Environment

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 10:00 UTC

  Message from Australia to cruise vessels, “brush your hulls before coming to Australian ports”

  

  The cruise vessel Viking Orion, with some 800 passengers, was denied permission to dock in Adelaide after Australian authorities discovered a “marine growth” on the ship, which is called “biofoul” and is considered potentially harmful.

• Tuesday, January 3rd 2023 - 09:56 UTC

  Activity at Villarrica volcano warrants upholding yellow alert

  

  Authorities remain on yellow alert regarding the Villarrica volcano after a seismic episode was recorded at 1.07 pm local time on Jan. 1 which was directly linked to the movement of internal fluids, according to monitoring stations

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 19:34 UTC

  Heavy rains kill seven people in São Paulo state, one still missing

  

  At least seven people have been killed in one week in the Brazilian state of São Paulo due to heavy rains, Agencia Brasil reported Friday. Five of the victims belonged to the same family in the city of Araraquara.

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Buffalo in New York State emerges from “once in a generation storm”

  

  .The US city of Buffalo, upstate New York in Eire County emerged on Thursday out of several feet of snow. Buffalo was the epicenter of a major deadly freezing storm that swept across the United States and Canada killing some sixty people of which 37 in Eire County, according to official Mark Poloncarz.

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Marina Silva, an active environmentalist and defender of the Amazon is back in Lula da Silva's cabinet

  

  Marina Silva, an active environmentalist, has been appointed Brazil's next environment minister by president elect Lula da Silva. Ms Silva held a similar post in Lula's first government in 2003, but following strong differences stepped down and formed her own political party.

• Friday, December 30th 2022 - 01:16 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego fires still smoldering

  

  One month after the forest fires started in the Argentine province of Tierra del Fuego, the authorities are still unable to put down the flames as new “hot spots” keep being found with over 100 firefighters deployed. Over 9,000 hectares of native forests burned down, it was reported.

• Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 10:14 UTC

  SAERI: Climate change resilience in the Falklands Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems

  

  The Falkland Islands (FI) historically lacked herbivorous mammals. The introduction of grazing animals has led to vegetation changes and soil erosion. The impact of these changes on wetland and aquatic habitats is not well-understood; limited past research suggests that water quality may remain fairly natural and is largely influenced by sea salt deposition and humic acids from peat runoff. Some studies, however, have shown evidence of human impacts, such as elevated nutrient concentrations in some ponds.

• Monday, December 26th 2022 - 20:36 UTC

  Chile: Fire in Viña under control but red alert declared in La Araucanía

  

  Chilean authorities announced late Sunday that the fire in Viña del Mar was under control and declared a red alert for a similar incident in La Araucanía.

• Monday, December 26th 2022 - 10:22 UTC

  Cotopaxi volcano fumes have Ecuador under alert

  

  Ecuadorian authorities have been placed on alert after a 1,500-meter column of steam, gas, and ash emanated Sunday from the Cotopaxi volcano, it was reported.

• Saturday, December 24th 2022 - 10:50 UTC

  Chile: Two people dead, multiple homes burned down in Viña del Mar fire

  

  At least two people have been killed and over 400 homes were burned down in a fire Friday at Viña del Mar, 120 km west of the Chilean capital. Authorities foresee it will take several days to extinguish the fire and the national government has declared a state of catastrophe for the Valparaíso region.