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Tag: environment

  • Sunday, August 22nd 2010 - 04:23 UTC

    Massive loss of pilot whales stranded on New Zealand beach

    Dozens of rescuers tried to re-float the whales

    Only nine of the 63 pilot whales which were found stranded on a beach of New Zealand’s northern island on Friday are believed to have survived. Thirteen whales were re-floated Saturday but four of them got back into difficulty and NZ Department of Conservation staff made the tough decision to euthanize them.

  • Tuesday, July 20th 2010 - 04:12 UTC

    Russians exposed to the worst heat wave in 130 years

    Young girls cool off in a fountain. Moscow has recorded 38 degrees Celsius

    Russia is going through its worst drought in more than a century. In Moscow, it’s hotter than in European and African resorts. The heat has caused asphalt to melt, boosted sales of air conditioners, ventilators, ice cream and beverages, and pushed grain prices up. Environmentalists are blaming the abnormally dry spell on climate change.

  • Saturday, May 15th 2010 - 13:56 UTC

    Antarctic Treaty Governments Progress on Climate Change and Marine Protected

    Areas: Fail on Biological Prospecting, Polar Code and Tourism

    Punta del Este, Uruguay. Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition welcomed steps at the 33rd Antarctic Treaty meeting to make climate change a major item on the agenda, and to keep momentum going on a network of Marine Protected Areas in the Southern Ocean.

  • Monday, May 10th 2010 - 18:38 UTC

    Chile Embroiled in Whaling Conservation Controversy

    Cristian Maquieira is IWC chairman but is also an active Chilean ambassador

    Chilean Foreign Minister, Alfredo Moreno, said that Chile will maintain a position “in favour of conservation and against whaling,” and that Chilean Ambassador Cristián Maquieira, though he now chairs the International Whaling Commission, “is not the person who represents Chile” in this forum.

  • Tuesday, May 4th 2010 - 04:15 UTC

    Seafood Prices May Rocket Due to Louisiana Oil Slick; Ten Day Fishing Ban In

    Louisiana’s sea food industry supplies one third of US oyster production

    United States officials have announced a ban on fishing for at least ten days in waters off Louisiana spanning to parts of the Florida panhandle as the oil slick from a leak spreads across the Gulf of Mexico. Rough weather conditions are complicating crews’ efforts to contain the oil slick.

  • Monday, May 3rd 2010 - 07:49 UTC

    Organizers Confirm Argentina and Chile will Host the 2011 Dakar Rally

    Over 300 drivers are expected to compete in the long distance endurance race

    Organizers have unveiled the route for the 2011 Dakar Rally which will start and finish in Argentina’s capital Buenos Aires and include a section through Chile. The 33rd edition of the “the world's toughest motor-sport event” will be the third to be run in South America after concerns about terrorists moved the rally in 2009 from its traditional route through the Sahara desert in North Africa.

  • Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 08:08 UTC

    As BP Oil Spill Advances; Florida Declares State of Emergency

    Experts have been unable so far to cap the ruptured underwater well

    State of Florida Governor Charlie Crist declared on Friday a state of emergency in coastal counties because of the threat from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 03:50 UTC

    Lab Production of Green Hamburgers is “No Longer Science Fiction”

    Jason Matheny from New Harvest, one of the sponsors of the new technology

    The lab production of meat without the need of slaughtering animals is no longer science fiction and could be producing “green” hamburgers in less than ten years according to the list of Time Magazine fifty main inventions of the year.

  • Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 02:20 UTC

    Japan Issues Arrest Warrant for Head of Anti-Whaling Sea Shepherd

    Paul Watson, founder and president of Sea Shepherd

    Japan’s Coast Guard has obtained an arrest warrant for the head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, accusing him of ordering members of the protest group to obstruct the Japanese whaling fleet, investigative sources said Friday.

  • Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 00:59 UTC

    Iceland Displeased with Whale Hunting Quota Threatens to Pull Out of IWC

    Conservation of whales remains a highly controversial issue

    Twelve member countries of the International Whaling Commission (IWC)—an 88-country organization created in 1946 to monitor the whaling industry—have proposed catch quotas for the next ten years for countries that hunt whales.