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 …
It has long been known that 20 gene regulators control the development of blood cells from blood stem cells in the bone marrow. All these regulators have a common genetic element, called PU.1, which plays a crucial role in regulating blood cell formation. PU.1 guides the development of two major …
The European Union (eu) could not convert Europe's grain stock to biofuel as German traders made no bids to sell 200,000 tonnes of rye for processing into bioethanol. Rye is produced in massive volumes by East German farmers although it is no longer in demand. Thus, eu's grain management committee …
Lithuania is up in arms against a recent gas pipeline agreement between Germany and Russia. The pipeline under the Baltic Sea would disturb stockpiles of Hitler's chemical weapons lying on the bed of the Baltic Sea and would lead to an environmental disaster, warns Lithuanian prime minister Algirdas Brazauskas. Analysts …
The fifa F ootball World Cup 2006 in Germany is set to go green with the Green Goal Initiative (ggi), a project of the event's organising committee. ggi seeks to reduce the sport's environmental impact by targeting four key areas: water, refuse, energy and mobility. The aim is to reduce …
scientists in Germany have isolated a strain of bacteria from a uranium waste pile, which can be used to clean up toxic dumps. Bacillus sphaericus jg -a12 survives in highly toxic environments by accumulating heavy metals such as uranium, cadmium and lead in its outermost layer, according to the group …
function table() { var popurl="image/20050815/21-graph.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=320,height=320,scrollbars=yes") } oxides of nitrogen are significant pollutants present in emissions, especially from diesel vehicles. Generally, the ambient concentrations of oxides of nitrogen (nox) in many ban areas in developed countries have fallen steeply over the past ten years as old high-emitting diesel technologies have …
sleepless babies: Newborn dolphins and killer whales don't sleep for a whole month after birth, says a study by a team led by Jerome Siegel of the University of California at Los Angeles, US. The mothers also stay awake over the period to keep a close eye on their offspring. …
Camel experts from research institutions and non-government organisations in India, France, Germany, Kazakhstan, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and the UK met at the training centre of Lokhit Pashu-Palak Sansthan near Mammaji-ki-dhuni at Sadri, District Pali, Rajasthan, India, on 23-25 November 2004, and came up with the following recommendations: • …
1975: Rasheed Jamshed becomes the first markhor trophy hunter 1983: A trophy hunting scheme is formally launched. Foreign hunters invited 1990: Germany and the UK move a case at CITES to ban export of markhor trophy to prevent its poaching and extinction. Pakistan says the fears are unfounded. CITES puts …
babies born via a caesarean operation are prone to various health problems, says research conducted by B Laubereau and co-workers from the Institute of Epidemiology, Germany. They studied 865 neonates who were breast-fed during their first four months. Data were obtained by follow-up visits when the babies were 1, 4, …
german farmers cultivating genetically modified (gm) crops will now be responsible for the contamination caused to non-gm crops in neighbouring fields. They will also have to record, in a public register, all the land they use for gm cultivation. These are some provisions of a new law passed by the …
After crushing a French environmentalist to death, a shipment of nuclear waste reached Germany's Gorleben storage site on November 9, 2004, despite strong protests. The rail convoy of 12 containers, heavily guarded by 11,000 German police, was forced to stop at several places in its route from La Hague reprocessing …
how planets form: Elongated dust clouds, rather than fluffy blobs of dust, are the seeds of planet formation. This is the finding of experiments conducted by J
the International Conference for Renewable Energies ended in Bonn, Germany, on June 4 with governments from around the world pledging to tap renewable energy sources on a larger scale. But there was no agreement on specific targets despite rigorous lobbying by some eu countries, including Germany, towards this end. India …
The International Conference for Renewable Energies is to be held in Bonn, Germany. But here is a sector dwarfed by fossil fuels, and although governments can proactively root for renewables, and some have, the options given to developing countries are quite limiting. After travelling in Germany and the UK, the …
There is a prominently held view that dissemination of renewable energy technology is marred by high costs. It's true that a few technologies like wind power have become cheaper, but others are still expensive. Solar photovoltaics (PV) and wind energy now cost one tenth of what they did in early …
