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
Why is George W. Bush so reluctant to do anything serious about global warming? Surely not, as some cynics suggest, because he is in the pocket of America's fossil-fuel industry. Yet this action (or
A new report from America's National Academy of Sciences confirms the reality of global warming. The NASA's conclusions, which include no new data, will come as no surprise to those working in the
According to a study presented on June 1st to the American Geophysical Union, in Boston, the transport of PCBS and many harmful pesticides to the Arctic may be happening far faster than was
Astronomers studying solar systems have reported a rare find : the very first stirrings of one just like earth's : a
Energy technology sector consists of a rag-bag of companies at the innovative end of the stodgy electricity industry. ET ranges from micropower, such as fuel cells and microturbines, to renewbales
Buses were being stoned and set on fire in Delhi in a sharp escalation of a battle over fuels. The attackers were mostly owners of buses run on highly polluting diesel fuel. The assaulted buses were
George Bush has thrown the decade-long effort to finalise the UN treaty on climate change into chaos. In truth the protocol was already in deep trouble even before Mr Bush took office. The most
On March 9th, life took a turn towards art as a band of controversial scientists gathered before a mob of journalists in Rome to launch a project to produce a human by cloning. The protagonists-led
The Lake Isabella Dam, completed in 1953, created floodplains that allowed a riverside habitat to flourish. To America's environmental activists, dams are wicked. But as the Lake Isabella Dam
Lena Ma of the University of Florida and her colleagues have shown that the Chinese brake fern has a near-insatiable appetite for arsenic. It could thus be used to help clean up spoil heaps
