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 …
By John P. Holdren Published: August 4, 2008 The few climate-change "skeptics" with any sort of scientific credentials continue to receive attention in the media out of all proportion to their numbers, their qualifications, or the merit of their arguments. And this muddying of the waters of public discourse is …
- Siliguri company gets ready to send produce to Europe AVIJIT SINHA Dominique Coulombel (second from left) and Laury Bouchard (fourth from left) at the Rainbow factory on Saturday. A Telegraph picture Kantivita (Phansidewa), Aug. 3: A Siliguri-based company has invested more than Rs 10 crore to raise a food …
geology Climate change in ice age Greenland ice core analysis showed drastic climate change near the end of last ice age. Scientists have found two huge temperature spikes in the Northern Hemisphere prior to the close of the last ice age, about 11,500 years ago. They ascribe it to fundamental …
launching websites may become cheaper with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (icann) deciding to expand domain names from .com and .org to anything after the dot.
Success of popular bike-sharing system spawns new idea Green dreams: Mayor Bertrand Delanoe launches the Velib cycles in Paris in July 2007. PARIS: Paris' ambitious Mayor has a new "green dream' after the spectacular success of his bike-sharing scheme launched a year ago: a version for electric cars. Under Bertrand …
The French government on Thursday ordered an investigation into the water table around all of France's 58 nuclear reactors in an effort to dispel fears raised by a leak from a treatment plant run by Areva in southern France. Jean-Louis Borloo, ecology minister, has asked an independent committee to carry …
Meeting For IAEA Board Members & Some In NSG Only IN A last-minute change of plan, India has decided to reduce the number of countries it will brief on the IAEA-India specific safeguards agreement and keep the IAEA secretariat out of the picture for the July 18 meeting. Instead of …
One week ahead of crucial talks on global trade, the European Union negotiator, Peter Mandelson, rejected on Monday sharp criticisms from the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and called for unity in advance of the discussions. Mr. Mandelson's comments underline the tensions on trade policy between the European Commission and Mr. …
France will extend its support to India during the forthcoming meeting of the board of governors of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the 45-member Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG), relating to the Indo-US nuke deal. This assurance was given last week by Caron Oliviera, director of external relations of French …
scientists may have found a new approach to muscular dystrophy, a fatal genetic disorder characterized by weakening of skeletal muscles. Not much is known about how the disease manifests itself. Recently, however, a team of French and German researchers found that a kind of muscular dystrophy is caused due to …
PARIS: The Paris City Council on Tuesday moved to scrap a 30-year-old ban on high-rise buildings inside the city walls. The decision could spell a revolution for the French capital's skyline. The Socialist Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoe, has championed a change to rules that limit the height of inner-city …
Decades of investment in civilian nuclear power puts france in the energy catbird seat. France ranks 10th in the EPI because of its supply of clean energy. Being poor in oil and coal might once have been considered a disadvantage, but not for France. Forty years ago necessity led Charles …
France, as the next head of the E.U., faces the challenge of adopting clean fuel and finding new energy sources. An overhead network of gas pipelines at a refuelling terminal in Lille. Almost 100,000 tonnes of local organic waste is treated annually to produce biogas which is used to run …
Threat To Some Endangered Species Is Up To A Hundred Times Greater Than Previously Thought Paris: Some endangered species may face an extinction risk that is up to a hundred times greater than previously thought, according to a study released on Wednesday. By overlooking random differences between individuals in a …
As was clear from a wide-ranging survey of nutrition issues at last month's Pacific Health Summit in Seattle, Washington, behavioural change is a key element in tackling the twin crises of under-nutrition and obesity, which are all too easily forgotten in the competition for the world's attention. (Editorial)
France is to slap an annual green tax on high-emission cars, such as sports utility vehicles, and extend punitive taxes to more environmentally damaging products in an attempt to revolutionise consumer behaviour and combat climate change. Jean-Louis Borloo, ecology minister, said on Tuesday that the government's carrot-and-stick "bonus-malus' tax system …
Disunity and recrimination marked the start of France's European Union presidency on Tuesday as Nicolas Sarkozy exchanged accusations with the European Commission over world trade talks. The French president denounced Peter Mandelson, EU trade commissioner, in a television interview on Monday evening for allegedly selling out EU farmers
The city of Chennai has to make herculean tasks to overcome the transportation problems created in the city because of the spatial and economic growth experienced in the city during the last decade. The transport sector needs careful and planned expansion if it is not to cause a strain on …
