Environment

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Argentina announces the construction of labs in Antarctica to reaffirm science and sovereignty

  

  Argentina will create “Antarctic Multidisciplinary Laboratories” to further promote research in the country's bases in the white continent, in the framework of the program “Building Science”. The program is sponsored by the ministries of Foreign Affairs; Science, Technology and Innovation, and Defense, and has specific funds earmarked.

• Thursday, August 11th 2022 - 08:23 UTC

  Chile and UK discuss green energy cooperation and delivery of ex-RAF Sentry aircraft

  

  Chilean foreign minister Antonia Urrejola received the British Ambassador in Santiago, Louise de Sousa to address several issues of the bilateral agenda, particularly referred to green energies.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2022 - 08:37 UTC

  “Laughable advice from utilities to save water instead of showers,” UK customers

  

  Water supplies in the UK have been seriously reduced because of recent heat waves and a lack of rain forcing some utilities to introduce hosepipe bans in some areas to save water resources.

• Monday, August 8th 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  Pilcomayo river under environmental threat in northern Argentina

  

  Authorities in the Argentine province of Salta have issued a recommendation not to bathe, fish, or drink water from the Pilcomayo river pending studies undertaken by the Secretariat of Water Resources after the collapse of a dam in Bolivia.

• Saturday, August 6th 2022 - 05:07 UTC

  Deforestation of Brazilian Amazon still high despite ongoing decline

  

  According to satellite imagery data released Friday, deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon remained high despite a slight decline.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:37 UTC

  South Georgia consultation period for Special Protected Area Management Plan

  

  The Government of South Georgia & the South Sandwich Islands has announced the opening of the consultation period for the Specially Protected Area Management Plan and Regulations.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2022 - 08:32 UTC

  Argentina and Chile lobby for a Marine Protected Area west of Antarctica Peninsula

  

  Argentine and Chilean relations have not been traditionally smooth given the several borderline disputes both in land and in the sea, but there is a chance that this rivalry turns into a biodiversity milestone, with the joint proposal to create a Marine Protected Area in waters next to west Antarctica Peninsula and south of the Scotia arc, a project in which the Chilean Antarctic Institute and Argentina's Antarctic Institute have been working on since 2012.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 09:48 UTC

  Increased levels of fluorinated chemicals in Antarctic snow cores, scientific research

  

  Scientists have recorded markedly increased levels of ‘fluorinated forever chemicals’ in Antarctic snow which are thought to have originated from the use of CFC-replacements.

• Tuesday, August 2nd 2022 - 08:56 UTC

  Japanese whaling industry on the brink of collapse: less demand, less subsidies for whale meat

  

  The whaling industry in Japan is on the brink of collapse as young generations tastes have rapidly changed and government subsidies are beginning to shrink. The industry employed thousands of people in the decades immediately after World War II, and sustained entire communities during those difficult economic times, is today losing the government subsidies that has kept it afloat.

• Thursday, July 28th 2022 - 22:03 UTC

  Bolsonaro lashes back at DiCaprio over social media postings

  

  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro once again aimed his cannons at US actor Leonardo DiCaprio for his denunciations of the devastation of the Amazon.