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Headline	Author	Published	Section
A Problem of Scale Chilean salmon-farming industry in a sad state		27 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:18 PM on 27 Mar 2008 A virus called infectious salmon anemia is sweeping through Chile's fisheries, bringing attention to the condition of the country's third-largest export industry. On expansive salmon farms, fish are bred in crowded underwater pens. Fish poop and food pellets contaminate the water. As many as 1 million nonnative salmon escape each year, gobbling native species and traveling as far as Argentina. The ...
Topics: agriculture, aquaculture, Chile, fishing, food, news, water pollution (all these topics)

Pascua Tense A proposed gold mine in Chile and Argentina has emails flying	Kelly Hearn	21 Jun 2006	Main Dish
Last week, Chile's government green-lighted a controversial mining project known as Pascua-Lama. If the name rings a bell, odds are a chain email has found its way to your inbox, an appeal to "friends who care about our earth." Activists hoped Chile's new president, Michelle Bachelet, would stop the mine. Photo: Queen/ WireImage.com. The far-reaching cyber-alert describes a messy inter ...
Topics: Argentina, Chile, mining and drilling (all these topics)

Down on the farm Why the global food system isn't kind to local farmers	Tom Philpott	25 Jan 2006	Gristmill

Topics: aquaculture, Chile, fishing, food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Sweet Chile o' Mine Two Americans take political heat for preserving Chilean wilderness		08 Aug 2005	Daily Grist
Sweet Chile o' Mine Two Americans take political heat for preserving Chilean wilderness Douglas Tompkins and his wife Kristine McDivitt own more than 2,000 square miles of Patagonian wilderness, and they're determined to preserve it -- even if some Chileans don't appreciate the conservationist gesture. Their Pumalín Park holding encompasses huge swaths of virgin forest, free-flowing streams, and scenic coastlines -- territory that ...
Topics: Chile, news, wilderness (all these topics)

Green Chiles As quality of life improves, Chileans get eco-active		12 Jul 2005	Daily Grist
Green Chiles As quality of life improves, Chileans get eco-active Last Saturday, thousands of Chileans marched in 14 cities to celebrate two environmental victories. Green activists helped to shut down the Valdivia wood-pulp facility (owned by the country's biggest industrial firm, Copec) after pollution from the plant killed hundreds of black-necked swans in a nearby wetland; the plant own ...
Topics: Chile, mining and drilling, news, pollution and waste, wildlife (all these topics)

What Would Jesus Ride? Raging Cyclists push for bike-friendly reforms in Santiago		15 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
What Would Jesus Ride? Raging Cyclists push for bike-friendly reforms in Santiago Inspired by Critical Mass, the cycling activist group formed in San Francisco in 1992, the Furiosos Ciclistas -- or Raging Cyclists -- of Santiago, Chile, are inspiring real reform in that polluted city. The group is one of more than 200 inspired by Critical Mass in cities across the world. Santiago is one of the most polluted cities in the wor ...
Topics: Chile, placemaking, politics (all these topics)

The Joy of Sachs Exotic South American forest set aside as wilderness by ... bankers?		15 Sep 2004	Daily Grist
The Joy of Sachs Exotic South American forest set aside as wilderness by ... bankers? When New York investment banking and management firm Goldman Sachs acquired a logging operation in Tierra del Fuego, on an island off the southernmost tip of Chile, it did something unusual: Rather than "seek to maximize its economic value, which is what we would have done if this were a shopping mall or an apartment building," ...
Topics: business, Chile, land stewardship (all these topics)

Sweet Chile O' Mine Greenpeace Activist in Chile Tells It Like She Sees It		09 Feb 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Chile, dams, education, energy, Greenpeace, hydropower, mining and drilling, rivers and watersheds, South America, wilderness (all these topics)

Bank Warms Chile Bank Protects Land in Tierra del Fuego		18 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Bank Warms Chile Bank Protects Land in Tierra del Fuego Environmentalists in Chile have reason to be muy feliz of late. First, the government agreed to turn a vast tract of land owned by U.S. multimillionaire Doug Tompkins into a public nature reserve. Now, investment bank Goldman Sachs has announced that it will create another such reserve in Tierra del Fuego, the southernmost tip of South America. Goldman Sachs obtained ...
Topics: business, Chile, land stewardship (all these topics)

His Park Is Bigger Than His Bite Chile Dedicates New Nature Park on Land Purchased by Rich American		09 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
His Park Is Bigger Than His Bite Chile Dedicates New Nature Park on Land Purchased by Rich American Some 738,000 acres of pristine rainforest in southern Chile will get official billing as a nature sanctuary today, thanks to a deal between U.S. tycoon Doug Tompkins and the Chilean government. Tompkins, cofounder of the sportswear company Esp ...
Topics: Chile, energy, international government agencies, land stewardship, mining and drilling, rainforests, Venezuela (all these topics)

Calf-kaesque Melting of South American Glaciers Leads to Sea-Level Rise		17 Oct 2003	Daily Grist
Calf-kaesque Melting of South American Glaciers Leads to Sea-Level Rise Glaciers in the Patagonia region of southern Argentina and Chile are melting so fast that they are leading to a tiny but notable rise in sea level, U.S. scientists report in the latest issue of the journal Science. The glaciers are melting twice as quickly as they were in 1975, an increase that the researchers attribute to global warming. Between 199 ...
Topics: Argentina, Chile, climate, oceans (all these topics)

The Endesa Nigh Indigenous Activists Give Up Fight Over Chilean Dam		19 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
The Endesa Nigh Indigenous Activists Give Up Fight Over Chilean Dam After a six-year protest, four elderly Pehuenche women have agreed to end their opposition to a $570 million hydroelectric dam to be built on their ancestral land in Southern Chile. After lengthy negotiations with the Chilean government and Endesa, the Spanish-owned power company building the dam, the wom ...
Topics: Chile, commercial and industry organizations, dams, energy, hydropower, wildlife (all these topics)

Soilant Green U.S. Fails to Inspect Farmed Fish Imports for Dangerous Chemicals		15 Sep 2003	Daily Grist
Soilant Green U.S. Fails to Inspect Farmed Fish Imports for Dangerous Chemicals If the orange foam caused by Canadian aquaculture isn't enough to scare you away from farmed fish, how about the presence of malachite green, a fabric dye suspected to cause cancer, in Chilean farmed salmon? This year, European countries seized dozens of tons of farmed salmon from Chile that were found to have been con ...
Topics: Chile, globalization, marine life, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Santi-ugho		28 May 2003	Daily Grist
Santi-ugho The city of Santiago, Chile, located in the shadow of the snow-capped Andes Mountains, is blessed with one of the most breathtaking natural surroundings of any urban area on Earth. But from May to September, you wouldn't know it; heavy smog obscures the Andes entirely and lends the word "breathtaking" a different meaning. A poll of Latin American business travelers by the magazine America Economia found that Santia ...
Topics: air pollution, Chile (all these topics)

Cites for Sore Eyes		15 Nov 2002	Daily Grist

Topics: Chile, marine life, National Environmental Trust, wildlife (all these topics)

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