The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
Responding to what some health officials feared could be the leading edge of a global pandemic emerging from Mexico, American health officials declared a public health emergency on Sunday as 20 cases of swine flu were confirmed in this country, including eight in New York City. Other nations imposed travel …
MEXICO CITY: Fears of a global flu pandemic grew as new suspected cases appeared across the world on Sunday, including up to 81 people who died in Mexico, where millions hid indoors to avoid contamination. While all the deaths so far have been in Mexico, the flu is spreading in …
CATHERINE BREMER MEXICO CITY World health officials on Sunday stepped up the battle against a new swine flu, blamed for dozens of deaths in Mexico, as the US declared a public emergency amid signs the disease was spreading. The US will screen visitors from infected areas as 20 cases were …
The United States and Mexico agreed on Thursday on a new partnership to fight climate change and promote environmentally-friendly forms of energy production, they said in a joint statement. US President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, meeting in Mexico City, agreed to broaden political and technical cooperation on …
Do GM crops increase yield? The answer is No, and the claim is outrageous as the modified crops were developed as being herbicide tolerant and insect repellent-------- Lies, damn lies, and the Monsanto website. Tell a lie a hundred times, and the chances are that it will eventually appear to …
Air pollution in capital city Dhaka raised higher than Mexico and Mumbai killing thousands of people prematurely each year, health experts say. According to the Department of Environment (DoE) the density of airborne particulate matter (PM) reaches 463 micrograms per cubic metre (mcm) in the city during December-March period - …
Developing nations must adopt targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions and they need to do their share to reduce global warming, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said on Wednesday. Developing countries -- so far exempt from meeting emissions targets -- need to help solve the world's most pressing problem, global warming, …
In the current financial crisis, risk-weary investors worry more about keeping their own boats afloat than in pumping money into a sector noted for high upfront costs, long pay back periods and low rates of return. Add to that an inefficient use of resources, weak regulation and lack of up-to-date …
This study evaluates the capability of horizontal subsurface-flow constructed wetlands (SSF CWs) for treating pretreated swine wastewater as a function of contact time (CT) and type of macrophyte under the local conditions of Yucat
In the coastal community of Chabihau, Yucatan, Mexico, hurricanes Gilbert (1988) and Isidore (2002) opened breaches in the coastal dune. The government modified these breaches with a floodgate, channels, and bridges, allowing tidal influx that has transformed the swamp ecosystem into a coastal lagoon. Our long-term research (1990-2006) has been …
Location of a gene active against rust diseases pinpointed COME winter and wheat plants might exhibit symptoms every farmer dreads. The leaves and stems show small orange to brown flecks that soon enlarge and spread. The infected parts mature and go from brown to black. Gradually the plant withers and …
Marijuana to cancer: Scientists in Seattle have found that young men smoking marijuana were at a higher risk of developing an aggressive form of testicular cancer called nonseminoma than those who had never tried the drug. The disease is known to strike men in there 20s and 30s and is …
Washington: Two colossal black holes appear to be orbiting one another in sort of a cosmic minuet at the center of a faraway galaxy formed when two separate galaxies collided, US astronomers said on Wednesday. These two so-called supermassive black holes, which are celestial objects with enormous gravitational pull, are …
Alan Rabinowitz is the world's leading jaguar expert, and he has begun to realize his dream of creating a vast network of interconnected corridors and refuges extending from the U.S.-Mexico border into South America. It is known as Paseo del Jaguar
Half a century of films about indigenous peoples have been removed from forgotten corners, recorded on compact discs and launched in the Mexican market. State bookshops and offices of the government
Staff Reporter NEW DELHI: To devise energy efficient policies and technologies of renewable energies and their usage in India and Mexico, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and the Centre for Innovation and Renewable Energy (CIRE), Mexico City signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday. Director General of TERI R.K. …
More destructive hurricanes, shrinking forests, melting glaciers, disappearing animals: the prospective damage to Latin America and the Caribbean from climate change makes for grim reading. A new World Bank report, timed to coincide with a United Nations conference in Poland, tries to put numbers to the potential economic cost. (
