Environment

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 10:22 UTC

  Agricultural emergency, triggered by drought, extended for another 90 days in Uruguay

  

  More than 60% of the Uruguayan territory is suffering from extreme or severe drought in the last three months, October 2022/January 2023, according to the Uruguayan Meteorological Institute, Inumet,

• Thursday, January 19th 2023 - 09:56 UTC

  World in a “sorry state” and “the climate battle is being lost,” UN Guterres to Davos Summit

  

  United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the world is in a “sorry state,” adding the climate “battle is being lost” and every week brings “a new climate horror”.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 20:29 UTC

  Record Amazon deforestation reached last year

  

  According to a report released Wednesday by Brazil's Institute of Man and Environment of the Amazon (Imazon), deforestation in 2022 hit new highs, with 10,573 km² of forest vegetation lost, Agencia Brasil reported. That surface is tantamount to that of nearly 3,000 football fields, it was explained.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 10:33 UTC

  Australia and New Zealand cruise itineraries modified as both countries demand strict hull cleaning

  

  Due to strict maritime bio-security rules, the hull cleaning issue is threatening the cruise sector in Australia and New Zealand. Ports of call are dropped from the schedule, and time is spent at sea waiting for the ship’s hull to be cleaned.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 10:08 UTC

  Thunberg released from German Police custody

  

  Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was released from a German Police precinct Tuesday after she was identified together with all the other demonstrators joining her in a protest in the town of Lützerath, which was to be demolished to expand a coal mining project in a country needing energy sources following Russia's response to western sanctions due to the war in Ukraine.

• Wednesday, January 18th 2023 - 09:43 UTC

  Uruguay extends agricultural emergency to support drought-hit producers

  

  Uruguay's Minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries Fernando Mattos Tuesday announced that the Government of President Luis Lacalle Pou was extending the agricultural and livestock emergency until April.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:54 UTC

  No Mapuche Resistance involvement proven in Chubut fire

  

  Chubut investigators denied Monday that the Ancestral Mapuche Resistance (RAM) rebel organization had claimed responsibility for the fire in Currumahuida hill in the town of El Hoyo.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:49 UTC

  Falklands share the collective responsibility to tackle the climate crisis

  

  By MLA Peter Biggs (*) – In the Falkland Islands, the foundations of our livelihoods are reliant on our environment - fishing, agriculture, tourism - and these key sectors would not exist without healthy ecosystems.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2023 - 10:31 UTC

  BAS and WWF “Walrus Detectives” project with satellite surveying to understand the Arctic marine mammals

  

  This week British Antarctic Survey and World Wide Fund, WWF, are inviting the public to become ‘walrus detectives’ and get involved in the Walrus from Space project to help with vital research to enable a better understanding of these Arctic marine mammals.

• Monday, January 16th 2023 - 19:47 UTC

  Residents evacuated, lake navigation restricted due to fire in Chubut

  

  Around 60 people have been evacuated from their homes in the town of El Hoyo in the Argentine province of Chubut while 135 firefighters were deployed together with three hydrant planes and a helicopter to face the flames having gripped the Currumahuida hill since Sunday afternoon, it was reported.