Environment

• 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.

• Saturday, January 30th 2010 - 14:31 UTC

  Russia and Antarctica

  

  A historic discovery was made on January 28, 1820. A Russian navy expedition under the command of Faddei Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev sighted the last of the remaining unexplored continents - Antarctica.

• Friday, January 29th 2010 - 11:45 UTC

  New species moving into Chilean waters because of climate change

  

  “I felt a rush and a little fear when I saw it,” said Chilean surf champion Diego Medina after spotting what appeared to be a shark off the beaches of La Serena (Region IV). In reality, the creature was one of the large swordfish species that recently migrated to Chile's shores as a consequence of warming water currents.

• Friday, January 29th 2010 - 09:08 UTC

  Released from glaciers Patagonia mountains are growing taller

  

  Mountains along the southernmost swath of South America are growing taller at a record rate, say researchers, who attribute the growth to the accelerating loss of glaciers.