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 …
As George W. Bush stepped briskly into the White House for the signing ceremony in the afternoon of October 8, the gathering that included Ronen Sen, India's ambassador to the US, was aware that they were witnessing a rare and historic moment. Bush looked much the cat that got the …
Higher levels of pollution in Asia may affect the formation of clouds high in the Himalayas, perhaps disrupting monsoons and speeding a thaw of glaciers, according to a study on Monday. The report, by scientists in France and Italy, found microscopic particles in the air that can be seeds for …
VICTORIOUS: Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has been a strong advocate of a ban on smoking (Reuters) The verdict is clear. Smokers will no longer be able to light up whenever and wherever they please. The Centre
France, Germany and Austria called on Friday for an easing of EU climate ambitions to help industries facing an economic downturn, causing green groups to warn that the battle against climate change was in jeopardy. The European Union hopes other nations will follow its lead by agreeing a global deal, …
The unwavering predictability and scale of the tides in some parts of the world make them an attractive renewable energy source. Some estimates put the energy in the world's tides at as much as 1 million GWh per year, or about 5 per cent of the electricity generated worldwide, though …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President George W. Bush meet in Hokkaido, Japan, on the sidelines of the G8 summit in July. AT the end of a three-day, marathon sitting at the second round of the Plenary Session of the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers Group from September 4 to 6 in …
France, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, yesterday proposed watering down plans to curb greenhouse gas emissions from cars by phasing in limits up to 2015, with lower fines for narrowly missing the target. The European Commission has called for COj cuts from cars of 18 per cent by 2012 …
nsg India gets into nuclear family On September 6, the 45-member nuclear suppliers group (nsg) lifted its 16-year-old embargo on nuclear commerce with India. The tough negotiations in Vienna went down to the wire after China, which had sounded positive in the run-up to the nsg meeting took a different …
THE lights don't go out in Germany and France until you switch them off. And that's most of what they have in common. Three-quarters of the electricity in France is nuclear; in Germany it's a quarter. France is adding to its nuclear capacity, Germany is committed to phasing out nuclear …
Parisian pollution is nothing compared with that of Beijing or Mexico City. Yet Paris, with 11 million people crammed into a region just 20 kilometres across, is to take centre stage in a new research project on the impact of megacities on air pollution. The MEGAPOLI project, which starts next …
Eiffel Tower London, Sept 1 : The Eiffel tower is set to loose its sparkle, as the administration has decided to cut its glittering light in a new green initiative. State, the company sub-contracted by Paris to run the tower, has decided to cut the time bulbs are run by …
FLAMANVILLE, France: It looks like an ordinary building site, but for the two massive, rounded concrete shells looming above the ocean, like dusty mushrooms. Here on the Normandy coast, France is building its newest nuclear reactor, alongside two older ones. It is the first reactor to be built in the …
Germans were once dead set against nuclear energy. But high energy costs are forcing them to rethink. The latest casualty of the rising cost of energy is one of Europe's most persistent political taboos: Germany's striking aversion to nuclear power. Nowhere else did the opposition to atomic energy become as …
