Tag: Atlantic Ocean

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 07:50 UTC

  HMS Scott, in four weeks, has record scanned an Atlantic Ocean area similar to that of Portugal

  

  The Royal Navy survey ship HMS Scott is on course to smash her record scanning the oceans after just the first four weeks of an epic 15-month deployment.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2021 - 09:48 UTC

  Macri charged with espionage against relatives of ARA San Juan crew

  

  Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri has been charged with espionage against the relatives of the doomed ARA San Juan submarine. Upon deciding the measure, Federal Judge Martín Bava Wednesday ruled the former head of state be banned from leaving the country.

• Wednesday, December 23rd 2020 - 08:16 UTC

  FAO report on the lanternfish in the deep Atlantic Ocean

  

  Deep below the Atlantic Ocean’s surface, glowing objects glide through the inky black depths. On closer inspection, it is clear that they are actually a special group of fish, lanternfish, who get their name from their incredible ability to produce light.

• Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  The Atlantic ocean first 200 meters water layer holds 12 to 21 million tons of micro plastic waste

  

  Researchers have made micro plastic measurements in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. In the first 200 meters of the water layer, they estimate that there are approximately 12 to 21 million tons of waste.

• Wednesday, August 19th 2020 - 09:19 UTC

  Some 21 million tons of micro plastic floating in the Atlantic ocean

  

  There are 12-21 million tons of tiny plastic fragments floating in the Atlantic Ocean, scientists have found. A study, led by the UK's National Oceanography Centre, scooped through layers of the upper 200m of the ocean during a research expedition through the middle of the Atlantic.

• Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Talks in Geneva for further remains identifications at the Falklands' Argentine military cemetery

  

  Argentina and the United Kingdom are holding talks in Geneva, with the International Red Cross for a new agreement on the identification of soldiers' remains in the Argentine Memorial cemetery at Darwin in the Falkland Islands, where there is still at least one grave with uncertainty as to the name/names of who are buried.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 08:51 UTC

  British Africa or South America? African Tourism Board welcomes St. Helena

  

  The African Tourism Board declares St. Helena as part of Africa and welcomes Destination Management Company Island Images as their first member on that remote British Island Territory in the Atlantic Ocean.

• Monday, July 15th 2019 - 10:54 UTC

  Argentina: The Minister of Defense will retire two senior officers for the ARA San Juan tragedy

  

  Argentina's defence minister, Oscar Aguad, will publish on Monday a summary prepared by the Mayor state of that country, Infobae reported, establishing the military responsibilities of the Navy in the sinking of the submarine ARA San Juan, found at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on November 2018, one year after its vanishing.

• Sunday, July 14th 2019 - 15:04 UTC

  Argentina condemns British MEP's likening foreign fishing to Belgrano sinking

  

  Argentina harshly condemned the “lamentable declarations of British MEP Robert Rowland” in which he threatened foreign fishing in the Falklands area with “the same treatment as the Belgrano,” in reference to the Argentine cruise sunk by the United Kingdom during the 1982 war.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 14:00 UTC

  All set for Montevideo to become Bolivia's access to the Atlantic Ocean

  

  Two riverboat shipping companies are interested in carrying cargo from Bolivia through the Paraná-Paraguay waterway to the port of Montevideo, Uruguay's National Ports Administration (ANP) president, Alberto Díaz, said Wednesday.