This report presents analyses of data on patients critically ill with confirmed COVID-19 reported to ICNARC up to 4pm on 16 April 2020 from critical care units participating in the Case Mix Programme (the national clinical audit covering all NHS adult, general intensive care and combined intensive care/high dependency units …
Cancun (Mexico): India and China will account for most of the growth in demand for oil this year, which is expected to rise by 900,000 barrels per day, even as oil exporters
Aviation and shipping should cut their respective carbon dioxide emissions to 10 and 20 percent below 2005 levels over the next decade, the European Union is likely to propose at global climate talks this week. EU diplomats said the cuts might be linked to a tax on fuel to generate …
The European Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have set new standards for office appliances which could save the equivalent of one year electricity consumption in Ireland. The new specifications for computers and imaging equipment such as printers and copiers will come into effect from July 1, the …
Warm weather in 2007 helped the European Union towards its target of cutting global warming gases under the UN Kyoto Protocol for fighting climate change, but Spain, Italy and Ireland remained way off track. Soaring transport emissions also offset many of the advances made by the 27-nation bloc, EU data …
Coastal states have now made their bids for vast new areas of continental shelf You never know what may come in handy. That is the principle behind the rush for the seabed that reached a climax of sorts this week with the deadline on May 13th for lodging claims to …
The humble potato has come a long way IN 1852, Karl Marx described the peasantry as a sack of potatoes. The fickle attitude of farmers towards the short-lived Paris Commune had irked the old revolutionary. He would be a little less condescending towards peasants, elsewhere. But according to all evidence …
Ireland's Electricity Supply Board (ESB) expects private industry to create 3,700 jobs over the next five years, largely on the back of investments in green energy, the utility group said on Thursday. The ESB's positive outlook comes against a backdrop of soaring numbers of social welfare claimants, with the estimated …
France's Renault and Japan's Nissan will supply electric cars to the Irish market within two years as part of a government plan to have 10 percent of vehicles electric by 2020, Ireland's Energy Minister said on Friday. "Today's initiative will transform our streets, will cut carbon emissions and change the …
London: A Belfast-based scientist has claimed that a herb found in the Himalayan region could be effective in controlling Type 2 diabetes. Dr. Yasser Abdel-Wahab, a senior lecturer in Biomedical Sciences at the University of Ulster, and his team discovered that the roots of a cucumber-like vegetable
food Store bread without worry A new type of paper packaging made with cinnamon oil will preserve bread and other baked food by up to 10 days, say researchers of University of Zaragoza in Spain. Some scientists have earlier tried out various methods for fighting bread mold, a kind of …
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
NAGESH KUMAR THE fifteenth SAARC summit over the coming weekend in Colombo will confront many challenges. While the recent bombings will highlight the menace of cross-border terrorism, it will be important to advance the agenda of economic cooperation, especially in the context of global slowdown and the collapse of Doha …
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is a Department designated(a) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(b) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community. These Regulations may be cited as the Pesticides (Maximum Residue Levels in Crops,Food and Feeding Stuffs) …
A new study investigating the social and economic aspects of biodiversity in Ireland has estimated it brings in billions of Euros every year. The report was announced by the Minister for Environment, Heritage and Local Government, John Gormley, and was produced by a consortium led by Dr Craig Bullock of …
Members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Change and Energy Security have visited Galway to find out the key drivers of climate change in Ireland. The committee heard about the Marine Institute's programme on understanding the issue in Ireland by studying forces at work in the Atlantic Ocean. During …
