Environment

• Friday, January 14th 2011 - 02:22 UTC

  Brazil flood deaths rise to 500

  

  Rescue workers struggled to reach areas cut off by devastating floods and landslides that have killed at least 500 people in one of Brazil's worst natural disasters in decades.

• Wednesday, January 12th 2011 - 17:58 UTC

  Brazilian Offshore Subsea Lab

  

  The Brazilian government and Navy are considering an ambitious plan for launching an offshore subsea lab to be located at the limit of the country´s territorial waters and beyond the farthest pre-salt play

• Monday, January 10th 2011 - 06:33 UTC

  Wikileaks uncovers secret whaling agreement between U.S. and Japan involving Sea Shepard

  

  Recent Wikileaks cables have exposed classified material sent by the United States embassy in Tokyo to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS).

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 18:48 UTC

  WikiLeaks Falklands - US concerned about Chavez while UK worried about trade and environmentalists

  

  The American Government kept a close eye on the dispute between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands in 2010. Hitherto secret US State Department communications published by Wikileaks reveal that Secretary of State Hilary Clinton wrote to the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires in early 2010, requesting analysis of the situation, which it was felt had been exacerbated by the British approval to search for oil in the seas off the islands, and by a revitalised and bitter diplomatic offensive by the government of President Cristina Fernndez de Kirchner.

• Thursday, January 6th 2011 - 12:09 UTC

  Magallanes region declare UV radiation exposure emergency first week of 2011

  

  Magallanes Region in the extreme south of Chile has declared an UV radiation emergency for the first weekend of 2011. According to the UV scale radiation or solar exposition is forecasted to reach 9 which is described as “very high and extreme”.

• Monday, January 3rd 2011 - 00:04 UTC

  Alert in southern Chile: magnitude 7.1 earthquake

  

  A magnitude-7.1 earthquake has shaken southern Chile, frightening hundreds of people who fled for higher ground fearing it could generate a tsunami like the one that ravaged the coastline last year.

• Thursday, December 30th 2010 - 07:59 UTC

  Buenos Aires Swelters Amid Heat Wave, Power Outages

  

  A blistering heat wave, power outages and a fuel shortage added up Tuesday to a second day of hellish conditions in Greater Buenos Aires, home to about a quarter of Argentina’s 40 million people.

• Wednesday, December 29th 2010 - 21:41 UTC

  Chile can’t keep up with demand for salt from frozen Europe

  

  As a result of the cold front affecting Europe, Chile’s Sociedad Punta de Lobos (SPL) —salt producer and exporter—is working at full capacity to export salt destined primarily for Belgium, Holland, Germany and France.

• Saturday, December 25th 2010 - 08:42 UTC

  EU blocks Uruguayan squid shipment because of high cadmium content

  

  The European Union blocked a shipment of squid from Uruguay’s main fishing processing group Fripur S.A. and sent Uruguayan authorities what is known as “rapid sanitary alert” explaining the motive for such a decision.

• Saturday, December 25th 2010 - 08:34 UTC

  US scientists looking into data suggesting sustained decline of Antarctic krill

  

  By Susan Moran - They’re called “the krillers” around Palmer Station, because they’re always on the hunt for Antarctic krill: tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that form the foundation of the Antarctic food web.