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
Each day livestock in Wisconsin-America's Dairyland, as it calls itself-produces enough manure to fill the 76,000 seat football stadium in the state's capital, Madison. But the state wants to limit
No politician is a keener armchair scientist than South Africa's president, Thabo Mbeki. But Mr Mbeki is a politician, not a scientist, and his cyber excursions have led him to take a tragically
Famine relief for North Korea has competition. Later this month, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) will announce its annual appeal for emergency food aid for the impoverished country. But the
In parts of Brazil's poor north-east, snakes and parrots are on sale by the roadside for a few reais. In Brazil, as elsewhere in Latin America, wild animals have been kept as pets for centuries. But
States in US are spending their tobacco winnings in every way except one:trying to stop their citizens from smoking. In fiscal 2002, only one dollar in 20 of the settlement money will be used for
Twenty years on, the fight against AIDS is not going well. Almost 70% of new infections and existing cases-a daunting 28.1m people-are in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS is now cutting 15 years off average
According to Reg Watson and Daniel Pauly, two researchers at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, China has been lying spectacularly for at least ten years over fish statistics. This,
Shearer Lumber Products, a timber company based in Idaho is facing the problem of eco-terrorism. In November, the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an underground organisation, gave warning that it had
Manatees (also known as sea cows or sirens) are at particular risk from boats. Each year, propellers kill 70-80 of these animals in Florida alone. Hundreds more bear multiple scars from near misses.
Ever since September, when a cow in Chiba Prefecture was found to be infected with BSE, Japanese consumers have been shunning beef. Despite frantic efforts to reassure, McDonald's and other
