Oil stranded on the shoreline adjacent to a fishing farm. The effects of oil spills can have wide ranging impacts that are often portrayed by the media as long lasting environmental disasters. Such perceptions are understandable as they are often fuelled by distressing images of oiled birds and other wildlife. It is true that an oil spill can have severe short term effects, especially when organisms are considered on an individual basis.
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is NeftalÃ­ Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile. His father was a railway employee and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, a teacher. Some years later his father, who had then moved to the town of Temuco, remarried doÃ±a Trinidad Candia Malverde.
Neruda se separÃ³ de Hagenaar en 1936 âse divorciarÃ­a de ella a distancia, en MÃ©xico en 1942, divorcio que no fue aceptado por la justicia chilenaâ.â Malva muriÃ³ en 1943, a los ocho aÃ±os, en la Holanda ocupada por los alemanes, mientras Neruda era cÃ³nsul general de Chile en MÃ©jico.