Tag: Climate change

• Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 10:01 UTC

  Johnson thanks Chile for supporting UK access to the Trans Pacific trade partnership

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke this week to the Chilean President Gabriel Boric and both leaders reaffirmed trade relations and the long standing defense relationship.

• Thursday, April 28th 2022 - 09:54 UTC

  Scientists find never-changing ice island in Antarctica

  

  Climate change has been confirmed once more to be taking its toll on Earth's shape as an ice island has been discovered in Antarctica which has stayed unchanged even in the presence of bypassing icebergs and other phenomena, according to NASA data.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Record wildfires and floods in Europe's 2021 summer, the hottest on record

  

  Europe experienced the hottest summer on record in 2021, according to EU scientists in their Copernicus Climate Change Service report. The temperature in Europe was one degree Celsius above the 1991-2020 average.

• Monday, April 25th 2022 - 09:23 UTC

  Efficiency of peat ecosystems helping contain climate change, underlined by Chile at the Venice Biennal

  

  Peat and peat bogs are the most efficient ecosystem to fix and accumulate atmosphere carbon but are one of the least researched, according to the Chilean pavilion which opened last week at the Venice Biennal.

• Tuesday, April 19th 2022 - 20:01 UTC

  Antarctic sea ice reaches all-time low, according to new scientific report

  

  A new scientific report has shown that the icy mass in Antarctica has shrunk below 1.4 million square kilometers for the first time since measurements began being recorded in 1978.

• Tuesday, April 12th 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  Chile: Santiago braces for emergency water rationing

  

  Local authorities in the Chilean capital have announced a water-rationing program to cope with shortages stemming from 13-year-old droughts, it was announced Monday in Santiago.

• Monday, April 11th 2022 - 09:40 UTC

  Former CAF, OAS agree on climate action and biodiversity agenda

  

  The Organization of American States (OAS) and the Development Bank of Latin America -formerly known as Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF)- have signed a memorandum of understanding whereby both institutions pledged to tackle environmental and climate issues together, it was announced.

• Saturday, April 9th 2022 - 15:44 UTC

  Atmospheric methane on the rise, NOAA warns

  

  The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the US Department of Commerce has warned that the presence of methane reached new highs in 2021.

• Thursday, April 7th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Uruguay takes action as climate change threatens waters will advance on coastline

  

  Uruguay's Environment Ministry has launched the National Climate Change Adaptation Plan for the Coastal Zone (PAN Costas) to increase resilience to a rise in the level of the sea, resulting from climate change.

• Thursday, March 31st 2022 - 10:15 UTC

  International team researching complex pattern of sea ice around Antarctica

  

  A £5m project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to investigate the complex changes seen in sea ice around the Antarctic begins this month (March 2022) as the sea ice extent around the continent drops to a record low level.