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Montevideo, May 6th 2024 - 04:06 UTC

Tag: South Atlantic

  • Thursday, November 19th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

    Fishermen cut beaks off albatrosses in south-west Atlantic fisheries

    A series of examples of mutilated seabirds, both dead and alive, documented by the team of researchers.

    A new study has documented a harrowing but increasingly prevalent trend, in which fishermen cut the bills off live albatrosses in order to free them from hooks. Once this barbaric procedure has been performed, trawlermen throw the endangered seabirds back into the ocean to die.

  • Wednesday, November 18th 2020 - 09:58 UTC

    Uruguay authorities pledge to improve conditions for Spanish fishing vessels in port of Montevideo

    El Faro de Vigo reported that at the end of the squid season in the Falklands several vessels avoided Montevideo, involving thousands of tons

    Uruguayan authorities have pledged to respond to complaints from the Spanish fleet fishing in the South Atlantic and which normally operates from the port of Montevideo where they call for supplies and cargo transshipments.

  • Thursday, November 5th 2020 - 09:04 UTC

    Jumbo iceberg, size of Somerset County, heading for South Georgia

    Satellite imagery suggests A68a could be on a direct path for South Georgia, but it could continue north.

    An iceberg is heading towards the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. A68a – the size of the UK county of Somerset (4,200 sq km) broke off from the Larsen C ice shelf in 2017 and has been drifting north ever since. If it becomes grounded near the island, it could cause disruption to the local wildlife that forage in the food-rich ocean.

  • Wednesday, November 4th 2020 - 08:23 UTC

    Gentoo penguins are four species, not one, say scientists

    “The four species we propose live in quite different latitudes”

    By University of Bath – Gentoo penguins should be reclassified as four separate species, say scientists at the Milner Centre for Evolution at the University of Bath, after analyzing the genetic and physical differences between populations around the southern hemisphere.

  • Tuesday, October 27th 2020 - 08:25 UTC

    Falklands and privateer/pirate captain David Jewett 1820 adventure

    According to historian Dr. Graham Pascoe, Argentina did not instruct Captain David Jewett to take possession of the Falklands

    In response to Argentina’s planned commemorations of the 200th anniversary of the visit to the Falklands by the privateer captain David Jewett in 1820 and his purported “taking of possession” of the Islands for Argentina, historian Graham Pascoe has released the paper ‘David Jewett’s visit to the Falklands, 1820-21: no valid “possession-taking.” Dr. Pascoe notes in his abstract that before David Jewett arrived he had captured a neutral Portuguese ship, and he captured another neutral US ship in the Islands.

  • Monday, October 26th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

    Researcher study of seabird ecosystem shift in the Falklands

    To understand how Falklands' seabirds might cope in a warmer climate, scientists set out to study the history of climate change and ecological changes on Islands

    Roughly 5,000 years ago, seabirds colonized the Falkland Islands in record numbers. The new research – published in the journal Science Advances – suggests the seabirds arrived around the same time that the South Atlantic cooled, and their arrival shifted the ecosystems on the Falkland Islands.

  • Wednesday, September 30th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

    UK considered building asylum processing centers in Ascension and St Helena

    In the end, it appears that Ms Patel decided not to go ahead with the scheme, however the Home Office made no attempt to deny the idea had been considered.

    British Home Secretary Priti Patel ordered officials to explore plans for building an asylum processing centre on a remote volcanic island in the south Atlantic – more than 4,000 miles from the UK, it has been reported.

  • Monday, September 21st 2020 - 09:09 UTC

    Beware: Chinese company with ten new state of the art planning to operate in SW Atlantic Ocean

    The new vessels are all large-scale squid jigging vessels of 65.16 meters long and with 1,227 gross tonnage

    Pingtan Marine Engineering Ltd., a global fishing company based in the People's Republic of China, announced over the weekend that the Company's 10 new squid jigging vessels have left the port of Shidao in Weihai in the morning of September 15 local time and are sailing towards their designated fishing areas in the international waters for operations.

  • Monday, August 31st 2020 - 09:37 UTC

    A Visitor's Guide: Frequently Asked Questions Where is South Georgia?

    King penguins at St Andrews Bay, South Georgia. [IAN PARKER, UNSPLASH]

    South Georgia is situated 800 miles SE of the Falkland Islands. The main island of South Georgia is approximately 170 km long and between 2 and 40 km wide and occupies an area of 3,755 km2, more than half of which is permanently ice covered. The coast is rich in wildlife and home to huge collies of penguins, seals and albatross.

  • Saturday, August 22nd 2020 - 08:01 UTC

    South Atlantic Anomaly and Evolving Dent in Earth’s Magnetic Field

    A fairly well-known phenomenon called South Atlantic Anomaly refers to the unusually weak magnetic field over S. America and the southern Atlantic Ocean

    A dent in the protective shield sounds scary for any person, but what are the scientists talking about when they say South Atlantic Anomaly? The researchers from the US space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), recently noticed a growing dent in the Earth’s magnetic field over South America. And the news has caught on like wildfire across the digital community.