SANTIAGO – A large iceberg has broken off the Grey glacier in southern Chile in a rare incident in two decades. Grey glacier is located in the Southern Patagonian ice field, just west of the […]
MEXCIO CITY – The Mexican government has created a large marine reserve around a group of islands home to hundreds of species including rays, whales and sea turtles. Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto designated on […]
SANTIAGO – Chile’s government is struggling to control a growing number of new HIV cases, which have doubled over the past decade. Today about 25,000 people are being treated for the virus in Chile, and […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Obesity is one of the main risk factors for diabetes. In the Americas, the percentage of adults who are obese is more than twice the world average, with more women affected than […]
SANTIAGO – Marine conservation organization Oceana has called out to national authorities to urgently implement a national traceability plan for fishery products, after television program Misión Encubierta (Undercover Mission) aired an investigative report titled “Something […]
TOKYO – A female bottlenose dolphin has died at a Japanese aquarium only weeks after breaking a national record of more than four decades in captivity. Nana, who was thought to be around 47 years […]
BERLIN – At least six people have been killed in Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic after powerful storms wreaked havoc in parts of central and northern Europe. The victims included a 63-year-old camper who […]
BONN, Germany – Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are making oceans more acidic and threatening all sea life, a new scientific report claims. The eight-year study, called the “Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification” and part of […]
SANTIAGO – The environmental organization, Greenpeace, has boosted a campaign to create the largest marine protected area in the world, 1.8 million square kilometers, in Antarctica. In a press release issued yesterday, Greenpeace said that […]
SANTIAGO – The Admiralty Sound (Seno Almirantazgo) will become the first Multiple Use Marine Coastal Protected Area (AMP-MU) in the Chilean province of Tierra del Fuego. Bárbara Saavedra, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), […]
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