Environment

• Monday, March 21st 2022 - 09:20 UTC

  South Orkney Sunshine glacier shrunk one seventh in 20 years, HMS Protector confirms

  

  The Royal Navy’s polar research ship HMS Protector found an enormous Antarctic glacier vanishing at an alarming rate. The mighty Sunshine Glacier has shrunk by one-seventh in 20 years – an area the size of more than 130 football pitches has melted away.

• Saturday, March 19th 2022 - 10:10 UTC

  Chile: Boric signs environmental agreement Piñera had discarded

  

  Chile's President Gabriel Boric Font Friday signed the so-called Escazú environmental agreement, which his predecessor Sebastián Piñera discarded at the last minute after having sponsored it. “We have changed course,” Boric said.

• Saturday, March 12th 2022 - 06:02 UTC

  New research shows that slow growth in Antarctic fish is linked to problems making proteins

  

  Antarctic fish have adapted over millennia to survive in the freezing temperatures of the Southern Ocean but in doing so have lost their ability to grow at rates seen in their warmer water cousins.  Researchers have now discovered the cellular causes of this crucial difference between Antarctic and warm water fish.

• Friday, March 11th 2022 - 09:29 UTC

  Native Brazilians to tell UN violence, illegal mining on the rise

  

  Groups of native Brazilians are to appear before the Human Rights Council of the United Nations (UN) to condemn the increase of illegal mining and violence in their communities, including death threats, raids, and forced displacements, the Missionary Indigenous Council (CIMI) announced this week.

• Friday, March 11th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Machu Picchu ruins to remain open during declaration of emergency

  

  Peruvian authorities have guaranteed tourist services are to remain operational in Machu Picchu despite the recent declaration of emergency by the federal government.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 09:56 UTC

  Severe drought impacts on Argentine corn and soybean crop estimates

  

  Argentina’s corn 2021/22 crop has now been estimated at less than the 48 million tons of just a few weeks ago, according to the Rosario grains exchange, because a severe drought has slashed yields. Likewise with soybeans first estimate of 40,5 million tons.

• Wednesday, March 9th 2022 - 09:36 UTC

  Global carbon emissions reach all-time high in 2021 after COVID-19

  

  The International Energy Agency (IEA) Tuesday warned through a statement that “global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose to their highest level ever in 2021 as economies recovered from the coronavirus pandemic and coal use increased.”

• Tuesday, March 8th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Floods leave at least 20 dead in Sydney

  

  Thousands of Sydney residents have been told by Tuesday to evacuate their homes after the death toll from floods reached 20 along Australia's east coast, it was reported.

• Monday, March 7th 2022 - 09:27 UTC

  Mayan Train poses environmental threat to southern Mexico

  

  Environmentalist groups in Mexico have raised objections to one of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's (AMLO) most publicized works - the Mayan train - is devastating huge swathes of virgin jungles.

• Friday, March 4th 2022 - 18:40 UTC

  Fertilizer emergency in Brazil: plan to cur dependency and promote production

  

  Brazil will be launching this month an ambitious national plan to stimulate investment in the country's fertilizer industry, cutting on foreign dependency now worsened by the Ukrainian war and shipping difficulties.