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 World Health Organisation yesterday launched negotiations on a framework treaty to curb tobacco use and cut the toll of smoking-related deaths in the next century. The treaty, the first
A bitter conflict over agriculture was last night threatening efforts by leading World Trade Organisation members to hammer out an outline agenda for a new world trade round to be launched this
European Union governments last night backed plans to require companies to provide information labels on foods if the genetically modified content rises above a specified
Doctors in the US are pioneering a revolutionary surgical procedure to eliminate brain cancers which in the past have either been inoperable or which surgery has failed to eradicate. Led by Harry
Deciphering the genes of dogs and horses is reducing their suffering and could improve human health. The Animal Health Trust, the UK veterinary research charity, has taken a lead in investigating
A leading conservation charity denounced the British government for failing to halt the illegal trade in protected species such as iguana, queen conch shells and black coral in the Caribbean Overseas
Monsanto, the US agricultural biotechnology and pharmaceuticals group that has been at the centre of the controversy over genetically modified foods, said yesterday it expects to sell its
Scientists advising the UK government are disputing European Union claims that recent findings on hormone-treated bef strengthen the case for a ban on imports of the meat. Their conclusions,
Across the river from Quelimane, the quiet capital of Mozambique's rural Zambezia province, around 20 hectares of ponds and low-rise revolutionise the country's prawn
The European Commission is considering an early ban on one of four antibiotics still allowed in animal feed amid fears that it could reduce the effects of similar drugs on people. Environmental
