Climate impacts in northern forests
Northern forests hold around 54% of the world’s total terrestrial carbon stock and contribute more than one-third to our global terrestrial carbon sink. This report reviews the impact of human induced
Northern forests hold around 54% of the world’s total terrestrial carbon stock and contribute more than one-third to our global terrestrial carbon sink. This report reviews the impact of human induced
The European biodiesel industry says it will soon launch legal action against its US competitors, alleging that unfairly subsidised American production is undercutting it in the EU market. The European Biodiesel Board told the Financial Times it would by mid-April ask the European Commission to impose one or both of two kinds of import tariff on US imports. These tariffs are "anti-dumping" levies, used against exports sold more cheaply than in the home market, and "countervailing duties", designed to offset the effect of government subsidy.
RHETORIC is a sad fact of political life, and most voters are smart enough to know that grand promises made in the heat of a parliamentary debate or an election battle should be taken with a pinch of salt. But on energy policy the gap between claim and reality is now wide enough to be embarrassing.
Beware Chinese rice. That's the message following the discovery of rice consignments containing an experimental genetically modified strain called Bt63. From 15 April, all rice imported from China into the European Union must be certified as free of Bt63.
These are the best of times; these are the worst of times. Charles Dickens' famous words describe the present state of European Union-Russia relations perfectly. There has never been as much trade and business between Europe and Russia. Yet political tension has not been this intense since the days of the Soviet Union.
A network of marine conservation zones will be put in place around England's coast by 2012 under Government plans. The Marine Conservation Society marched on the House of Commons on Thursday (Copyright Tim Fanshawe/MCS) The underwater nature reserves are one of the key proposals in the draft Marine Bill, published on Thursday. A new UK-wide planning system would also be introduced and licensing of developments such as offshore wind farms would be simplified.
The System of Rice Intensification is an alternative to the traditional way of flooded rice cultivation and is showing promise in addressing the problems of water scarcity, high energy usage and environmental degradation. The SRI method involves synergy of five important farm management techniques. Vibhu Nayar V. K. Ravichandran
Gazprom, Russia's state-owned gas group, is likely to secure energy assets in Libya alongside Eni gaining a long sought entry to north African oil and gas fields and tightening its grip on European markets. Paolo Scaroni, the Eni chief executive and Alexei Miller, the head of Gazprom, discussed the idea during talks in Moscow last Thursday, the Italian said in a statement disclosing the location of the assets. Industry sources said Eni had agreed to share assets with Gazprom "in a north African country, probably Libya'.
Scientists have pinpointed a genetic link that makes people more prone to get hooked on to tobacco, smoke more cigarettes and develop deadly lung cancer.
A fossilised jawbone and teeth found in a cave in northern Spain may have belonged to one of the first human ancestors to set foot in western Europe.
A drug commonly used to fight AIDS appears to nearly double the risk of a heart attack, researchers said. In a study published online in The Lancet medical journal, European researchers said that the antiretroviral abacavir, included as part of many anti-AIDS regimens worldwide, almost doubled patients' chances of heart problems. The lesser-used drug didanosine also increased the heart attack risk by about 50 per cent. Abacavir, also known as Ziagen, is made by GlaxoSmithKline PLC. Didanosine, or Videx, is made by Bristol-Meyers Squibb.