Composition: critical
While the aircraft industry flies high with composites, one question nags engineers: are they really safe?
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Not guilty
James Fenton, ecological advisor to the Natural Trust of Scotland, says it is incorrect to say that human activity has destroyed the native woods of the Scottish Highlands. He adds that
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Warming the skies
Environmentalists in Europe are campaigning for a tax on aviation fuels to reduce aircraft emissions
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Gangotri glacier receding due to global warming
scientists: Glaciers are fast receding in Antarctica because of global warming, say Indian experts who have returned from a national expedition of the icy continent recently. The Dakshin Gangotri
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Sensible business
A new player has entered the global warming debate, the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. The center intends to focus on research, public education and most of all, figuring out what can and
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Clinton urged to beef up emissions policy
President Bill Clinton was urged by European Union politicians and US environmentalists to beef up US policy for tackling climate change. The United Nations Environment Programme, plans to set up an
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Pregnancy pangs
Nearly 600,000 women die of pregnancy-related complications every year. One woman in 30 who develop chronic, debilitating problems, dies. Each year, nearly 3.4 million infants die in the first days
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Shrimp farms vs mangroves
Shrimp farms in Latin America produce a quarter of the three million tonnes of shrimp consumed worldwide each year. Consequently, shrimp farmers are destroying the mangrove forests to make shrimp
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Sleepless in USA
Americans wake up to a vital need of the human body: sleep
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Fortune 500 cos to fight global warming
Thirteen Fortune 500 companies representing oil, automakers, utilities and other big industries have said they will join a campaign to rally support to fight global warming.Bucking many smokestack
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Builders enlisted to fight warming
President Clinton urged the building industry to join a national campaign aimed at cutting energy consumption in new houses in half over the next decade. Clinton's challenge came at the formal launch
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It hasn't been this sizzling in centuries
A study published in Nature magazine by climatologist Michael Mann and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, may help melt away any lingering doubt about global warming. The scientists
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- Govtsets 2002 limit for Green fridges
The environment ministry will shortly announce its decision to ban use of chloro-fluro carbons (CFCs) from the refrigerator manufacturiang sector from 2002.
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Climate change and water resources in Britain
This paper explores the potential implications of climate change for the use and management of water resources in Britain. It is based on a review of simulations of changes in river flows, groundwater
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Genetic defence
UK's child haemophiliacs are to be given genetically-engineered clotting agents to remove any risk of their contracting Creutzfeltd-Jacob disease (CJD), a government spokesperson announced
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Shifting Gs
Very soon, two satellites will be launched for measuring the changes in Earth's gravitational force due to mass changes equivalent to 1 cm of water over a quarter of a million square kilometres. The
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Developing burden
A research paper brings out the dangers of increasing use of private capital in the developing countries
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Climate: warming up
In 1990, the US greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were 5.41 tonnes per capita. In 1993, President Clinton said that the US would bring down GHG emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000. The Climate
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Industrial groups plans to battle climate treaty
Industry opponnents of a treaty to fight global warming have drafted an ambitious proposal to spend millions of dollars to convince the public that the environmental accord is based on shaky science.
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Its their climate, too
Secretary of state Madeleine Albright announced a diplomatic full court press to encourage developing nations to help avert the danger of climate change. A first, charitable reaction might be to ask