And they are exacerbated by bad management, says Simon Long AS IT SCOURS the universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, NASA has a motto-cum-mission-statement: “Follow the water”. About 70% of the human
Cubans have been suffering from a severe drought. The hardest hit have been the eastern provinces, already Cuba's poorest, which have received barely half the normal rainfall expected between April
Hemp is grown freely in much of the world. In March, Canada legalised its commercial planting after a 60 year ban: and the EU subsidises its production. But, not surprisingly, the plant is causing a
Anaruj Shankar and his colleague from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland have found that feeding zinc or vitamin A to children seems to raise their immunity to malaria. In a 13 month
Like the multinational companies it frequently clashes with, Greenpeace, the noisiest of all environmental campaign groups, has a constant struggle to stimulate demand for its products. Like those
A new quick method for identifying mutants is based on a simple premise : the proteins that a mutant strain produces do not weigh the same as those made by the original virus. The study was
Genetic engineering of trees has been slow to grow. One reason being money, according to Ron Sederoff, director of the Forest Biotechnology group at North Carolina State University and head of a
Gene mapping is useful against all sorts of pests-including tree thieves. Eleanor White, a researcher at the Canadian Forest Service in Victoria, British Columbia, has borrowed from forensic science
The city of Kurchatov in northern Kazakhstan are facing the consequences of nuclear testing. Between 1949 and 1989, 470 nuclear tests were carried out at Semipalatinsk. Until 1962 the tests were on
Environmental approval has been granted for $300m park for Manhattan, to be developed by the Hudson River Park Conservancy. Unless disgruntled locals can stop the project, ground-breaking will begin
The debate surronding the proposed use of statistical sampling in the 2000 census in US has become so heated that the integrity of the entire process has been called into question. There is now a
