Environment

• Saturday, February 27th 2010 - 08:42 UTC

  Chile: Tsunami wave as high as 9 feet has been recorded.

  

  A POWERFUL 8.3 magnitude earthquake has struck the Pacific Ocean near the coast of central Chile, with US authorities warning it could generate a tsunami

• Saturday, February 27th 2010 - 00:42 UTC

  Iceberg size of Luxembourg knocks loose and could disrupt weather patterns

  

  An iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe, researchers said on Friday.

• Thursday, February 25th 2010 - 01:06 UTC

  Sperm whales herd hunt “squid balls” at depths over 1.000 meters

  

  Sperm whales may team up and hunt collaboratively, scientists have suggested. A US research team used hi-tech tags to glimpse some of the giant marine mammals' remarkable hunting behaviour.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2010 - 07:00 UTC

  Latinamerica Economic Climate on the rise: Brazil, Uruguay, Peru lead

  

  Latinamerica’s Economic Climate Index (ECI), --developed between the German Ifo Institute from the University of Munich and Brazil’s Getulio Vargas Foundation, FGV-- increased to 5.6 points from 5.2 between October 2009 and January 2010, consolidating the trend of economic recovery in the region.

• Monday, February 22nd 2010 - 23:53 UTC

  Germans record underwater massive iceberg crash into Antarctic ice-shelf

  

  German oceanographers in Antarctica used underwater microphones this month to listen in on a massive iceberg crashing into the Antarctic ice-shelf, which cause a 2 000- metre crack, the ice lab headquarters said on Monday.

• Saturday, February 13th 2010 - 07:42 UTC

  Argentina: Oil Co. report refutes drop in hake stocks

  

  An investigation carried out by the oil company Pan American Energy (PAE), at the behest of the Santa Cruz Fisheries Subsecretariat, contends that the capture of common hake (Merluccius hubbsi) has spiked in the San Jorge Gulf fishing-ground. The results of the study contradict claims by the yellow fleet fishers of Caleta Paula, who complain of a smaller abundance of the resource.

• Monday, February 8th 2010 - 04:56 UTC

  Climate change and higher levels of C02 making trees grow faster

  

  A new study on trees and climate change, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found evidence that forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster than they have in the past 225 years.

• Saturday, February 6th 2010 - 11:49 UTC

  Whaler, activist ship collide again off Antarctica

  

  Anti-whaling activists have described how Japanese whaling ships circled their protest vessel “like sharks” before ramming it off Antarctica.

• Wednesday, February 3rd 2010 - 12:20 UTC

  Green light in Brazil for controversial dam in Amazon jungle

  

  A controversial project to build a massive hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon jungle has received the go-ahead from Brazil’s environmental protection agency, despite objections from environmentalists and indigenous people who live in the area.

• Tuesday, February 2nd 2010 - 03:53 UTC

  Falklands plan to reduce seabird deaths caused by trawl fishery

  

  A FOUR year action plan to reduce seabird mortality caused by trawl fishing around the Falklands was passed by the Islands Executive Councilors this week.