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
Afghanistan is now losing its last trees for firewood, or for export by the Pakistan based logging mafia. The latest estimates are that forest cover is now below 0.5% of the country's land, down from
Most of the 1,400 haemophiliacs in Japan who contracted HIV through contaminated blood products got the disease in 1983. Eighteen years later, the doctor at the centre of this tragedy has at last
With Napster, online music came to symobolise the end of copyright in the digital realm. But rights holders are fighting back : a
An international effort has been launched to help the Kabul zoo. With the Afghanistan now very much in the news, American and European zoo association are flying to the rescue of Kabul 's zoo.
These days, when Bill Northey, an Iowa farmer, harvests his soya beans, he vacuums every last bean from his combine. Mixing a few legumes, between crops may not seem like a big deal, but his Japanese
After nine years of trade warfare that blew hot and cold, America and the European Union agreed to a new regime for importing bananas into the EU. The European and American trade supremos, Pascal
Organic farming may indeed, as its practitioners have long claimed, be better for the environment and produce tastier food than its rivals. Sales of organically produced food, though small, have been
Powerful medicines can have powerful side-effects, sometimes clouding judgement or blunting reactions. As the public debate over how to get expensive rich world medicines to poor countries shows,
The weekend summit in Quebec will concentrate on the creation of a Free-Trade Area of the Americas. The Bush Administration is all for it; South America's biggest economy, Brazil, is not so
"Sustainable management" could help to save the Amazonian rainforest without harming economic development. The deforestation mostly in the past 30 years, of 14% of Brazilian part of Amazonia has been
