Spain 2021: energy policy review
The International Energy Agency (IEA) regularly conducts in-depth peer reviews of the energy policies of its member countries. This process supports energy policy development and encourages the exchange
Spain
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Return Of The Mutants
Of all the potential global disasters that we periodically list and examine, only one has threatened repeatedly to become a reality: the flu, a variety of which is now spreading quickly across the world. A global flu epidemic seems a feeble threat compared to an asteroid impact or a nuclear holocaust, which nobody has encountered.
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Flu, Mostly Mild, Has Spread Across U.S., Officials Say
Swine flu has become widespread in the United States, with 226 cases in 30 states and more expected to turn up in additional states in the next few days, federal health officials said Sunday.
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Nations scramble to halt spread of flu
Slowly but surely, the virus commonly known as swine flu continued to spread across the globe Friday, as the number of confirmed cases rose from 257 to 331, the World Health Organization in Geneva reported.
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More countries confirm arrival of swine flu
The World Health Organization said Thursday that a new flu strain continued to spread, particularly in Mexico and the U.S., but refrained from declaring a global pandemic even as more countries confirmed cases.
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EU Promises Tighter Fishing Laws To Protect Sharks
- European Union ministers called on Thursday for urgent action to tighten hunting controls on sharks, which are seriously threatened by chronic overfishing and one of the world's most vulnerable predators.
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India, Spain sign trade pact
Sugandhi Ravindranathan IT
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EU Greenhouse Emissions Fall - Because It's Warmer
European Union emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for stoking global warming fell by 1.2 percent in 2007, paradoxically aided by a mild winter that cut heating demand, EU data showed on Friday. Emissions by the 27-nation bloc in 2007, before the current global economic downturn, dipped to 9.2 percent below a 1990 benchmark year under the UN's Kyoto Protocol for fighting climate change.
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Robot fish to catch pollution
The sea of northern Spain is shortly to be invaded - by robots. Scientists are building a shoal of robot fish to be let loose in the port of Gijon to check on the quality of the water. Modelled on carp and costing about
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Robot fish to hunt down pollution
Something fishy is going on in northern Spain. The waters of the port of Gijon are shortly to be invaded
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In Spain's coal country, an effort to trap carbon
MADRID: El Bierzo, a mountainous region in Spain's northwest, is undergoing a remarkable makeover financed by the government, the European Union and private industry. Once the center of a major coal mining industry, and still sitting on some of the country's biggest reserves, the region went into economic decline, with mass unemployment, when the industry collapsed in the late 1980s.