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
Oral contraceptives have no long-term adverse effect on health, according to the largest study, undertaken of the pill. Clifford Kay of UK's Royal College of General Practitioners, who started the
Cambodia's prime minister, Hun Sen, ordered a tough crarckdown on illegal logging. He ordered the police and military to use armed forces if necessary to wipe out what he called "anarchic" logging.
A pioneering technology for introducing large proteins into cells is being used to destroy HIV-infected cells. Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine say the work is "the first
By approving the use of stem cells for medical research, the House of Lords has put the UK in a position to leap ahead of international rivals-and face ethical scrutiny : a
As last voyages go, the final sea dumping trip of the sewage sludge barge MV Northumbrian Water is short on romance. Before the new year Captain Steve Bains and his crew will earn a footnote in
The RSPB, Europe's biggest wildlife conservation charity, is calling on consumers to avoid bottles wine sealed wiht plastic "corks". It says the increasing use of plastic stoppers is threatening
Cantab Pharmaceuticals, the gene and immunotherapy research group, is to develop vaccines against nicotine and cocaine after announcing a deal to buy the treatments from a US company. Cantab is
The UK should not go ahead with its proposed ban on the use of white asbestos, the Canadian government has said in a submission to the UK Health and Safety executive on its proposed prohibition
Industry hopes that France might soon permit the use of certain genetically altered corn seeds have been delivered a new blow. France's Council of State, which monitors aministrative law, had
Nestle has halted production of panettone - Italy's favourite Christmas cake - after rat poison inserted by the Animal Liberation Front was found in two cakes in shops in Florence and Bologna. The
