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Stories for January 16th 2008

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    HMS Endurance breaks ice North of James Ross Island

    HMS Endurance<br>(Photo:Crown Copyright/MOD 2008).

    HMS ENDURANCE breaking through the ice North of James Ross Island, the ship is currently transferring scientist to Mount Haddington where they will be carrying out ice drilling for the next 2 months.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Chile fragile energy situation and new dams controversy

    Ed. Note: This opinion piece, which first appeared in the Chilean daily La Tercera, gives the background to Chile's looming energy problems and then proceeds to pitch the line that is touted by Chile's media and business establishment: “build dams in Chile's water-rich Patagonia area to solve the energy problem; build the HidroAysen project.” 'HidroAysen' is joint venture involving Spanish-Italian electricity giant Endesa and Chilean energy company Colbún.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    OPEC: no oil shortage; investors abandoning US dollar

    OPEC is ready to increase its output if the fundamentals of supply and demand justify such a move, but does not believe there is a current shortage of oil in the market, the cartel's secretary-general Abdallah el-Badri said on Wednesday.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Brazil extends one billion US dollars credit to Cuba

    Lula takes a shot of Cuban leader Fidel Castro

    Cuban leader Fidel Castro is lucid and healthy enough to resume a political role in Cuba, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Tuesday at the end of a 24 hours visit to the island during which ten bilateral agreements were signed.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Fossilized skull of largest rodent found in Uruguay

    Researchers discovered the skull of a one-ton, two million year old rodent in Uruguay

    The fossilized skull of the largest rodent ever recorded has been described by scientists for the first time. The remains of the one-ton beast, found in Uruguay, indicate that it would have been as big as a bull.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Three more bull market years for farm commodities

    Agricultural commodity prices will advance for at least three more years, bolstered by demand that's expanding faster than supply, according to a report by Jeffrey Currie from Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Toxic algae forces Uruguay to ban mollusk consumption

    Samples collected and analysed confirm the presence of red tide on the coasts of Rocha and Maldonado. (Photo: Dinara/FIS)

    Uruguay's Aquatic Resources Directorate (DINARA) on Tuesday extended for another ten days the ban on extraction, trade and transport of bivalve mollusks (mussels, cockles and clams) as the red tide continues to expand along the country's Atlantic coastline.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Energy and food push US inflation to highest in 17 years

    Inflation in United States for all of 2007 hit the highest rate for 17 years as surging energy and food costs pushed up prices according to the US Labor Department latest release.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Salmon disease and risky krill fishery, investors' nightmare

    Krill fishing vessel operating in the Antartica.<br> (Photo: Aker BioMarine)

    The Norwegian born shipping and salmon farming magnate, now living in Cyprus, Kjell Inge Røkke, not only has recorded heavy losses on his large share in the world's largest salmon farming company, Marine Harvest ASA.

  • Wednesday, January 16th 2008 - 20:00 UTC

    Aussie forfeited rogue longliner Viarsa broken up in India

    Australian officials ready to board the Uruguayan flag longliner

    Famed, controversial fishing vessel Viarsa was dismantled in a Mumbai, India ship breaking yard last December, Australian authorities confirmed this week. The Uruguayan-flagged, 65-metre longliner had played a singular role as the subject of the longest pursuit in Australian maritime history.

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