UNICEF Innocenti's Report Card 17 explores how 43 OECD/EU countries are faring in providing healthy environments for children. Beyond children’s immediate environments, over-consumption in some of the world’s richest countries is destroying children’s environments globally. This threatens both children worldwide and future generations. To provide all children with safe and …
THE United Nations was to halt food hand-outs for up to 800,000 Palestinians yesterday because of a severe fuel shortage in Gaza brought on by an Israeli economic blockade. John Ging, the director of operations in Gaza for the UN Relief and Works Agency, which supports Palestinian refugees, said there …
Gazans Eat Endangered Turtle "As Good As Viagra" GAZA STRIP: April 7, 2008 GAZA - A rare giant sea turtle caught on a beach near Gaza City was slaughtered and eaten by Palestinian fishermen who said its blood was an aphrodisiac, among other therapeutic qualities. As the turtle's throat was …
Barely a few days before Israel pulled out its forces from Gaza, its incursion had choked off chlorine supplies to the coastal strip, making water-borne epidemics imminent. The Coastal Municipalities Water Utility posted a newspaper advertisement on February 27 warning the region's 1.5 million residents that one-third of Gaza's water …
Climate change, growing populations and political concerns are prompting governments and investors from California to China to take a fresh look at desalination. March 20, 2008
It's a major polluter of the air. It is responsible for emissions of fine particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and ozone. It affects large segments of the population in every part of the country. But something may finally be done to ameliorate the problem of vehicular pollution in …
There's good news and bad news when it comes to air quality in Israel. On the one hand, Israel's annual monitoring report for 2006 reveals improvements in air pollution, especially when it comes to pollution from transportation sources in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. On the other hand, the situation is …
are you using a Windows 2000 platform for your online money transactions? It could be unsafe because there are bugs in the pseudorandom number generator (prng) of the programme. This helps others access your private information including credit card numbers and passwords. prng controls a crucial component of encryption for …
genetic cracker: There's hope for people suffering from Huntington's disease. The lethal disease is programmed in the genes and appears at a predictable age in adulthood, causing a decline in mental functions and finally death. Such diseases are caused by an unusual genetic mutation; a three-letter piece of the gene …
Cotton is the most important textile fibre and contributes to 62 percent of the Indian Textile Industry's requirement. Among the different quality groups, the ELS Cotton of 35 mm and above is in great demand world over for the manufacture of high quality ring spun yarns.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has urged Israel to immediately ease restrictions on the waters off the Gaza Strip. The request comes at the beginning of annual fishing high season. The UN body noted that Israel's restrictions have hit more than 40,000 people of the …
At least nine people were killed and many injured after a septic cesspool flooded a village in the Gaza Strip on March 27, 2007. As the cesspool, containing 20,000 cubic metres of sewage water, released a torrent of putrid water and waste, it buried 250 houses in the village of …
A new English-language fm radio station intended to promote Israeli-Palestinian dialogue has begun operations. ram fm, operating from Ramallah in the West Bank, is backed by a South African group which had operated a station
Lebanon to sue Israel: Lebanon is preparing legal action to sue Israel for damages over a huge oil spill, which occurred when Israeli warplanes bombed the Jiyyeh power station on the Mediterranean coast off Beirut in mid-July. The bombing spilled around 110,000 barrels of oil into the sea and has …
how do microbes adjust to wide variations in temperature? To understand this, a team of scientists led by Avigdor Scherz of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel compared two different kinds of photosynthetic bacteria
it may sound incredible, but the mobile phone network may soon be used to measure rainfall. The strength of signals in a cellular network varies with humidity, claims a study by scientists from the University of Tel Aviv in Israel. Thus, existing wireless communication systems can also be used as …
controlling agricultural pests through their natural predators is environmentally preferable to using pesticides, which contaminate the soil, groundwater and even the food grown. However, raising natural predators and supplying them works out to be more expensive than resorting to pesticides. But now, a group of Israeli and Dutch scientists has …
Following a truce between Israel and the Hizbollah, cleanup of the huge oil spill off the coast of Lebanon has begun. Around 15,000 tonnes of oil had spilled into the Mediterranean after the Jiyyeh power plant near Beirut was hit in an Israeli airstrike between July 13 and 15 (see
holocaust-denial laws are the ultimate bunkum. Just think about it. The state of Israel has used the history of the Nazis to perpetrate untold miseries on the Arab world. This is not a rant. Think about recent history. The Western powers divided west Asia, creating Israel, a Jewish oasis in …
