Environment

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:30 UTC

  Brazil opens situation room to monitor acute hepatitis

  

  Brazilian health authorities have established during the weekend a monitoring room to oversee the development nationwide of the worrying acute hepatitis of unknown origin among children, of which the country has already reported 47 cases under study.

• Tuesday, May 17th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Macron picks France's Prime Minister

  

  French President Emmanuel Macron Monday announced he had picked Elisabeth Borne as the country's new Prime Minister following Jean Castex's resignation.

• Monday, May 16th 2022 - 01:16 UTC

  Falklands prepares for the Big Plastic Count, starting next week

  

  Next week (16th-22nd May), Falkland Islands residents should consider taking part in Falkland Conservation’s Big Plastic Count. Inspired by Greenpeace's plastic count in the UK, Falklands Conservation are launching an island-wide survey with the aim of recording all plastic used by Falklands residents in just one week.

• Saturday, May 14th 2022 - 07:45 UTC

  Merchant Navy cadets join RRS Sir David Attenborough in the Falklands for training deployment

  

  Four Trinity House Merchant Navy Cadets are joining Britain’s new polar research vessel RRS Sir David Attenborough this week in the Falkland Islands on a four-month training deployment.

• Thursday, May 12th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Chile's Lower House passes Escazú treaty bill

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Wednesday praised his country's Lower House for approving the Escazú 'green' treaty, which he said was “a milestone” in the path towards a new relationship “between the State and its inhabitants in environmental matters.”

• Wednesday, May 11th 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  World heading for warmest year on record in the next quinquennium 2022/26, WMO report

  

  There is a 50:50 chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial level for at least one of the next five years – and the likelihood is increasing with time, according to a new climate update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

• Friday, May 6th 2022 - 09:22 UTC

  Cattle methane gas from belching and flatulence measured from space

  

  Scientists have managed to measure the belching and flatulence of cattle from space. This is considered important since the International Agency of Energy and the US Department of Agriculture estimate that methane from cows' burps and farts has a great influence on climate change and global warming.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 - 20:00 UTC

  Climate change has NZ sinking - floods to become routine events

  

  Climate change is taking its toll as the sea keeps crawling onto New Zealand's sinking coastline, halving the time authorities thought they had to take action, according to an NZ SeaRise study released earlier this week.

• Tuesday, May 3rd 2022 - 08:59 UTC

  IAATO appoints Tudor Morgan as chair of the organization

  

  The International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) has appointed Executive Committee member Tudor Morgan to its leading role. Tudor, VP Government and Industry relations at IAATO member operator Hurtigruten Expeditions, takes the reins from Robyn Woodhead, who steps down after five years on the EC, the last one as chair.

• Friday, April 29th 2022 - 09:45 UTC

  Ocean life to disappear if climate change not addressed, study warns

  

  According to the findings of a study published Thursday in Science, if climate change is not curbed in time, the oceans will suffer a mass extinction as they did some 65 million years ago in the Cretaceous period when a meteorite and volcanoes wiped out life on Earth.