Health & Science

• Friday, August 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  FAO rescues Peruvian alpacas suffering from cold spell

  

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has provided urgently needed medical supplies to poor farmers in the Peruvian highlands whose livestock are suffering as a result of a severe unseasonable cold spell, known locally as “El friaje.”

• Wednesday, July 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Huge plaques break off from Canadian ice shelf in Arctic

  

  A chunk of ice spreading across 18 square kilometers has broken off a Canadian ice shelf in the Arctic, scientists say. The sheet broke away last week from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf off the north coast of Ellesmere Island in Canada's far north.

• Saturday, July 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Bolivia to fight cocaine trade with its own funds

  

  Bolivia, the world's No. 3 cocaine producer, will fund an anti-narcotics unit for the first time next year as it seeks to reduce foreign involvement in fighting trafficking, an official said yesterday.

• Saturday, July 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Southern Chile's Chaiten Volcano still erupting

  

  Southern Chile's Chaiten Volcano, which erupted in early May for the first time in recorded history, is once again making its presence felt.

• Friday, July 25th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Environmentalists' concern with Chilean leg of Dakar rally

  

  Chilean environmentalists and public figures this week expressed concern about potential environmental threats posed by the Dakar off-roading rally, scheduled to be held in Chile and Argentina in January.

• Monday, July 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  World experts discuss rapid wetlands disappearance

  

  Experts from all over the world are discussing in Brazil about the rapid disappearance of the world's wetlands and its potential effect on global warming. The event organized by United Nations and Brazil's Federal University of Matto Grosso are taking place in Matto Grosso, next to what is considered the world's largest wetlands in the heart of South America, the Pantanal.

• Monday, July 21st 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Patagonia's massive dam project protest reaches Spain

  

  Greenpeace activists on Monday morning brought their concerns over a controversial Spain's Endesa HidroAysen dam project in Chilean Patagonia directly to the company's doorstep, scaling its headquarters building in Madrid, draping an attention-grabbing, several-story-high protest banner, reports Patagonia Times.

• Saturday, July 19th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Over 1.200 Chileans flloded out of homes in South

  As rain continues to pour on Chile's central and southern regions this week, more than 1.200 people were forced to flee their towns in southern Chile, as of Thursday, when their homes were flooded.

• Friday, July 18th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Meteorite trail surprises P. Arenas and Tierra del Fuego

  It is almost confirmed that the bright flash seen last Monday night in great parts of Magallaes region, included Tierra del Fuego in the extreme south of Chile was a meteorite.

• Monday, July 14th 2008 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay Botnia pulp mill has not affected air and water quality

  

  An international report on the environmental performance of the Botnia pulp plant in Uruguay, since its opening last November, indicates no quality modifications to the air or water of the River Uruguay next to which the huge Finnish owned complex has been built.