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Montevideo, April 10th 2025 - 11:26 UTC

Environment

  • Sunday, February 9th 2025 - 10:58 UTC

    Falklands launches Land Recovery Program consultation to sponsor agriculture and biodiversity

    The program recognizes the increasing pressures Camp communities and landscapes face from economic uncertainty, climate change, and environmental challenges.

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) has launched a public consultation to help shape a Land Recovery Program. This initiative is aimed at supporting farmers and other land managers in restoring degraded land, sustaining agricultural productivity, and enhancing biodiversity.

  • Sunday, February 9th 2025 - 10:49 UTC

    Beautiful South Georgia from the air on a day of great visibility

    Approaching the island

    The BFSAI is reporting that an RFA Airbus Atlas 400 M during a recent fisheries patrol operation, ColdStare, along South Georgia Island and waters enjoyed spectacular flying conditions, with blue skies, since they are normally covered in cloud’

  • Saturday, February 8th 2025 - 09:42 UTC

    Was last month the hottest ever?

    January 2025 was predominantly wetter than average, with heavy rainfall leading to flooding in some regions

    January 2025 was the hottest month ever recorded by the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service, which detected the planet's temperature to be 1.75 degrees Celsius (°C) above pre-industrial levels and 0.79°C above the 1991-2020 average for the month, with a surface air temperature of 13.23°C.

  • Friday, February 7th 2025 - 07:59 UTC

    Scientists discover micro plastics in Antarctica deep field camps

    A view over the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica. Credit: Steve Gibbs, BAS

    Scientists have discovered microplastics in the snow near some of Antarctica’s deep field camps, revealing how far-reaching plastic pollution has become. While not new, it’s the first time these tiny pieces of plastic have been found in remote locations.

  • Thursday, February 6th 2025 - 08:30 UTC

    Milei now wants Argentina to quit the Paris Agreement

    Milei's government keeps taking stage countering progressive measures adopted under previous administrations

    After pulling his country from the World Health Organization (WHO), Argentine President Javier Milei admitted Wednesday in an interview with a French outlet that he intended to withdraw from the 2015 Paris Agreement to limit greenhouse gas emmissions to preserve the planet's temperature from rising. “The environmentalist agenda is a real fraud,” said Milei, thus echoing similar recent statements from US President Donald Trump. To withdraw from the Paris Agreement, Law 27.270 would have to b e repealed by Congress.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 13:28 UTC

    Argentine authorities take action against RAM for Patagonia fires

    “I am a militant of the Mapuche cause,” Jones-Huala insisted

    Argentine Security Minister Patricia Bullrich said Tuesday that the Libertarian Government of President Javier Milei would be declaring the Ancestral Mapuche Resistance (RAM) a terrorist group, in addition to other measures against lonko (leader) Facundo Jones-Huala, who claimed responsibility for the arson-caused wildfires in the Patagonian province of Chubut and urged his comrades to up the armed struggle because all those “tools are valid for the liberation of our people.” Jones-Huala also denied any involvement in the fire affecting El Bolsón in the province of Río Negro. “Against landowners yes, but not against our environment,” Jones Huala said earlier this week.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 07:57 UTC

    Argentine Patagonia wildfires man-caused

    Accelerants were detected where the fires are believed to have started

    Argentine authorities determined that the fires currently ravaging through the Patagonian enclaves of El Bolsón (Río Negro) and Epuyén (Chubut) were arson. The announcements were made after the sites of the initial outbreaks were found and accelerants were detected. Governors Ignacio Torres (Chubut) and Alberto Weretilneck (Río Negro) pledged to investigate the matter and hold those responsible accountable.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 05:31 UTC

    Falklands, summary findings from salmon-farming scoping exercise

    FIG ran a scoping exercise from 04 November to 01 December 2024, to establish what additional information and evidence the public and stakeholder groups want to see

    The Falkland Islands Government (FIG) is in the process of considering the potential for the future development of large-scale, commercial salmon-farming activities in Falkland Islands waters. An in-depth public consultation on a set of development proposals, including a proposal that large-scale salmon-farming is not permitted, is planned for mid-2025.

  • Saturday, February 1st 2025 - 08:13 UTC

    BAS studies whales and fish to protect South Georgia marine ecosystem

    Humpback whales migrate south to South Georgia. Image: Fredrik Christiansen

    British Antarctic Survey scientists on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia are working to better understand the rich marine life that inhabits the region. This month teams are focusing on two major projects: one on whales and their consumption of krill (a shrimp-like creature that’s abundant in the Southern Ocean), and another on populations of bottom-dwelling fish. Their findings will help ensure the long-term health of the region’s ocean ecosystem and support sustainable fisheries.

  • Monday, January 27th 2025 - 07:58 UTC

    Polar Medal 2025 for British Antarctic Survey staff

    Steve ‘Binky’ Stiglic-Buxton – Electronics Officer (Communications)

    Congratulations to British Antarctic Survey (BAS) staff who have been awarded a Polar Medal in the 2025 New Year’s Honours List for their contributions to improving our understanding of Antarctica, through scientific or technical work in or about the Polar Regions.