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
The Belgian Agriculture Ministry said it had shut two dairy farms following the deaths of at least four cows since early December from a mysterious disease that could be linked to animal feed. The
Growing worldwide controversy about the use of biotechnology particularly in agricultural production, is creating an urgent need to develop globally agreed policies on the issue. Regrettably, this
The Indian federal government has put rice imports from Pakistan under watch. This follows the government ban on the import of cotton from across the border, allegedly on grounds of health
The US and the European Union are heading for another embarrassing confrontation over the scope of global trade rules, only weeks after the failure of the World Trade Organisation talks in Seattle.
A government report has ranked London as the world's cleanest bigh city-- ahead of Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles. The study by researchers at Imperial College London, argues that the risks from air
Delta & PIne, the US cottonseed specialist, has filed a lawsuit against Monsanto, the US life sciences group, claiming compensatory damages of not less than $1 bn, after the larger company failed to
India's already had relations with Pakistan have been further strained by yesterday's decision by New Delhi to ban imports of cotton from its neighbour on the grounds that it was supposedly
Cambodia's deputy prime minister yesterday accused a provincial governor and other senior officials of being behind an illegal logging racket in the north-east of the country. Sar Kheng told a
The genetically engineered food revolution has at last fulfilled a long-term promise by developing a product aimed at improving health in developing countries: a nutritionally superior yellow rice.
An international research team has found a new approach to reating Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other fatal brain diseases. A peptide (small protein molecule) reverses the damage caused by CJD in
