Tag: Enviroment

• Monday, July 9th 2018 - 08:11 UTC

  Rhino poachers end up eaten by a pride of lions in South African game reserve

  

  A shoe is all that is left of one of the poachers who broke into a South African game reserve to hunt rhinos, and ended up eaten by a pride of lions. At least three hunters are believed to have been devoured by the predators at the Sibuya Game Reserve near Kenton-on-Sea in Eastern Province, South Africa, earlier this week.

• Friday, July 6th 2018 - 08:24 UTC

  US EPA chief steps down following numerous scandals and ethics violations

  

  United States Embattled Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has resigned after fighting numerous scandals and alleged ethics violations. “The unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us,” Pruitt wrote in his resignation letter to President Donald Trump on Thursday.

• Saturday, June 23rd 2018 - 08:54 UTC

  Seabirds starving to death because of plastic pollution reveals documentary

  

  New footage of the devastating impact of plastic pollution on wildlife has been captured by a BBC team. Seabirds are starving to death on the remote Lord Howe Island, a crew filming for the BBC One documentary Drowning in Plastic has revealed. Their stomachs were so full of plastic there was no room for food.

• Monday, June 4th 2018 - 08:22 UTC

  Pilot whale dies in Thailand after swallowing eighty plastic bags

  

  A pilot whale has died off southern Thailand after swallowing 80 plastic bags, Thai marine officials say. The whale vomited five bags during a vain attempt by conservation officials to save it in a canal in Songkhla province.

• Tuesday, May 29th 2018 - 09:14 UTC

  Smog emergency in Santiago de Chile for the fifth day running

  

  Santiago de Chile is under a smog emergency for the fifth day running because of the poor quality of air, as reported by the local authorities of the Chilean capital. For this reason 40% of vehicles without catalytic convertors, and with plate numbers ending in 0,1,2 or 3 are banned from circulating in the city. Likewise motorcycles manufactured before 2002 and with plate numbers ending in 0 and 1.

• Friday, May 18th 2018 - 08:19 UTC

  Europe's top court rules in favor of bees banning three insecticides

  

  The EU's top court has backed an almost complete EU-wide ban on the use of three insecticides, which studies have linked to declining bee populations. Chemicals giants Bayer and Syngenta had gone to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) hoping to get the restrictions on neo-nicotinoids overturned.

• Thursday, May 17th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

  Someone is cheating with ozone warn scientists: rate of decline has fallen drastically

  

  The decline in the atmosphere of an ozone-depleting chemical banned by the Montreal Protocol has recently slowed by half, suggesting a serious violation of the 196-nation treaty, researchers revealed Wednesday.

• Wednesday, May 16th 2018 - 09:02 UTC

  ILO annual report: Climate change combat could create millions of new job opportunities

  

  Its forecast that 24 million new posts “will be created globally by 2030”, contains the caveat that “the right policies to promote a greener economy” must also be in place for this to happen, along with better social safety nets for workers.

• Tuesday, May 1st 2018 - 10:15 UTC

  Falkland Islands Government Partnership with local Environmental NGO Updated

  

  The Falklands Islands Government have just recently finalized a review process of their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Falklands Conservation, a local environmental NGO. This is an important partnership for the Government and has been in place 2006 on a formal basis.

• Monday, April 30th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Major wind and flash rains storm hits Buenos Aires: two dead and 100.000 homes with no power

  

  A man and his teenage son died with electrocution during a storm that struck Buenos Aires City and the metropolitan area on Sunday dawn and morning. Winds blowing at over 130 kilometers and massive rainfall, 120 millimeters, caused the collapse of roofs and publicity billboards, trees and lamp posts were knocked down, plus extensive flooding and power cuts that affected thousands of clients. An estimated 2.500 people had to be evacuated and even more had to abandon their homes.