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
Lake Victoria's shoreline have been taken over by water hyacinth, ringing the lake with a thick green curst where water used to be. Controlling the weed has become a priority for Uganda, Kenya and
Out in the reaches of the solar system, beyond the orbits of Neptune and Pluto, something strange is going on. Two space probes, now speeding away into the interstellar void, are not behaving as they
Whatever the future effects of cabon-dioxide emissions on the climate, an argument rages over how much the globe has warmed in past decades : a
The Umatilla Chemical Depot, which covers 20,000 acres of land of arid eastern Oregon, contains 3,717 tons of material, stored in 89 highly secured earth-covered bunkers. No chemical shipments were
Zevco, a small Anglo-Belgian firm, has just launched the world's first taxi to be powered by smooth, silent fuel cells. Zevco's taxi is actually a hybrid vehicle. The cells that power it, generate
Despite good laws and even better intentions, India causes as much pollution as any rapidly industrialising poor country A HEREDITARY Hindu priest, Veer Bhadra Mishra is wont, shortly after sunrise, to totter down the stone steps of his temple to the Ganges river, and there perform a three-part ritual. He touches the sacred water. He dips himself in it. He cups it in his hands and drinks it.
At first glance, Europe's energy liberalisation seems to be going well. It was less than two years ago, that the European Union adopted a directive requiring all member countries partly to liberalise
Volatile international oil prices, rapidly rising demand for energy, and nightmarish air pollution:all have brought the issue of energy security to the top of the China government's cluttered agenda.
On December 7th California declared its first-ever "stage-three" emergency, meaning that 98.5% of its power reserves had been consumed and that a series of hour-long power cuts might be imposed on
Since its conception nearly a decade ago, the Dabhol Power project in the Indian state of Maharashtra has generated more problems than power. Dabhol and its main shareholder, Enron Corp, based in
