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
The Conata Basin, in South Dakota's badlands, is parched, scrubby and desolate-hell for humans, but heaven for black-footed ferrets. This resilient creature, the only ferrets. This resilient
It has been another week of long arguments at the World Trade Organisation over how to implement last year's Doha agreement on getting cheaper drugs for poor countries. The main dispute has been over
The official inquiry into the UK government's handling of mad cow disease has finally been reported. The inquiry began work more than two years ago and its report runs to 16 volumes. It is one of the
A new invention developed at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore and designed by Adham Ayoub, a visiting Egyptian researchers had designed an intraocular implant for eyes
When, on October 18th, the United States Congress agreed to end 40 years of sanctions on the sale of medicines to Cuba, the announcement had a slightly pathetic ring. For, despite those sanctions,
Marine biologists, studying the death of coral reefs in the Indian Ocean-stretching from South Africa to India, plus all those islands-have provided dramatic evidence of global warming. A study
The Philips report into the origins of BSE (mad cow disease) and its human equivalentk, VCJD, was a cautious, unhysterical document. But if the release of the report last week was meant to help calm
In 1998, 16% of the world's coral reefs, in a swathe stretching from Brazil to the Indian Ocean, were severely damaged by what is known as "coral bleaching". One of the results of the ninth
Chidabaram Subramaniam, a green leader of India, died on November 7th, aged 90. It was Subramaniam who got the wheat, a new variety growing, skilfully guiding the project through India's bureaucratic
Amid much fanfare, a UN summit on global warming is being held in the Netherlands. Should anybody care? : a
