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
Being a conservationist can be dangerous. On November 17th Juan Chavez, the director of the Charles Darwin Research Station on the Galapagos Islands, had to be rescued from a mangrove swamp by
Ford Motor Company's Rouge Complex, near Detroit had become an environmental nightmare, its soil laced with carcinogens and heavy metals. A team of environmentalists and industrialists is now
Politicians and the public should not rush to judgement over the damage caused by rough weather in Britain this week : a
Leprosy persists among the world's poor despite a decade of the WHO's best attempts at eliminating it. Will the stalemate ever break? : a
Over most of Kenya last week the heavens opened. The whole country, from pastoralists caring for their dying herds to city dwellers chasing loans to pay for power supplies, rejoiced at what seemed to
The collapse of the UN summit on global warming is not the disaster that many claim. Global warming is at least a 100-year problem. It is ridiculous to suggest that the earth is in sudden peril
For all their pride in their Union's open borders, there are some things that Europeans would rather not share with their neighbours. One is bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow
The world's coral reefs are in a parlous condition. A little hard-headed economics would help. Overfishing of reefs, and the need to deal with it, was one of the main topics under discussion at the
Tony Blair's plan to reform Britain's National Health Service is not nearly radical enough to cure its deep-seated ills : a
For decades, the Marlboro Man has ridden across advertising's imagined American West to promote the manly attributes of cigarette smoking. But three years ago, in California, a new kind of Marlboro
