State of the world's nursing 2025
<p>Central to the achievement of the Agenda for Sustainable Development is an adequate, equitably distributed and fully supported health workforce. Nurses are the largest occupational group and represent
Europe
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In the red with green measures
European companies fear that the plethora of environmental protection laws may blunt their competitive edge
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Russia's role raises hopes and fears
With Russia participating in the first unified space station project, international cooperation reaches new heights. But there are also doubts about the US led venture.
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Science cannot be a minion to wealth
A journalist without the pretensions of a scientist that's how JOHN MADDOX, editor of Nature for 15 years, would like to see himself. On his recent tour of India, Maddox talked to SUMANTA PAL on what went wrong with science and scientific establishment
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A way out for India
Indian fridge manufacturers are juggling their options for a substitute for ozone-depleting substances and some are looking at a revived technology that will no longer make them dependent on Western companies.
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India catching up fast
An Indian laboratory has produced a CFC substitute that only a few other multinationals have made.
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The Greenfreeze revolution
Green fridges now make up around 20 per cent of the fridges sold in Germany and are also becoming popular in other parts of the world.
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Options to Chloroflurocarbons
What the Indian refrigeration industry is looking at
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Rustling for hair
THE VICUNA, South America's graceful camelid coveted for its soft, silky hair, is falling prey to well-organised gangs of international rustlers "working for brokers within Latin America who then
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Panchayats, European style
WHAT CAN you do, as a citizen of India, if someone decides to set up a power plant or a polluting factory in your neighbourhood? Probably precious little. You could appeal to the local pollution
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No wood, no pests
IN A BID to protect its forests from a voracious, microscopic pest called the pinewood nematode, the European Community (EC) has banned imports of untreated softwood lumber from Canada. The ban