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 council for the Protection of Rural England is pressing the government to close planning loopholes it says allow environmentally damaging developments to slip through the net. The CPRE said local
Powerject Pharmaceuticals, developer of a painless inejction system, has been awarded a European patent covering its DNA vaccine technology. This enables DNA to be delivered into the body by
Fake harvest reports in pursuit of an 8% growth pledge recall the days of the Great Leap Forward in China : a
Fines for health and safety offences are too low, the UK Court of Appeal has said, adding that they may in some cases need to be big enough to put a company out of business. The ruling is likely to
Opposition to genetically modified food is growing in the UK and Germany, according to a surveys carried out for Monsanto, the US life sciences group that has been at the forefront of introducing GM
British supplies of a blood product given to 80,000 pregnant women a year are still being used months after they were banned because of the risk of transmitting new variant CJD, the government
Roche, the Swiss pharmaceuticals group, has suffered its third setback over new drugs in little more than a year, following a European Union decision to halt sales of Tasmar, a drug for treating
The hotel industry is moving up gear on environmental action. This year's World Travel Market will have a day set aside for talks and debates on the subject, organised by the World Travel and Tourism
The threat of a New Year trade row between the European Union and the US over trade in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals containing cattle ingredients was lifted when the European Commission unveiled a
Health and happiness are commonly linked, but two scientific studies published claim to have identified for the first time a direct casual link between changes of mood and the way the immune system
