Health & Science

• Tuesday, August 28th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UK embassy sponsored seminar addresses climate change

  

  Climate change, and its economic impact was pushed onto the front burner at a seminar on Monday organized by the British Embassy in Argentina which the key speaker was Stephen Green, a senior economist at the UK's Ministry of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

• Monday, August 27th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UN global climate change meeting opened in Vienna

  

  United Nations-backed climate change talks drawing 1,000 representatives from over 150 Governments, business and industry, environmental organizations and research institutions kicked off in Vienna Monday, preparing the way for a global summit set for later this year in Bali.

• Saturday, August 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UN steps up assistance for Peruvian quake victims

  

  United Nations is bolstering its assistance through the release of almost 10 million US dollars from an emergency fund and an appeal for nearly 40 million to be launched next week to victims of the major earthquake which rocked Peru on 15 August, one of the world body's top humanitarian officials revealed Friday.

• Saturday, August 25th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Evo Morales arrived to Peru with 19 tons of medicines

  

  Bolivia's President Evo Morales arrived in Pisco today to distribute 19 tons of medicines, blankets and drinking water, the second visit by a Latin American leader to the disaster area. Colombia's Alvaro Uribe traveled to the area last weekend.

• Friday, August 24th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UK: Foot-and-mouth zones to be lifted today

  

  The protection zones around two farms at the centre of the foot-and-mouth outbreak will be lifted at noon.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  United Nations finalizing Flash Appeal for Peru

  As the United Nations (UN) system finalizes a Flash Appeal for the earthquake stricken parts of Peru, UN inter-agency teams are assessing the situation in the affected areas.

• Tuesday, August 21st 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Hurricane Dean strengthens into a Category 5 storm

  

  Hurricane Dean strengthened into a monstrous Category 5 storm Monday night as its outer bands of wind and rain slammed the coasts of Mexico and Belize. Thousands of tourists fled the beaches of the Mayan Riviera as it roared toward the ancient ruins and modern oil installations of the Yucatan Peninsula.

• Monday, August 20th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  Hurricane Dean batters Jamaica, heads toward Mexico

  

  Hurricane Dean buffeted Jamaica's southern coast, flooding the capital and littering it with broken trees and roofs after killing nine people earlier on its run through the Caribbean.

• Saturday, August 18th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  UK: Foot-and-mouth restrictions eased

  

  Farmers are able to begin moving calving cows again after the Government's foot-and-mouth transport restrictions were eased.

• Saturday, August 18th 2007 - 21:00 UTC

  The Oil Patch Cheers On Hurricane Dean

  

  The price of crude oil is down some 8 percent since August 1. What the oil patch and every oil trader knows, one of the quickest ways to turn around this tumble is the drama of a good old fashioned hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico wending its way toward the Texas and Louisiana coasts. And Shazam! Here comes Hurricane Dean!