The Global Gender Gap Index annually benchmarks the current state and evolution of gender parity across four key dimensions (Economic Participation and Opportunity, Educational Attainment, Health and Survival, and Political Empowerment). It is the longest-standing index tracking the progress of numerous countries’ efforts towards closing these gaps over time since …
a new study on how eyes develop in a growing embryo overturns the textbook model of the process leading to organ formation. It found that cells that form an organ usually migrate to the place where the organ will be located early on in development rather than the entire tissue …
decline of the alps: Scientists say that the Alps, spread over seven European nations, are now a mere shadow of what they were. A team led by Sean Willett of the University of Washington in the US, has found that the culprit is likely massive erosion, triggered by a sudden …
The eu has agreed in a compromise that its six-year us $65 billion budget for scientific research will fund embryonic human stem-cell research, so long as it does not involve destruction of embryos. The decision avoided an all-out ban on embryonic research, for which some countries had been pushing. The …
The ministry says it received a positive response from prospective investors in India and abroad and states like Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, had also shown interest. The proposed On June 27, 2006, bbc reported that Germany had made unbelievable cuts to its emission targets for the 2008-2012 phase of the …
Dinosaur fossils found in Germany belong to a species (Europasaurus holgeri), of small dinosaurs, say scientists. Over 1,000 fossils dating about 150 million years have been excavated from the Harz mountains. The fossils were thought to be of juvenile sauropods
In the last week of May, two key groups of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) met to negotiate emissions reductions commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. But the subsidiary bodies and the ad hoc working group (awg) failed to achieve any breakthrough in developing a policy to …
This document contains the White paper presented at Workshop on climate change and disaster losses: understanding and attributing trends and projections at Hohenkammer, Munich during 25
It is one of the mysteries of gene regulation. The male of a species has one X-chromosome, the females two. So it would seem that female cells would produce twice as much proteins encoded by X-chromosome as males. But this does not happen. The cells resolve the problem by either …
The Czech government has stepped up border checks and vowed to increase monitoring of remote farmland areas after officials discovered over a dozen sites that German companies were illegally using to dump their waste. The Czech environment ministry is now ascertaining the extent of the illicit waste disposal trade between …
German scientists have warned cat owners to stop snuggling with their pets following the death of a pet cat from the h5 n1 avian flu virus in Ruegen island on February 27. Most of Germany's 120 cases of h5 n1-infected wild birds were found on the island. Scientists at Germany's …
a group of scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (embl) in Heidelberg, Germany, has developed a computational method to reconstruct the tree of life
it is known that people with dark skin are more susceptible to tuberculosis. A recent study has found why this is so. Carried out by researchers from the us and Germany, the study shows that low levels of vitamin d in people with dark skins is the likely reason. The …
Regardless of the amount of hazardous asbestos contained in Le Clemenceau, India imports thousands of tonnes of asbestos and asbestos products every year. Asbestos is imported to India in three categories: • Articles of asbestos cement; • Fabricated asbestos fibres; and • Friction material and articles thereof with a basis …
a chemical technique that Germany used in World War ii may now help break the spiral of ever-rising oil prices. A team of German scientists has perfected the technology of transforming coal into liquid transportation fuels such as diesel and petrol. Since the 1940s, chemical engineers have been using iron …
scientists at the University of Bonn, Germany, have identified a substance in sunflower that can prevent the human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) from reproducing in cell cultures. Called dicaffeoyl quinic acid (dcqa), the chemical is produced when the plant is infected with a fungus Sclerotinia sclerotiorum , which causes the white …
Australia's highest environment penalty of more than us $1 million was recently imposed on a German shipping company for an oil spill in Phillip Island. The court found the ship was knowingly sailing with leaking oil tanks and structural problems, when it left Melbourne for Sydney on February 27, 2003. …
Germany's biodiesel plans look ominous with talks of increasing biodiesel taxes though the tax rate and implementation date are still awaited. The biodiesel industry is obviously peeved. Since its introduction in 1993, the use of biodiesel has been increasing substantially each year. Data shows that in 2004, biodiesel was of …
More than 3,000 anti-nuclear activists attempted to block the delivery of atomic waste from France to the German town of Gorleben, on November 20, 2005. The activists staging a sit-down blockade on the railway track were arrested and farmers' tractors forming a barricade along the route confiscated. The controversial waste …
