The EEA report ‘Urban adaptation in Europe’ highlights the urgent need to adapt European cities to climate change and provides an overview of actions they are taking. The report provides a rich source
PARTICLE physicists at Fermilab near Chicago may have sighted the elusive "top" quark, one of the smallest constituents of matter (Science, Vol 258, No 5086; New Scientist, Vol 136, No 1851). An
More and more libraries are incorporating computer networks in their effort to reach the entire world.
Remains of asbestos mining industry are still polluting the rivers and air in South Africa
Technological improvement for greater efficiency faces many hurdles, especially poor immediate returns on investment
ITC s CDM project
Farmers in Sri Lanka are up in arms against low-priced agricultural imports from India that have flooded the country's markets. After prolonged protest campaigns against the duty-free potato
Filmmaker Sergei Klado and TV journalist Irina Malikova have won Russia s first ever human rights film award for The Lizard Effect , which reveals the harassment of environmentalists in the country
The one sector which is running amok in terms of growth of emissions is transport. Between 1990 and 2005, the maximum increase in emissions of rich countries was in this sector
The world's forests are a key storehouse of carbon
It is now part of the carbon game: emitting but buying carbon credits to balance accounts. People fly to their holidays but buy some carbon
