Environment

Monday, April 27th 2020 - 07:29 UTC
Russia building 69,700-ton nuclear powered icebreakers to keep the Northern Sea Route navigable year round

Russia pushes ahead with plans to ensure year-round navigation along the Northern Sea Route. The Leader-class icebreaker also referred to as LK-120Ya, will be twice as powerful as the country’s current nuclear icebreakers.
Saturday, April 25th 2020 - 08:07 UTC
World Penguin Day Highlights Need for More Southern Ocean Protections

By Andrea Kavanagh (*) – The world is experiencing an unprecedented moment in history, and what feels like a strange stoppage of time. But time, of course, hasn’t stopped, and for many species, the ticking clock brings ominous signs.
Friday, April 24th 2020 - 08:30 UTC
2019 was the hottest year in history across Europe; records shattered by heat waves

Last year was the hottest in history across Europe as temperature records were shattered by several extreme heatwaves, the European Union's satellite monitoring surface said. In its annual report on the state of the climate, the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said that 11 of the continent's 12 warmest years on record have been since 2000 as greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise.
Wednesday, April 22nd 2020 - 06:35 UTC
UN chief urges governments to address climate change emergency, on 50th anniversary of Earth Day

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres urged governments to use their economic responses to the coronavirus pandemic to tackle the “even deeper emergency” of climate change, in a message for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.
Saturday, April 18th 2020 - 19:56 UTC
Argentina and Brazil trying to lift the water level of the Parana River, in the heartland of the soy belt

The governments of Argentina and Brazil are in talks to release water from the giant Itaipu Dam with a view to topping up the Parana River, where ebbing levels are conspiring against a US$ 20-billion-a-year crop export business.
Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:45 UTC
Parana river water level hampering grain transport in the midst of peak harvest

Below normal rains in the Parana-Paraguay water basin is hampering grain transport through waterways in Argentina as the water level of the river has dropped significantly, Bolsa de Comercio de Rosario, or BCR, said in a report.
Tuesday, April 14th 2020 - 08:40 UTC
A Brazilian industry COVID-19 hasn't stopped: deforestation in the Amazon

Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose in March, government data showed on Friday, indicating that illegal loggers and land speculators have not stopped destroying the forest with the onset of the coronavirus outbreak.
Monday, April 13th 2020 - 07:34 UTC
March 2020, the driest March in Falklands on record

March 2020 was the driest March on record according to data from the Met Office at Mount Pleasant Airport in the Falkland Islands, with rainfall less than a third of the monthly average.
Wednesday, April 8th 2020 - 18:30 UTC
BAS ends Antarctic season and organizing the return: chartered ship will leave Falklands for UK 3 May

British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has announced exceptional plans to repatriate scientists, support teams and construction workers as they complete their Antarctic summer field season work.
Tuesday, April 7th 2020 - 07:48 UTC
Central Chile drought has residents and mining companies clash over water rights

With historically low river flows and reservoirs running dry due to drought, people in central Chile have found themselves particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. Years of resource exploitation and lax legislation have allowed most reservoirs in that part of the country to run dry.