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.
Hailing from Chile at the start of the 20th century, feminist poet (and once teacher to the famed Pablo Neruda) Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga, who wrote under the pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was the first Latin American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.