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
Researchers in Junagadh, India are trying to find out whether traditional rules of thumb provide accurate weather forecasts. Most farmers in the region grow one crop of peanuts or castor per year. An
Against the odds, European negotiators emerged triumphant from the Bonn conference on climate change. When the world's environment ministers gathered to negotiate the final details of the Kyoto
To judge by the euphoric proclaimations and the breathless headlines it seems that the Kyoto Protocol is back from the dead. George Bush, the Toxic Texan, had all but killed the treaty by declaring
Even Stuart Eizenstat, the man who negotiated the Kyoto Protocol, a UN treaty on climate change, on behalf of the Clinton Administration, thinks "with great remorse" that the Kyoto treaty is dead.
What is at stake in Bonn? That is the question hanging over the current gathering in Germany's former capital of the world's environment ministers to decide on the future of global climate change
Water has been contentious in the state of Idaho ever since fist fights broke out along the first irrigation ditches more than 100 years ago. Nowadays, the potato farmers' water is protected by an
When the papers containing the first attempts to sequence the human genome were published earlier this year, some people purported to be shocked. The cause of their shock was the number (or, rather
Not without America, Junichiro Koizumi told his friends in Washington at the weekend. Together with Europe, he said in Britain on Monday. On July 4th, with Japan's prime minister now in Paris, his
Intellectual-property rights are not just for the rich world. Carefully constructed, they can help the poorest too : a report.
Patents that protect not only inventions but also ways of distributing and selling them are causing an uproar. But are more traditional patents-granted for inventions that are novel, non-obvious and
