Huge hydroelectric dam approved in Brazil's Amazon
Brazil granted an environmental license on Monday for the construction of a controversial hydroelectric dam in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.The $17bn project on the Xingu River in the northern state of Para will help the fast-growing Latin American country cope with soaring demand for electricity but has raised concern about its impact on... Read More
Prepare now for the global water crisis
Mounting pressure on water resources from food production and growing cities is pushing us towards an impending water crisis, warns Anders Berntell, director of the Stockholm International Water Institute. From now on, climate change is not just about being energy wise. It's about being water wise tooBusiness needs to get wise about water, and fast. You can’t talk about climate change and ignore water – the two are umbilically linked. That’s the message from Anders Berntell of th... Read More
Bulgaria repeats no GMO pledge
10/02/2010 |
Bulgaria's farm minister has announced that the government would not allow GM food in shops but stopped short of saying whether Sofia would declare the Balkan country GM-free...
Saving endangered species: it's the economy
03/02/2010 |
On a Pacific beach in Costa Rica, a researcher whispers the number after counting the slimy, round white eggs just laid by a rare leatherback turtle in a hole dug in the sand under...
Gene technique zooms in on superbug
22/01/2010 |
Scientists have found a way to track minutely-differing strains of MRSA as they spread between people, a finding that could aid efforts to control the bacteria....
A green imperative
21/12/2009 |
Companies like Climate Change Capital are encouraging investment in green initiatives, and establishing schemes which could be vital to our future...
Lightbulb moment
21/12/2009 |
The Economic and Ecological benefits of Energy Efficient Lighting involve tackling three crises with one solution writes Harry Verhaar of Philips Lighting BV...
Necessity is the mother of invention
21/12/2009 |
In the Gulf of Mexico, one oil platform sits alone – further out to sea and in water depths never before ventured. Getting it there has been a feat of engineering and technical inn...
Blocking memories
18/12/2009 | Julie Steenhuysen
Researchers have found a drug-free way to block fearful memories, opening up the possibility of new treatment approaches for problems such as post traumatic stress disorder...
Finding new uses for information
21/08/2009 | Hongwei Zhu
On the web, innovative data reuse is yielding opportunities and legal questions...
R & D hotspot
21/08/2009 | Rina Chandran
At Microsoft's research centre in a leafy lane in India's tech capital, a new generation of researchers are being groomed half a world away from the software giant's sprawling head...
The key to ending hunger
21/08/2009 | Thomas Hager
The recent news that two-thirds of adults in the United States are overweight or obese – and the number continues to grow – brings to mind a question that has bothered me since the...
Biomimicry in action
20/08/2009 |
A self-proclaimed nature nerd, Janine Benyus' concept of biomimicry has galvanized scientists, architects, designers and engineers into exploring new ways in which nature's success...
Cleared for take-off
21/05/2009 | Alison Chambers
Some 10,000 commercial aircraft take off and land each day with help from ARINC, writes Alison Chambers...
On the verge of creating synthetic life
10/02/2009 | TED
Craig Venter, credited for sequencing the human genome in 2001, talks about the possibility of creating synthetic lifeforms...
Paul Moller on the Skycar
28/01/2009 | TED
Paul Moller gives his ideas on the how we might abandon road based transportation and take to personal air travel...
Surface computing
27/01/2009 | Benjamin Chertoff
A new way of human-computer interaction is unveiled by Microsoft...
Surrounded by friends? It's all in your genes
21/01/2009 | Editing by Cynthia Osterman
Exploring the science behind social dynamics...
A squandered golden opportunity
27/01/2009 | Henry Miller
The potential of genetically modified food to combat health problems in the developing world is being hamstrung by misguided legislation and backward thinking...
Growing out of poverty
28/11/2008 | Jeremy Slater
Agriculture technology can provide answers to the problems facing the worldís poorest, as well as help the economy to start growing again. Jeremy Slater of Croplife writes...
Integrating presence
18/11/2008 | Julia White
Unified Communications (UC) is not a product but an intelligent and time-efficient use of technologies to enable ways of working that improve customer service, reduce transaction c...
Breeding better food
28/11/2008 | Howard Bouis
Howarth Bouis, Director of HarvestPlus, believes that for nutrition and health to improve in poor countries, agriculture has to do more than alleviate hunger - it has to make food ...
Global biotech bid
09/03/2009 | Michael Kahn
Just a few steps from the monastery where Gregor Mendel pioneered the field of genetics some 150 years ago, Czech officials hope to nurture their own biotech revolution...
The quest continues
13/02/2009 |
David Baltimore won the Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1975. Head of the Baltimore Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Baltimore has been a scientific l...
Controversy mounts in EU over fall-out from biofuel
12/02/2010 |
Fresh controversy is mounting within the EU over biofuels and their unintended impact on tropical fo...
55 nations set 2020 carbon goals since Copenhagen
02/02/2010 |
Fifty-five nations accounting for almost 80 percent of world greenhouse gas emissions have set natio...
Internet companies voice alarm over Italian law
26/01/2010 |
Internet companies and civil liberty groups have voiced alarm over a proposed Italian law which woul...
IEA sees world oil use in 2010 highest since 2007
15/01/2010 |
Global oil demand this year will reach the highest level since 2007, with rising consumption led by ...
