ENVIRONMENT Scientists reveal impact of climate change on Antarctic phytoplankton 18-02-2021 23:52 Argentine scientists reveal that rising temperatures and diminished salinity have altered phytoplankton in the Antarctic.
Biodiversity Economic growth has 'devastating cost to nature', review finds 02-02-2021 09:17 Humanity's unbridled growth in recent decades has come at a "devastating cost to nature" according a wide-ranging international review on the vital economic role played by our living planet.
Solar eclipse Solar eclipse plunges southern Chile, Argentina into darkness 14-12-2020 20:36 Despite Covid-19 restrictions on movement, almost 300,000 tourists arrived in the Araucania region of Chile on Monday to witness the solar eclipse.
FLAMES RAGE New forest fires rip through Córdoba Province 22-09-2020 18:19 Forest fires ripped through Córdoba Province on Monday night, sparking dozens of evacuations and leaving at least two firefighters with severe burns.
ENVIRONMENT World isn't meeting any biodiversity goals, UN report finds 15-09-2020 15:29 Countries are set to miss all of the targets they set themselves a decade ago to preserve nature and save Earth's vital biodiversity, the United Nations said Tuesday.
Virus impact on nature As people stay home, Earth turns wilder and cleaner 22-04-2020 14:12 When people stay home, Earth becomes cleaner and wilder.
Environment 'Green favela' fights to live sustainably in Brazil 10-03-2020 21:40 On the outskirts of São Paulo, a concrete jungle of 12 million people, the impoverished community of Vila Nova Esperanca is fighting to be a model of sustainable living.
ENVIRONMENT Australian government agency lowers Great Barrier Reef outlook to 'very poor' 30-08-2019 12:26 The government agency that manages Australia's Great Barrier Reef has downgraded its outlook for the corals' condition from "poor" to "very poor" due to warming oceans.
BLOOMBERG – FEATURE Chile's glaciers may have a bigger problem than climate change 15-08-2019 10:34 Chile has one of the world’s largest reserves of fresh water outside the north and south poles, but the abundant glaciers that are the source of that precious commodity are melting fast. That’s not just an ecological disaster in the making – it’s rapidly becoming an economic and political dilemma for the government of Latin America’s richest nation.