Liu Xiao spends her weeks visiting sludge and organic waste treatment plants across China. The travel can be tiring but as a technical and policy adviser on waste management she must help implement President
Researchers have used a supercomputer programme to trace the origins of the Aids virus to about 1930, earlier than had once been thought. Scientists at the Conference on Retroviruses used average
European Union motor manufacturers face an environmental clean-up bill of up to $24.75 bn after the European Parliament yesterday backed laws forcing the industry to take back unwanted cars and pay
The European Commission yesterday laid out plans for dispersing up to $3.6bn to central and eastern European countries seeking EU membership to help them overcome "huge structural weaknesses" in
A study by Tufts University in massachusetts found that the European agnecy for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA) has matched the FDA in the time it takes to register a new drug, cutting
Glaxo Wellcome has written to 36,000 UK family doctors, warning that Relenza, its controversial flu drug, may have harmful side-effects in rare cases. The warning, also sent to physicians across
Sonera SmartTrust, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Finnish international telecommunications operator, has developed technology that can turn any mobile phone into the electronic equivalent of a
A Cambodian provincial governor and a score of other senior officials involved in illegal logging are to be arrested and prosecuted, Hun Sen, the prime minister, said. This will be first time legal
The World Health Organisation is expanding its work on food safety issues in response to the growing incidence of food borne diseases and public concern on the safety of genetically-modified foods.
Britain's ban on using frozen eggs for in vitro fertilisation was lifted. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority said evidence from Italy and the US, where there have been at least 28 live
Growing US concern about gene-therapy - which seeks to treat diseases by altering human DNA - will be highlighted next week with US Senate subcommittee hearings on the death of a teenager involved in
