Sluggish demand growth for liquefied natural gas (LNG), combined with a record increase in global export capacity through 2028, will likely thrust markets into an extended period of oversupply, according to the latest Global LNG Outlook from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). As major importing regions—including …
The new government of South Korea, among the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases, plans to cap emissions at 2005 levels for the next five years despite Seoul's exemption from cuts under the Kyoto protocol. The environment ministry presented the proposal to freeze emissions until 2012 on Friday in a …
The new government of South Korea, among the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gases, plans to cap emissions at 2005 levels for the next five years in spite of Seoul's exemption from cuts under the Kyoto protocol. The environment ministry presented the proposal to freeze emissions until 2012 in a …
The Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea, bristling with tanks and artillery, has also become a favourite haunt of over 60 endangered species. The camouflage-clad South Korean army officer pointed beyond barbed wire to a trail where enemy agents had been spotted and shot. As he spoke of the …
A controversial nuclear club is taking shape. The UK has signed up to the Bush administration's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) just a few months after it was rubbished as unworkable by the US National Academy of Sciences. The UK joins several other recent recruits, including Canada, Senegal and South …
South Korean president-elect Lee Myung Bakandhis administration will increase the country's share in the global renewable energy market in an effort to help boost economic growth. The new government aims to increase the share to 5% by 2012from 0.8% now, according to a statement from the climate change and energy …
If the Doha Round of negotiations of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is stalemated, a great part of it is because of the resistance of small farmers, including those in Asia. One of the terrible truths of the 20th century is that it was a blight on small farmers or …
numbers phobia: Children with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) have particular difficulty understanding numbers and sequences, a University of Alberta study shows. An assessment of 50 Canadian children diagnosed with FASD, a condition caused by the mother's alcohol consumption while a foetus is still in the womb, revealed that the …
South Korea has begun killing hundreds of fowl, and dogs, cats and pigs in an effort to contain the spread of the deadly h5n1 strain of bird flu. The move came after the country confirmed its second outbreak of avian flu since December 2005. The outbreak came to notice in …
an international consortium of countries, including India, has signed an agreement on November 21, 2006, to build an experimental nuclear fusion reactor to meet the future energy need of the world The multi-billion-dollar (about us $12 billion) project called iter has the eu, the us, Japan, Russia, South Korea and …
scientists have identified a polymer with a very large capacity for storing hydrogen that could be exploited in fuel cells. After a series of computer simulations, Jisoon Ihm and colleagues at the Seoul National University in South Korea discovered that polyacetylene with titanium atoms attached to the polymer chain can …
leaders from 25 European and 13 Asian nations have adopted a declaration to fight global warming, among other things, at the sixth Asia-Europe Meeting Summit held at Helsinki on September 10-11, 2006. The summit is one of a series of meets held every two years since 1996. The leaders undertook …
• South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who is standing trial on charges of fraud and embezzlement for his team's research on stem cells, has resumed work on animal cloning. He has opened a biological research facility in southern Seoul and is working with about 30 of his former lab associates. …
Northeast Students' Organisation (NESO) has launched a campaign among the tribal communities of northeastern states against the proposed tri-nation Indo-Myanmar gas pipeline that will run from Sittwe in Myanmar's Akaran state to Bihar through Bangladesh, Tripura, Assam and Mizoram. neso, a platform of seven student organisations in the region, has …
Food safety authorities in South Korea called on beverage makers to withdraw vitamin- c enriched drinks that were found to contain the carcinogen benzene. The Korea Food and Drug Administration (fda) said that they had detected benzene in 27 out of 30 vitamin c-enriched drinks that were on sale in …
• As many as 57 species of fish in Haryana have disappeared over the past four decades as a result of pollution and high siltation of rivers, a study found. • UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination strongly reprimanded the Botswana government over eviction of the Gana and …
In a landmark judgement, the Seoul High Court has ordered two us -based chemical firms to pay over us $63 million as compensation to South Korea's Vietnam war veterans. The veterans, recruited by the us, were exposed to the defoliant, Agent Orange, used by the us army. The court has …
expectations about the therapeutic potential of stem cells have suffered a setback with the revelation that a technique used for fraudulent research by Woo Suk Hwang of South Korea may still be granted a patent. "As long as an invention is not contrary to scientific laws
South Korean city of Kyongju has accepted to store nuclear dump in exchange for government subsidies worth us $288.2 million and us $5-10 million a year as storage fees. Kyongju city won the vote to host the country's first permanent storage site for nuclear waste beating three other cities vying …
led by the us and Australia, six nations, including India, announced on July 28, 2005, a new pact on climate change, based on voluntary goals and measures. The "Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development (appcd)' focuses on the development of clean technologies, rather than the emissions reduction target approach of the …
