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
Companies will have to disclose environmental costs and liabilities, even including the extent of damage to their own property that they are not required to put right, if recent proposals by a United
The European Union is preparing a critical response to US proposals to reform the way internet addresses are administered, warning that they would leave control of the computer network too firmly in
A Technique originally devised to test aeroplane turbines are being adapted to help surgeons perform a particularly intricate type of eye operation. The technique was developed by the University of
Panama's dry season might be good news for the cruise liners that pass through the waters of the Panama Canal at this time of year. But commercial shippers, commodity dealers and the canal
Wealthy landowners seem likely to keep the bulk of their European Union subsidies in spite of calls for a limit to hand-outs. Proposals by the European Commission, the EU's executive, would mean that
European Union scientists appeared to back a UK ban on the sale of T-bone steak in a move which could herald a toughening of Brussels rules to prevent the spread of BSE, or mad cow disease. After a
Microsoft has bowed to pressure from European competition authorities and revised its software licensing agreements with internet service providers to remove controversial "exclusivity"
The UK government set doctors and health service managers, a tight deadline for putting in place proposed health service reforms, outlined in a white paper published last
Consumer organisations are to urge governments to set up a database to track international trade in food, to prevent produce rejected as unfit by one country being dumped elsewhere. Consumers
A trend for New Zealand farmers to specialise in producing lean meat, rather than wool, from their sheep is having a disastrous impact on thier
