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 …
Tailings dam controversy: Chile's General Directorate of Waters has decided to challenge a recent ruling of Santiago Appeals Court related to tailings mine. The court had revoked authorisation of the Los Pelambres mine to build a US $530 million tailings dam
Residents of northern Chile are appealing that a tailings dam project, which is now almost halfway complete, be halted. Once completed, it would be the third largest tailings dam in the world and would eventually hold 1,700 million tonnes of tailings, mainly slurry laden with toxic waste leftover from processed …
Following years of criticism of the environmental and labour impacts of the salmon industry in Chile, several local ngos and trade unions have joined hands to set up a new body to monitor the industry. The Labour and Environmental Observatory of Chiloe began functioning in the last week of July. …
The accelerated growth of finfish aquaculture has resulted in a series of developments detrimental to the environment and human health. The latter is illustrated by the widespread and unrestricted use of prophylactic antibiotics in this industry, especially in developing countries, to forestall bacterial infections resulting from sanitary shortcomings in fish …
The high level of air pollution in Santiago, the Chilean capital, recently forced local authorities to declare an environment emergency. RELATED STORY • What it will take to bring Asia out of the smoke The pollution levels registered in at least two of the city's stations, which record particulate levels …
The Palena local government in Chilean Patagonia recently ordered the navy to remove all breeding cages of industrial salmon illegally placed by Pacific Star Salmon Company in Chaiten village. The company has also occupied areas important for the livelihood of local fishermen. The caging destroys natural shoals of fishes and …
THE controversy regarding a gold mining proposal in the Chilean Andes led to a violent clash on November 11, 2005, in Santiago between military police and protestors gathered to present a petition against the project to the government. The proposed Pascua-Lama mine is to come up in the Huasco. It …
Chile witnessed a huge celebratory march by thousands of environmentalists, covering 14 cities of the country, on July 9, 2005. The activists sought to underline their successes, especially their two victories against major industries: the closure of the Valdivia wood pulp plant belonging to industrial conglomerate Copec, charged with polluting …
1975: Rasheed Jamshed becomes the first markhor trophy hunter 1983: A trophy hunting scheme is formally launched. Foreign hunters invited 1990: Germany and the UK move a case at CITES to ban export of markhor trophy to prevent its poaching and extinction. Pakistan says the fears are unfounded. CITES puts …
Even as the case of widespread lead poisoning in Arica, a city in northern Chile, remains unresolved, the same problem has now raised its head in Santiago, Chile. Chilean authorities recently seized school supplies containing lead being sold in a poor locality of the capital city. The products, including paint …
countries representing 60 per cent of the world's gross domestic product re-iterated their commitment to free trade and agreed on a set of "best practices' for bilateral trade agreements at the 12th Annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (apec). The meeting , held in Santiago, Chile, from November 17-21, 2004, witnessed …
Chile's indegenous community of Pehuenche Indians have found rare political support. President Ricardo Lagos absented himself from the inauguration of the controversial Ralco dam, 500 kilometres south of Santiago, on September 27, 2004. The biggest hydropower plant of the country became operational after an eight-year-long legal battle over indigenous land …
Killing two birds with a single law. That is exactly what the Chilean president Ricardo Lagos is up to. A new law proposed by him aims at the creation of a research fund from royalties paid by the mining industry. According to the draft bill submitted by Lagos to Chile's …
This paper shows that attenuation formula for peak ground acceleration (PGA) for Chile subduction zone, derived from a homogeneous database for thrust interplate and inslab of intermediate depth earthquakes recorded on ‘hard rock’ and ‘rock and hard soil’, give systematically higher values than universal formulas proposed for subduction zones. Also …
A free trade agreement (fta) between Chile and South Korea is making farmers in the latter country extremely restive. The South Korean national assembly's decision to debate its ratification brought them out on the streets again. Farmers see the fta
Cancun: a paper tiger jurgen maier The strategy of the European Union (eu) did seem to be transformed in the conference centres of Cancun. A coherent eu policy is non-existent. Europe is deeply divided between the American satellites (the uk, Spain and Italy) and the Gaullist camp (France, Germany and …
A 40-foot blob of slimy flesh that was washed up on the shores of a beach in Chile has confounded scientists who are trying to identify its origins. Some say it could be a rare giant octopus or squid while others believe it to be discarded blubber from a whale …
