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 …
catalytic converter plant: UK-based Johnson Mathey has recently entered into an agreement with Calcutta's Arora Group for setting up a catalytic converter plant in Delhi. The company would investUS $1.5 million for the project. The new facility is expected to be operational by third quarter of 1998. The Delhi plant …
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector lending arm of the World Bank (WB), has been accused of disregarding its own environmental and social guidelines in the construction of a dam on the Biobio river in southern Chile. Environmental groups in the US and Chile, including Friends of the …
The National Environmental Commission of Chile recently gave its final approval for the construction of a second 570-mw dam on the Bio Bio river despite stringent criticism from ecologists and local Indian tribes who seem destined to lose their indigenous land to the project. The electric utility Endesa's environmental impact …
A recent archaeological find in this Latin American country has indicated that Asian migration had begun far earlier in the Americas than is currently presumed. The immigrants got to South America thousands of miles from Clovis in New Mexico - that is conventionally accepted as the oldest known in the …
the weathering of rocks is a natural phenomenon which leads to the enrichment of various metal ores. The process was found to be mediated by bacteria, as research conducted in northern Chile revealed. According to the findings of the study, bacteria could be mediators in copper sulphide enrichment during the …
A sustained 30-year old battle has resulted in the tired but indefatigable Chileans claiming a resounding victory over the Mediterranean fruitfly which caused so much damage to the Chilean economy. The consequences of the fruitfly's menace led to other nations boycotting Chilean agricultural produce. The Chilean war included such tactics …
Aquaculture has spelt success for the tiny island of Chilo6, off the coast of southern Chile. Such has been the boom that Chile ig now the world's second-largest salmon producer after Norway. Chilotes, as people of the island are called, have learnt to resource their earnings from the lakes and …
A cellular phone for the ordinary Chilean is passe as the country advances to heights which even the us is yet to achieve in the field of communications. School students routinely communicate via their internet addresses and taxidrivers and housewives all walk around with cellular phones. Chile has now moved …
The Chilean government is in the line of fire. It is being accused by local environmentalist groups of hold- ing up a private project aimed to save a vast tract of the virgin rainforests, only to ensure the well-being of the nation's flourishing timber and salmon companies, who are exploiting …
The Chilean sky is overcast with thunderheads of controversy. Lawyers, scientists and landowners are slugging it out with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) - an 8-state venture by Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, France, Italy and Switzerland, to grab control of the site at Paranal in the Atacama desert, where …
You can't tilt against these windmills. A good wind has literally swept into the lives of the inhabitants of Chile's Coquimbo region as 31 windmills have been set spinning to pump water. Some of the ranchers in this drought-stricken area spend more than 8 hours a day drawing up the …
What prompted you to enter politics? And how significant is your nomination as green party candidate in view of current happenings, particularly in Chile? I didn't take the initiative. Frankly, being a presidential candidate wasn't a part of my scheme of things. In fact, I have never belonged to any …
THE WORLD Bank has approved a $70 million loan to finance the 450-MW hydroelectric dam on Chile's biggest river, the Bio Bio. The loan was sanctioned by the bank's International Finance Corp (IFC), which lends to the private sector, even before the Pangue dam's environmental impact assessment by the bank …
A LARGE number of dead whales were found washed up by whale scientist Roger Payne in Patagonia, Chile. The cause of death was apparently skin infections. The mysterious human-AIDS-like plague, which attacked the whales' immune system, was also reported in large areas as diversely located as the South Pacific and …
