The report presents a mixed picture. Over the past 25 years, there have been notable improvements in child well-being in the group of countries examined in this report: steady decline in child mortality, overall reduction in adolescent suicide and increase in school completion rates. But the last five years have …
THE World Bank has sanctioned a $11.54-million biodiversity and natural resource management programme in Turkey. The Global Environment Facility is contributing a $8.2 million equivalent grant while $3.35 million is coming from the Turkish government. The project will cover four selected biodiversity conservation sites in the country and will establish …
for the second time in three months, a devastating earthquake rocked Turkey's north-western province of Bolu on November 12, killing nearly 400 people and injuring more than 3,000. The earthquake measured 7.2 on the Richter scale and destroyed some 300 buildings, reducing hundreds of houses to rubble. The earthquake on …
activists of the environmental pressure group Greenpeace have raised concerns over a plan for building a nuclear power plant in Turkey's earthquake prone zone. Greenpeace spokesperson Melda Keskin called on Canada, Germany, Japan, France, the UK and the US to stop putting pressure on the Turkish government to buy nuclear …
the earth underneath Greece and Turkey is fracturing like a pane of glass, increasing the possibility of further tremors in the region, says seismologist James Jackson of the earth sciences department at Cambridge University, the uk . "However, we're not very good at predicting whether the fault will move tomorrow …
the Turkish government has placed the town of Golcuk in quarantine to guard against the spread of diseases following the devastating earthquake in the second week of August. The naval base in the town was also sealed. Only those with special passes were allowed to travel in or out of …
for the residents of Izmit, Turkey, the nightmare began in the wee hours of August 17. As the entire nation was violently jolted awake by the century's most powerful earthquake, the town's oil refinery near Golcuk went up in flames
The hazards posed by the blazing oil refinery caused by Tuesday morning's earthquake in Izmit, Turkey, though reported to be under control, may have far-reaching and serious consequences. Six of the 30 storage tanks containing 700,000 tonnes of crude oil went up in a blaze. Some 12 hours later, the …
a wildlife-loving Turkish police officer spearheaded the rescue of 50 endangered loggerhead sea turtles trapped in fishing nets off the southern coast of Turkey. Officer Okay Sutcuoglu organised a group of fishing boats to travel 30 km from the town of Tarsus and rescue the snared turtles. However, three of …
in an attempt to stop operation of hazardous waste plant in Izmit, Turkey, Greenpeace activists blocked the entrance of the plant recently. The incinerator had been operating despite a closure order from the nation's ministry of environment. Kocaeli Environmental Protection Association ( kepa ), a local environmental group, also took …
And now a solar air heating system that would help keep your house warm. Scientists at the Turkish International Co-operation Agency have devised the system. It is designed to transfer solar energy acquired in the southern sunspace of an apartment to the northern glazed space through air ducts placed in …
for the people of Karain, a small village in central Anatolia, Turkey, cancer is a way of life. Over the last several decades, cancer has led to the death of over half of its population. There are several explanations for the high rate of cancer cases. Many local homes are …
THE agriculture ministry will look into the reported presence of the Karnal bunt infection in one of the consignments of Indian wheat to Turkey. The Turkish agriculture ministry had rejected the wheat saying that its inspectors had detected Karnal bunt fungus in it. The ministry made it clear that Turkey …
The climate over parts of Turkey was severely affected in 1991-92 by heavy smoke billowing from Kuwaiti oil-wells set ablaze in the Gulf War. Hunay Evliya, a chemistry professor in the southern Turkish town of Adana, said the smoke led to black rain and the winter was the coldest recorded …
As the Association of Food Technology-Turkey, we are honored to hold once again an important international congress on food science and technology, as we did in 2010 with a great success. The 2nd International Congress on Food Technology will be held in the peninsula Kuşadası of Turkey on 05-07 November …
2nd International Conference on Advances in Environment, Agriculture & Medical Sciences (ICAEAM'15) scheduled on June 11-12, 2015 at Antalya (Turkey) aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results about all aspects of Environment, Agriculture & Medical Sciences, and discuss …
The seventh International Conference on Sustainable Development and Planning builds upon a series that started in 2003 in Skiathos, Greece, followed by other meetings in Bologna (2005), Algarve (2007), Cyprus (2009), New Forest, UK (2011), and Kos, Greece (2013).The Conference addresses subjects of regional development in an integrated way as …
The fourth International Conference on Disaster Management is being reconvened following the success of the previous three meetings, held at Wessex Institute in the New Forest in 2009, the University of Central Florida in Orlando, USA in 2011 and A Coruña, Spain in 2013.This series of conferences originated with the …
The aim objective of International Conference on Chemical, Agricultural and Biological Sciences (CABS-2015) is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Chemical, Agricultural and Biological Sciences. The conference will be …
The 2015 5th International Conference on Biotechnology and Food Science (ICBFS 2015) will be held during April 24-25, 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey. ICBFS 2015, is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Biotechnology and Food Science to a common forum.The primary goal of the conference …
