Liu Xiao spends her weeks visiting sludge and organic waste treatment plants across China. The travel can be tiring but as a technical and policy adviser on waste management she must help implement President
Indonesia is facing a disaster with forest fires on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo and will shut down logging or plantation companies found guilty of starting them, the country's environment
The European Union has given the US a deadline of today to respond to an offer for a deal on aircraft noise or face the implementation of laws Washington says will severely harm US
A leading US scientist yesterday warned that Britain was paying the price for consumer rejection of biotechnology in lost investment and a brain drain of young researchers heading for the US.
The European Commission will tomorrow endorse controversial proposals to allow companies to buy and sell permits to pollute, helping the European Union to cut a bill of up to 20 bn pound to meet
In the dry season the Limpopo river is so small it is possible to drive across it at most points in an ordinary saloon car. But yesterday the Limpopo, which marks South Africa's northern border, was
An international conference on genetically modified foods agreed yesterday that the new organisms had so far been shown to have no ill-effects on human health, while recommending scientists to carry
The Supreme Court of British Columbia, Canada's third-largest province, has thrown out legislation that would have allowed the government to sue tobacco companies for recovery of smoking-related
Iceland, the UK supermarket chain, announced yesterday that all its animal products would come from livestock reared on a non-genetically modifed diet by September, in what it said was a warning
Nicotine may be an addictive killer but it also has beneficial side effects, pharmaceutical researchers have discovered. Nicotine, divorced from tobacco, is showing promising results in treating
The EU is considering tighter environmental regulations on the mining industry in the lifht of the cyanide spill that contaminated rivers in central Europe . Margot Wallstrom, EU environment
