Environment

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 05:34 UTC

  Peruvian Andes glacier breaks-off: preview of what is to come?

  

  A huge glacier broke-off and plunged into a lake in Peru, causing a 23-metre tsunami wave that swept away at least three people and destroyed a water processing plant serving 60,000 local residents, government officials said Monday.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 00:25 UTC

  Washington Post ad calls on Mrs Kirchner to cancel coal plant in Patagonia

  

  In an attempt to take advantage of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's visit to the US (CFK is attending the Nuclear Security Summit), Greenpeace has posted a paid announcement on The Washington Post newspaper as a way to protest against the construction of a coal-fuelled power plant in Río Turbio, Santa Cruz province.

• Tuesday, April 13th 2010 - 00:19 UTC

  Brazilian authorities begin evacuation of shantytown ahead of planned demolitions

  

  Brazilian authorities evacuated thousands of shantytown residents Sunday so their houses could be demolished after heavy rains that killed at least 224 people last week threatened further landslides.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:30 UTC

  Rio do Janerio’s mud slides death toll could reach 400; focus on “responsibility”

  

  While rescuers raced against time amid fading hopes of finding survivors of a huge mudslide in the Rio do Janeiro area with over 400 people now feared dead in some of the worst flooding to swamp Brazil in decades, focus has turned on responsibility for the magnitude of the catastrophe.

• Monday, April 12th 2010 - 05:09 UTC

  Hollywood stars support natural park conservation project in Ecuador

  

  Hollywood stars Leonardo Di Caprio and Glenn Close are willing to support an environment-conservation project in Ecuador that would prevent the extraction of 850 million barrels of oil from the Amazon.

• Thursday, April 8th 2010 - 23:16 UTC

  Latest mudslide may have killed 200 people in Rio do Janeiro

  

  A landslide in a Rio de Janeiro satellite city may have killed 200 people as rains that started earlier this week continue to saturate the soil of the hilly region home to 12 million people, the state’s civil defense office said on Thursday.

• Thursday, April 8th 2010 - 01:27 UTC

  Rio declares three days of mourning, while many city services remain paralyzed

  

  At least 113 people died, over 100 were injured and 1,410 were left homeless in a storm that devastated Brazil's state of Rio de Janeiro since Monday evening, authorities said Wednesday.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2010 - 23:37 UTC

  Chagos archipielago MPS, doubles protected area of world’s oceans

  

  British Foreign Secretary David Miliband announced last week the creation of a Marine Protected Area (MPA) in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). The move doubles the total officially protected area of the world's oceans.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2010 - 22:34 UTC

  Vatican State Secretary visits Chile in support of quake victims

  

  The secretary of Vatican State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone arrived in Chile this week for an extended visit which includes a meeting with President Sebastian Piñera.

• Wednesday, April 7th 2010 - 06:03 UTC

  Olympic Rio do Janeiro collapses under heavy rains leaving at least 100 dead

  

  Landslides and floods set off by the heaviest rains in decades killed at least 100 people in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, making hundreds homeless, flooding roads and paralyzing Brazil's second city, officials said.