Environment

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Falklands black browed albatross: from prey feeding to fishery discards

  

  Falklands' located South Atlantic Environmental Research Institute, SAERI, PhD researcher Amanda Kuepfer and her collaborators have published in the ICES Journal of Marine Science on discard use by black-browed albatross chicks, and how this relates to natural foraging conditions and breeding success.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Brize Norton diverting flights because of plus 40C soaring temperature: “runway is melting”

  

  Extreme temperatures have forced Britain's biggest air base to halt all of its flights in and out. Aircraft to RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, have been forced to divert to other airfields. Brize Norton is also the UK air-bridge head link with MPC in the Falkland Islands.

• Thursday, July 14th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Pope Francis calls on youth to save the planet and “eat less meat|”

  

  Pope Francis, who comes from Argentina, known for its beef production and consumption, said that in some parts of the world, it would be a good idea to “consume less meat” to help save the environment. The pope also condemned the war in Ukraine saying that in such cases it was “legitimate to rebel”.

• Thursday, July 14th 2022 - 08:28 UTC

  Dominican Republic plans to clear sargassum from beaches working with organic certified company

  

  A Finnish algae processing company is considering installing a plant in the Dominican Republic given the negative impact of the sargassum seaweed invasion of its beaches and tourism industry.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 09:39 UTC

  Falklands' SAERI project on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems of the Southwest Atlantic

  

  Research from the Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems (VME) project has been showcased at the GeoHab Conference held at The Venice International University in Italy during the month of May 2022.

• Tuesday, July 12th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Uruguay records coldest, driest June in decades

  

  Uruguay's Institute of Meteorology (Inumet) reported Monday that this year's was the coldest June in the last 41 years “with a countrywide anomaly of -2.3°C.”

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 10:05 UTC

  Europe divided over “greenwashing” gas and nuclear energy, but parliament ready to support the bill

  

  For the European Parliament natural gas and nuclear power plants have been designated as climate-friendly investments. The European Commission released the proposal, formally called the EU taxonomy, in December as a list of economic activities that investors can label and market as green in the EU.

• Monday, July 11th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  Faroe Islands limit traditional catch of dolphins to 500; 'barbaric practice' killed 1,423 last year

  

  Faroe Islands announced on Sunday that the traditional catch of dolphins to be killed in its water would provisionally be limited to 500. The decision to crack down on the number of hunted dolphins comes after public outcry from last year's hunt, where over 1,423 white-sided dolphins were killed, a spree that shocked even residents who supported the practice.

• Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Illegal fishing: there are more than 350 foreign vessels operating in the South West Atlantic, expert says

  

  Last Tuesday, 11 tons of squid were found in a Chinese flagged vessel that was captured by the Uruguayan Navy, after a chase that took place between Sunday night and early Monday morning.

• Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  European Union gets tough on trade affecting “deforestation and forest degradation”

  

  The European Council, the body that sets the political agenda of the European Union (EU), agreed on a proposal to limit the entry and trade of commodities where production has contributed to “deforestation or forest degradation” worldwide.