Environment

• Monday, May 1st 2023 - 10:10 UTC

  UK funds for Darwin Initiative to tackle nature-loss in Overseas Territories including the Falklands

  

  Efforts to boost biodiversity recovery in the UK Overseas Territories have been bolstered by the British government with large-scale projects funded for the first time to tackle nature loss.

• Wednesday, April 26th 2023 - 02:49 UTC

  Penguins Day and the Falklands as one of the world's great penguin capitals

  

  Monday, April 25th, was Penguins Day, an occasion closely linked to the Falklands and its identity with the iconic penguin. In effect, most people imagine the flightless seabird to be solely polar creatures, much more at home in a world of ice and snow than on the sandy beaches and sheep paddocks of the Falkland Islands.

• Friday, April 21st 2023 - 10:45 UTC

  Uruguayan agricultural emergency extended until when?

  

  Uruguayan authorities Thursday announced the current declaration of agricultural emergency will be extended until September from April 24.

• Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:40 UTC

  European Parliament approves law banning imports from deforested lands

  

  The European Parliament on Wednesday approved a landmark deforestation law to ban imports into the European Union that come from any land that was deforested since December 31, 2020.

• Thursday, April 20th 2023 - 10:01 UTC

  Escazú Agreement poses new challenges to Latin American countries

  

  Argentine President Alberto Fernández Wednesday opened the Second Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP2) of the Escazú Agreement at the Kirchner Cultural Center in Buenos Aires. The event will last until April 21.

• Wednesday, April 19th 2023 - 09:20 UTC

  Falklands collecting info for the launching of its Business Climate Survey 2023

  

  The Falkland Islands Development Corporation has launched the Business Climate Survey 2023 in partnership with the Falkland Islands Chamber of Commerce, the Falkland Islands Tourism Association and the Rural Business Association.

• Sunday, April 16th 2023 - 12:49 UTC

  Nuclear energy era comes to an end in Germany

  

  The era of nuclear reactors came to an end in Germany Saturday after the three last such plants were shut down as the country enters a new energy chapter, facing the challenge of doing without fossil fuels while at the same time managing the gas crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine.

• Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - 11:06 UTC

  Another consequence of historic Argentine drought: it could lose its position as world's main soy meal exporter

  

  Argentina could soon face the consequences of the historic drought ravaging its agricultural and industrial processing potential. This means the country may soon cease to be the world’s largest exporter of soy-meal, since domestic oilseed production, because of the historic drought is likely to reduced by 36% year-on-year to just 27 million tons in the 2022/23 cycle, said the Rosario Stock Exchange (BCR).

• Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - 11:00 UTC

  IEA insists increasing fossil fuel production contradicts goals to stop global warming

  

  Fatih Birol, head of the powerful International Energy Agency, (IEA),, the Paris-based organization led by the energy ministers of mostly rich countries, has warned that companies that increase fossil fuel production are contradicting goals to stop the planet warming.

• Wednesday, April 12th 2023 - 10:57 UTC

  Antarctic Tourism is up, but experts give it a thumbs down

  

  By Jen Rose Smith (*) – Even after Captain James Cook first sailed below the Antarctic Circle 250 years ago, icily inhospitable Antarctica stayed quiet for a long, long time. The only continent with no native human population, it remained a place apart, where occasional expeditions and intrepid researchers contended with harsh and sometimes deadly conditions.