: The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Chile rose to more than 400 people, an official at the National Emergency Office said on Sunday.
Chilean rescuers used shovels and sledgehammers on Sunday to find survivors of the mammoth earthquake that unleashed a Pacific tsunami and triggered loot- ing by desperate and hungry residents.
Although seafood is the most highly traded food internationally, it is an often overlooked component of global food security. It provides essential local food, livelihoods, and export earnings. Although global capture fisheries production is unlikely to increase, aquaculture is growing considerably.
The UN Environment Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) has published a briefing on the implications of the negotiations on reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) for forest restoration.
A day after dropping its pursuit of rival Anglo American PLC, mining giant Xstrata PLC will turn its focus toward projects it already has in the pipeline, rather than seek new acquisitions, its chief executive said in an interview.
In those South American countries where forest plantations are important or have potential for development, investment in them is one option for creating jobs.
In 1973, Leonardo Henrichsen turned his film camera on the soldier who was aiming at him and held it steady until he was shot to death. But the justice system never caught up with the killer of the Argentine journalist, murdered in Chile while he was filming a military uprising. Immediately after the incident, a coup d
SANTIAGO: An ambitious gold mining project in northern Chile, high up in the Andes close to ancient glaciers, is finally getting under way amid the economic downturn despite fears from environmentalists.
