Environment

Friday, December 17th 2010 - 18:41 UTC
New guide documents marine life amazing diversity in Chilean Patagonia

After more than 10 years of research, Chile’s San Ignacio de Huinay Foundation has published a guide chronicling the amazing diversity of marine life in Chile’s Patagonia, with photographs of 473 marine life species
Thursday, December 16th 2010 - 16:19 UTC
“Falklands under economic and environmental attack” by Argentina

“The Falklands are under economic and ‘environmental’ attack by Argentina” and this is having a direct impact on the South Atlantic fisheries sustainability of high seas marine resources, claimed the Falkland Islands Fishing Companies Association, FIFCA.
Wednesday, December 15th 2010 - 22:32 UTC
South Georgia shelf graveyard for mega-icebergs with huge impact on marine life

The huge tabular blocks of ice that frequently break off Antarctica get swept towards the Atlantic and then ground on the shallow continental shelf that surrounds the 170km-long island of South Georgia.
Tuesday, December 14th 2010 - 17:12 UTC
US/Swedish expedition to explore Amundsen Sea ecology and potential ‘polynyas’

In a complex example of “science diplomacy,” teams of U.S. and Swedish scientists are sailing this month aboard two research vessels to study the ecology of the Amundsen Sea, one of the least-explored and most productive bodies in Antarctic waters, and to gauge the potential effects of a changing climate on the Southern Ocean.
Monday, December 13th 2010 - 04:51 UTC
Top Korean steelmaker earns carbon-credits with afforestation project in Uruguay

Korea’s POSCO major forestation project in Uruguay has been accredited by the United Nations as helping offset the steel-maker's huge carbon footprint. The Korean steel-maker registered the CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) business with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) to earn carbon credits through its afforestation project in Uruguay.
Sunday, December 12th 2010 - 23:41 UTC
Picture evidence of four kilometres retraction (in 80 years) of glacier in Patagonia

The Argentine Patagonian glacier Ameghino has contracted almost four kilometres over the last eighty years because of global warming according to evidence from Greenpeace.
Saturday, December 11th 2010 - 00:44 UTC
Glaciers in Chile and Argentina are melting at the fastest rate

Glaciers in Chile, Argentina and Alaska are melting at the fastest rate, according to a report compiled by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and presented this week at the UN climate change talks in Cancún, Mexico.
Friday, December 10th 2010 - 18:20 UTC
Chile begins construction of 1 MW solar energy plant to supply copper mine

Last December 2, a ceremonial first stone was laid to mark the start of construction of a photovoltaic solar plant near the northern Chilean city of Calama.
Friday, December 10th 2010 - 01:54 UTC
British expedition claims to have established Antarctic land-crossing record

British expedition to Antarctica says it has succeeded in establishing a new record - the fastest land crossing of the southernmost continent.
Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 07:18 UTC
Heavy rains force temporary suspension of traffic in the Panama Canal

Heavy rains have forced the temporary suspension of traffic along the Panama Canal, the major shipping waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans which handles 5% of global trade.