cut funding for its state development bank by 50% in 2011 in an effort to bring down the world’s second-highest inflation-adjusted interest rates. The reduction in loans the government provides to BNDES, as the bank is known, forms part of a plan to curb public spending, Finance Minister Guido Mantega said in an interview in Brasilia.

• Thursday, November 25th 2010 - 20:04 UTC

  HMS Scott leaves Plymouth for the 2010/2011 Antarctic season

  

  The Royal Navy deep water survey ship HMS Scott deployed to the Antarctic early morning Thursday from Plymouth, which coincides with the 100th anniversary of Captain Scott's final expedition to the area.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 - 23:56 UTC

  Fish can shrink during particularly harsh winters, say Scandinavian scientists

  

  Fish can shrink during particularly harsh winters, according to researchers. Scientists, based in Norway and Finland, discovered that juvenile brown trout reduced in length by as much as 1cm - shrinkage of approximately 10%.

• Tuesday, November 23rd 2010 - 02:50 UTC

  Argentina purchases 43 turbines for wind farms in Patagonia’s Rawson

  

  Denmark’s Vesta Wind Systems has received an order from Argentina for 43 V90-1.8 MW wind turbines (totalling 77 MW) to be mounted in the Rawson I wind farm and Rawson II wind farm both located in the outskirts of Rawson, Chubut province, Argentine Patagonia.

• Saturday, November 20th 2010 - 03:10 UTC

  Chile launches Antarctic season with 52 scientific research projects

  

  Chile will undertake its most ambitious scientific expedition in almost half a century of Antarctic activities with 52 projects planned for the 2010/2011 season. The activities program was announced by Javier Arata head of the Chilean Antarctic Institute Antarctic Science Program.

• Friday, November 19th 2010 - 04:50 UTC

  Museum suspends expedition to meet uncontacted tribes in the Paraguayan Chaco

  

  London's Natural History Museum has suspended a planned expedition to a remote region of Paraguay after protests that it might disturb one of the world's last uncontacted tribes.

• Thursday, November 18th 2010 - 20:53 UTC

  Alaska to Ushuaia in an electric car developed at the Imperial College London

  

  An electric sports car developed by European engineers has finished a remarkable 26.000 kilometres road trip on the Panamerican Highway, travelling from near the Arctic Circle in Alaska to the world's southernmost city, Ushuaia without a single blast of carbon dioxide emissions.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2010 - 12:05 UTC

  New species of squid discovered in the southern Indian Ocean

  

  A new species of squid has been discovered by scientists during a research cruise in the southern Indian Ocean. The 70cm-long specimen is a large member of the chiroteuthid family.

• Monday, November 15th 2010 - 18:58 UTC

  Falklands’ wind power contribution new record: 40% of Stanley’s consumption

  

  Annual wind power contribution in the Falkland Islands has set a new record with the significant milestone of 40% of renewable contribution, according to Stanley Power Station Manager Glenn Ross.