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
When the new millennium dawns Japan will pay nearly as much into United Nations coffers as the US, the single largest contributor-if it pays-under the latest financing scheme passed by the General
The introduction of landfill taxes is creating a serious shortage of material to fill and landscape former quarries and mines, according to an industry survey conducted in UK. The Quarry Products
Now their quest to protect the environment has evolved from a batty sideshow into a mainstream issue for governments and big business, environmentalists have smartened up their act. Their
A nationwide survey in UK of 3,500 farms aimed at establishing whether bovine spongiform encephalopathy has spread to sheep is to be undertaken in the new
Many leaders support the widespread view among the general public that industrial and business practices should be more environmentally friendly, ethical and more sustainable. But how do they make
The World Bank Board is set to endorse recommendations for a new strategy to help its clients address environmental sustainability while boosting their economies.
The scientific base for the introduction of genetically modified crops has been seriously undermined by lack of funding for public sector research, the chairman of a big international conference on
A growing group of Americans are putting pressure on giant pharmaceuticals companies over the prices they charge in the US. Through a website posted by the United Health Alliance physicians group,
Xenova, the UK biotechnology company, will an expanded clinical trial of the world's first vaccine against cocaien
Information technology can be a "powerful enabler of development" in less industrialised countries, says a report due to be published before the Group of Eight summit in Genoa. The research is
