Health & Science

• Sunday, September 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Magallanes has fastest ageing population in Chile

  Magallanes Region has the fastest ageing population in Chile with 17.3% of its residents over 60 and also the highest number of single over 60 households in spite of the fact the region has the second highest per capita income of the country.

• Sunday, September 30th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Ozone layer hole reaches outskirts of Punta Arenas

  

  Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile, over the weekend and for another couple of days, is estimated to be in the edge of the Antarctic ozone layer hole significantly increasing risks to human beings and living things.

• Wednesday, September 26th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  “We need an internal climate change at the United Nations”

  

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened his first annual debate of the General Assembly with a call to global leaders to back his efforts to bolster the United Nations in the interests of the world.

• Tuesday, September 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UN chief calls for global action on climate change

  

  UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that a 15-year international effort to stem global warming has not halted the buildup of greenhouse gas emissions and that governments must take “unprecedented action” to reverse the trend.

• Monday, September 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  First bluetongue case in England; fears of more FAM

  

  Beleaguered British farmers suffering after several outbreaks of foot-and-mouth face a second threat as a new livestock virus, bluetongue, claimed the life of a Highland cow in Suffolk, east England.

• Monday, September 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Uruguay among the world's top ten greenest countries

  

  Uruguay is South America most environmentally friendly country and together with Australia are the only two from the Southern Hemisphere to rank among the world's top ten greenest and most livable, according to a list published by Readers' Digest.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Experts Confirm Meteorite Crash in Peru

  

  A fiery meteorite crashed into southern Peru over the weekend, experts confirmed Wednesday, but they were still puzzling over claims that it gave off fumes that sickened 200 people.

• Friday, September 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Second UK FAM outbreak in a week triggers controversy

  

  A second outbreak of foot and mouth disease has been confirmed in Britain at a Stroude Farm, Egham, near the scene of the previous outbreak discovered on Wednesday in Surrey.

• Friday, September 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Shrinking Artic ice makes Northwest Passage “fully navigable”

  

  The area covered by sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk to its lowest level this week since satellite measurements began nearly 30 years ago, opening up the Northwest Passage – a long-sought short cut between Europe and Asia that has been historically impassable, the European Space Agency.

• Friday, September 14th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UN moves to advance ozone layer protection treaty by 10 years

  

  As representatives from almost 200 Governments prepare to gather next week in Montreal, Canada on the 20th anniversary of the United Nations-backed treaty to protect the world's ozone layer, a senior UN official today called for intensified action to eliminate the use of hydro chlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) which damage it.