Health & Science

• Monday, November 5th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Citizens willing to accept sacrifices to curb climate change

  

  Canadians are among the world's leaders in being prepared to accept potential lifestyle changes and higher taxes in order to address climate change, according to a new poll released Monday.

• Sunday, November 4th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Heated controversy in Chile over the “morning after pill”

  

  Chile's National Association of Pharmaceutical Chains (Anacaf) met with Chile's Health Ministry (Minsal) this week to discuss fines imposed on those pharmacies that have refused to dispense emergency contraceptives to customers.

• Saturday, November 3rd 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Week of rain leaves a million homeless in Southern Mexico

  

  Massive flooding from a week of rain has forced hundreds of thousands of people in the Mexican state of Tabasco to abandon their homes and seek shelter from the muddy waters that on Friday covered an estimated 80% of this southeast Gulf state.

• Friday, November 2nd 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Bat-transmitted rabies in Uruguay - Brazil border

  

  Uruguay has ordered the vaccination of 90.000 livestock cattle in the border area with Brazil following an outbreak of bat-transmitted paralytic rabies that killed thirty head of cattle. Sanitary authorities have asked farmers and residents to help locate bat caves on both sides of the open frontier.

• Thursday, October 25th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Wind fanned wildfires scorch California, half million evacuees

  

  US President George W Bush has declared California a major disaster zone after four days of wildfires sparked the biggest evacuation since Hurricane Katrina. The fires have killed five people, injured 40 and burned 1.500 homes, causing an estimated one billion US dollars in damage.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Lack of water conditions future of Chile's mining industry

  

  Sergio Gonzalez, one of four Chileans working with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), warned this week that the economic future of Chile's mining industry cannot be sustained unless the nation deals seriously with its growing water shortage.

• Sunday, October 21st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Climate change helps spider specimen move to Magallanes region

  

  Climate change consequences in the entomologic field have reached Magallanes Region in the far south of Chile and local authorities are cautioning about the appearance of a small spider identified as the “false black widow”, which can be lethal for people suffering different allergies.

• Sunday, October 21st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  “Patagonia without dams” activists gather momentum

  

  One week after Chile's top environmentalists gathered in Santiago for the launch of a new book called “Patagonia Sin Represas” (Patagonia Without Dams), activists from Patagonia held a ground-level version of the event in Coyhaique, Region XI

• Friday, October 19th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Ozone layer hole perimeter closing in on Punta Arenas

  Since Wednesday this week Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile has been exposed to higher levels of ultra violet radiation because the perimeter of the ozone layer hole has moved over the region.

• Thursday, October 18th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Ozone hole smaller because of milder weather says UN

  

  Although the ozone layer over the Antarctic this year is relatively small, this is due to mild temperatures in the region's stratosphere this winter and is not a sign of recovery, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said Thursday.