Environment

• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 10:28 UTC

  Phillips's boat found in Amazonia river

  

  The boat British reporter Dom Phillips and local indigenist Bruno Araújo Pereira were riding when they were ambushed and killed on June 5 has been retrieved from the bottom of a river, Amazonas Civil Police announced Monday.

• Tuesday, June 21st 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  German “Green” minister admits electricity coal burning plants will have to go back into production

  

  Germany will have to increase the burning of coal for electricity production, because of the cut in gas supplies from Russia, economy minister Robert Habeck announced, despite his Greem party's policy favoring green energy and eliminating fossil fuel.

• Monday, June 20th 2022 - 20:42 UTC

  Third suspect arrested, five others at large in Phillips/Araújo murder

  

  Brazilian authorities have confirmed that following scientific assessments, British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenist expert Bruno Araújo Pereira were killed in Amazonia “with typical hunting ammunition.” Forensic experts also completed the identification of Pereira's body.

• Thursday, June 16th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Phillips and Araújo found dead in Amazonia – killers said to have confessed

  

  The bodies of British reporter Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araújo Pereira were found lifeless in Amazonia Wednesday while the two suspects arrested in connection with the case have reportedly confessed to committing the murders.

• Thursday, June 16th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  South Georgia launches Protect, Sustain, Inspire as part of its non native plant management strategy

  

  The control and management of non-native species is a key factor in ensuring that the island of South Georgia continues to be an ecosystem in recovery. Under the Protect, Sustain, Inspire framework, the Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI) has committed to comprehensive invasive plant management.

• Thursday, June 16th 2022 - 09:51 UTC

  Satellite images and artificial intelligence systems facilitate whales census and conservation work

  

  A new dataset featuring hundreds of satellite images of whales has been published to support the development of artificial intelligence systems which will aid crucial conservation work.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2022 - 22:01 UTC

  Brazilian Senate to oversee Amazonia investigations

  

  Brazil's Senate Monday approved an initiative to create a temporary committee to oversee the probe into the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips, a correspondent for The Guardian, and his indigenist guide Bruno Araújo Pereira, a National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) official on leave.

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 11:09 UTC

  BAS/South Georgia launch new data portal on one of the world's largest Marine Protected Areas

  

  A new Data Portal was launched on Friday by the British Antarctic Survey and the Government of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI), which will help to enhance the management of one of the world’s largest Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

• Saturday, June 11th 2022 - 10:00 UTC

  After five years of work, new seafloor map of the Southern Ocean covering 48 million sq Km

  

  A new map of the seafloor of the Southern Ocean surrounding Antarctica provides the most accurate representation of this vast area to date. The International Bathymetric Chart of the Southern Ocean (IBSCO) has taken five years to compile and update this map, which was first published in 2013.

• Friday, June 10th 2022 - 20:30 UTC

  NZ plans to tax breeders for livestock belches

  

  The Government of New Zealand has disclosed a plan to collect a tax on cow and sheep burps from livestock production which would become the first in the world to make producers pay for their animals' emissions.