Health & Science

• Tuesday, April 21st 2009 - 08:32 UTC

  Keep slim, help fight climate change, says Epidemiology Journal

  

  Getting back to the relatively slim, trim days of the 1970s would help to tackle climate change, researchers say. The rising numbers of people who are overweight and obese in the UK means the nation uses 19% more food than 40 years ago, a study suggests.

• Sunday, April 19th 2009 - 05:03 UTC

  Brazilian agriculture, world’s top consumers of pesticides

  

  Brazil became in 2008 the world's top consumer of agriculture pesticides (ahead of the US), and continues to use a range of dangerous pesticides banned in other countries, according to a study released Friday.

• Wednesday, April 15th 2009 - 05:08 UTC

  Germany bans GM maize; “scientific and not political” decision

  

  Germany is to ban the cultivation of genetically modified (GM) maize - the only GM crop widely grown in Europe. The decision, announced on Tuesday by German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner, is a blow to the US biotech firm Monsanto, which markets the maize.

• Monday, April 13th 2009 - 07:35 UTC

  Dengue in northeast Brazil has epidemic proportions

  

  The mosquito transmitted dengue disease which has ravaged Bolivia, Paraguay, North Argentina (and now threatens Buenos Aires) has also severely punished the Brazilian north-eastern state of Bahía where in the first quarter of this year, 40.000 cases have been confirmed and 32 deaths.

• Monday, April 13th 2009 - 07:26 UTC

  Darwin collected Uruguayan bird egg rediscovered in Cambridge

  

  On the 200 anniversary of Charles Darwin birth and in the same month of 1833, when HMS Beagle anchored in the Bay of Maldonado, Uruguay, a volunteer rediscovered in Cambridge a bird egg collected by the world famous scientist in Uruguay.

• Saturday, April 11th 2009 - 18:38 UTC

  Google uncloaks once-secret server

  

  Google is tight-lipped about its computing operations, but the company for the first time on Wednesday revealed the hardware at the core of its Internet might at a conference here about the increasingly prominent issue of data center efficiency.

• Thursday, April 9th 2009 - 12:56 UTC

  Argentina admits “very serious” dengue epidemics “which has come to stay”

  

  “Dengue is here to stay” in the Southern Cone and although not controllable it can be prevented , admitted Argentina’s Health Minister Graciela Ocaña as the mosquito transmitted disease reached metropolitan Buenos Aires following thousands of cases in the impoverished north which the government tried to downplay.

• Thursday, April 9th 2009 - 08:01 UTC

  Listeriosis outbreak in Santiago de Chile

  

  Santiago de Chile health officials promised information on the latest listeriosis outbreak in the metropolitan region with eight confirmed cases including one death and two miscarriages caused by the bacteria.

• Tuesday, April 7th 2009 - 12:23 UTC

  Latam: Chile Leads In Technology

  

  For the second year in a row, Chile leads in information and communication technology development in Latin America, according to the most recent report from the World Economic Forum.

• Monday, April 6th 2009 - 15:16 UTC

  LAN Airline Will Reduce Its CO2 Emissions

  

  Chilean-based LAN Airlines recently announced it will reduce the consumption of combustible fuel by 16.6 million gallons each year with the installation of “winglets” on all 37 of its Boeing 767-300 aircrafts as part of the airline’s endeavor to improve flight efficiency.