Health & Science

• Tuesday, January 30th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Southern Chile's tremors traced to submarine fissure

  

  The weeks' long tremors that have residents of Chilean Patagonia fearsome of a major earthquake can be traced to a submarine fissure and not the tectonic plaques, according to a group of scientists working in the area.

• Sunday, January 28th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Case of foot and mouth disease confirmed in Bolivia

  A case of foot and mouth disease, FAM, was confirmed this week in the east of Bolivia, the first in the country in the last three years and a half. Bolivia has since banned all exports of beef to the Andean countries, reports the press in La Paz.

• Sunday, January 28th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Seism “psychosis” as earth trembles in southern Chile

  

  Viviana Betancour governor of Chile's Southern Region of Aysen, which is living in a state of almost panic because of several days persistent telluric trembling, called on residents to be calm and trust that the best possible technical assistance is already working in the area.

• Sunday, January 28th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentina among top ten with “greatest quality of life”

  

  France offers the greatest quality of life in the world, according to the latest ranking from International Living magazine, a leading resource for helping people live, travel, and prosper overseas, while war-torn Iraq remains in last place.

• Wednesday, January 24th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Hudson volcano rumbling and fears of an eruption

  

  Chilean authorities in the XI Region of Aysén are closely monitoring the repeated tremors in the area and are prepared for the event of a major seism or the eruption of the Hudson volcano.

• Monday, January 8th 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Outbreak of brucellosis in southern Chile

  An outbreak of bovine brucellosis has been confirmed in the Chilean province of Osorno, according to the Minister of Agriculture Alvaro Rojas.

• Monday, January 1st 2007 - 20:00 UTC

  Tobacco advertising banned in Buenos Aires City

  

  Public advertising of tobacco in Buenos Aires City has been banned as from the first day of 2007, under municipal law 1799 passed in late 2005, amid a drive to curb smoking-related illnesses in Argentina that according the national government kill 40,000 people a year.

• Monday, December 18th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Survey shows Chileans among least happy in Latinamerica

  The latest in a string of international happiness surveys shows that 66% of Chileans describe themselves as “happy” or “very happy” — yet they are less happy than people in almost every other Latin American country.

• Thursday, December 14th 2006 - 20:00 UTC

  Bajii Yangtze dolphin “is functionally extinct”

  

  The Baiji Yangtze Dolphin is with all probability extinct reports a scientific expedition from the Institute for Hydrobiology Wuhan, China, and the Swiss-based baiji.org Foundation. During six weeks they desperately searched the Yangtze River for a specimen but in vain.