Environment

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:24 UTC

  Research and Monitoring Plan for South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area

  

  A new Research and Monitoring Plan has been launched to help support the management of the South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area, MPA. The announcement was done in the January edition of the Sough Georgia Newsletter.

• Wednesday, January 26th 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  Spatial Segregation of Seabirds at South Georgia

  

  The latest edition of the South Georgia Newsletter refers to seabirds, which are amongst the most globally threatened birds, often as a consequence of incidental mortality (bycatch) in fisheries. At South Georgia, wandering albatrosses have declined since the 1970s, and are listed by the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) as one of nine global High-Priority populations for conservation.

• Tuesday, January 25th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Climate change concern: Gentoo colonies moving further south

  

  By Laura Geggel – Scientists have discovered a previously unknown colony of gentoo penguins in one of the southernmost spots these waddling birds have ever been spotted. The discovery is a cause for concern, according to the researchers, who say that climate change is expanding the range of this temperate, non-ice-loving species of penguin.

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 20:35 UTC

  Colombia launches new stage of Operation Artemisa

  

  Colombian President Iván Duque announced the extension of Operation Artemisa, a scheme devised to protect Colombian seas from illegal fishing while standing up for biodiversity in national waters.

• Monday, January 24th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Peruvian scientists contradict Repsol's account for the oil spill at sea

  

  A report issued by Peru's Supervisory Body for Investment in Energy and Mining (Osinergmin) has found that “anomalous waves” were not the cause for the major oil spill off the coast of Ventanilla.

• Saturday, January 22nd 2022 - 10:56 UTC

  The drifting giant A68 iceberg released billions of tons of fresh water in South Georgia ecosystem

  

  Scientists monitoring the giant A68a iceberg from space reveal that a huge amount of freshwater was released as it melted around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. An estimated 152 billion tons of freshwater – equivalent to 20 x Loch Ness or 61 million Olympic sized swimming pools, entered the seas around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia when A68a melted over three months in 2020/2021, according to a new study published this month by the British Antarctic Survey.

• Friday, January 21st 2022 - 09:05 UTC

  Let us celebrate Penguin Awareness Day with Falklands one of the world's great penguin capitals

  

  Penguin Awareness Day is celebrated annually on the 20th of January and this year was on Thursday. The founder of Penguin Awareness Day is unknown, and there is no information on when this day was first celebrated.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:53 UTC

  Peru wants Repsol to pay damages for oil spill amid Tonga volcano eruption

  

  Peru's Foreign Ministry Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Spanish oil company Repsol for damages caused by a spill in Ventanilla, in the province Callao province.

• Thursday, January 20th 2022 - 09:52 UTC

  Tonga vulcano eruption 500 times stronger than Hiroshima bomb

  

  A NASA scientist has compared this weekend's volcanic eruption off Tonga with the atomic bomb dropped by the United States at the Japanese city of Hiroshima in 1945 and said the recent episode was “500 times” worse.

• Tuesday, January 18th 2022 - 09:49 UTC

  New major volcanic eruption detected in Tonga

  

  Two days after a first volcanic eruption not far from Tonga led to the death of two women in Peru, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center detected large waves in the area, which “could be from another explosion,” it was reported.