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 …
Ceramic bearings can be used safely in industry now that German scien tists at the Fraunhofer Institute For Mechanics of Materials in Freiburg have developed a computer model to predict when they are close to cracking up. The researchers loaded bearings to their breaking point and compared the laboratory results …
the Silver Lake on the outskirts of Bitterfeld, a major industrial town in Saxony-Anhalt, gives proof of the extent of damage caused by polluting industries in the former eastern Germany. The water in the lake is shallow and filthy with no green vegetation growing near it. The ground around the …
a train carrying nuclear waste from the southwestern town of Walheim to Dannenberg in the north has triggered violent protests in several towns en route. On reaching Dannenberg, the waste would be transferred to trucks for the final 19-km journey by road to Gorleben, east of Hanover, where it would …
the German government called upon agricultural and health experts to hold an emergency meeting on January 22, following a report of the confirmation of the nation's first case of bse (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) or the
in september 1995, 84 nations met in Geneva at the third conference on the Basel Convention and agreed to ban the export of toxic wastes. The convention will come into force on January 1, 1998, if 63 of these 84 states including 24 oecd (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) …
environment-technology is "nice to have but ugly to pay for', in the words of Peter Fritz, managing director of Preussag Noell, a German company which deals exclusively with green technology. His grouse reflects the sentiments of an increasing number of German producers who believe that the market for such products …
Pipelines have to be continuously monitored and checked in order to estimate damage. Uptill now this was done by installing flowmeters inside the pipe. Now, using a technique developed by Rostock University, Germany, it is possible to discover what is going on inside a pipeline from outside. Ultrasonic transducers are …
THE days of pointing at a phrase book and loudly asking the way to the railway station in a foreign city - hoping someone would know your language - could soon be over, thanks to a translating computer that Siemens of Germany is set to unveil next month. The Siemens' …
New research on migraine headache shows that it follows a cyclical pattern. Discovering a pattern would help the sufferers anticipate such headaches and take pain relievers in advance to mitigate the suffering. Stephen Evars of the University of Munster, Germany, has just described experiments in which brain waves of people …
Germany has developed a new computer which projects an image of a pc desktop on a plain, flat background. Users select files and applications by holding their hand above the flat surface and pointing to the command they want to activate. These movements are picked up by a camera mounted …
an international project to supply large quantities of hydrogen for use as a transport fuel and to generate electricity will go into operation by the end of the century. Experiments are taking place on hydrogen-powered engines for motor vehicles and for the Airbus, the European aircraft. The project called Euro-Quebec …
in western Europe today, Green parties are an integral part of parliamentary politics; in Germany, whose case has been analysed here, the Green party is a ruling party in coalition governments in some provinces. But Green party politics was significant not for capturing power, but for being radical-ecological, alternative in …
These are not the best of times for azo dyes. Germany had banned the import, trade and use of certain azo dyes in textiles in April; France and the Netherlands have followed suit now. Azo dyes, possessing a chemical group derived from diazonium salts, are commonly used for colouring textiles …
doomsday predictions with respect to the Black Forest in Freiburg, Germany, seem to have backfired. Back in the '80s, hysterical cries of imminent death of the forest had reached a crescendo. Thousands of trees then showed an unsightly yellowing and massive needle loss. The present state of the forest, however, …
A recent discovery of the 26 million year old fossil of Eomys quercyi , in Enspel, Germany, has revealed that it was a four-inch long gliding animal with a membrane, similar to that of flying squirrels. The elbow on the E quercyi's forelimb had a bony spur which is common …
The process of cryo-recycling of plastic wastes has recently been developed by Harry Rosin, director of the Hygiene Institute in Dort- round, Germany. The method uses freezing rather than burning techniques for treating mixed plastic wastes. Wastes are frozen at temperatures as low as -160
ANTI-NUCLEAR feelings ran high in northern Germany, when a 40-tonne shipment of-plutonium and nuclear waste recently arrived at the Gorleben nuclear storage 0ant near Hanover. A series of clashes between protesters and armed policemen left several injured and reopened the old disputes about the country's nuclear policies. The shipment of …
