This white paper examines the current challenges for clean energy infrastructure and identifies solutions that industrial clusters, transport and logistics industries, and the wider clean energy value chain can jointly explore in order to accelerate its deployment. Thirteen new industrial clusters from Australia, Brazil, Colombia, India, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, …
From the mid-1970s and on, the contribution to air pollution of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides from gasoline passenger cars in the developed world has been reduced through co-evolution of regulation and commercial introduction of catalytic emission control technology, now part of hundreds of millions of cars, trucks and …
Oil leakage from a cargo ship that sank near Oland Island is now threatening the eco-sensitive landmass off the southeast coast of Sweden. The incident occurred in the first week of November, when the 8,500-tonne vessel Finnbirch got caught in a sea storm and sank 20 km off the island. …
an aids vaccine, developed by scientists in Sweden, has produced surprisingly good results. More than 90 per cent of subjects in phase 1 trials of the vaccine developed an immune response to hiv, the virus that causes aids, say scientists from the Karolinska Institute, the Karolinska University Hospital and the …
haycarb Ltd, a Sri Lankan firm, rated the world's best producer of quality coconut shell-based activated carbon, has accused Sweden's Jacobi Carbons Ltd of stealing its technology. Haycarb alleges Jacobi Carbons is trying to use scarce charcoal needed in activated carbon production, besides
Handheld mobile phones were introduced in Denmark and Sweden during the late 1980s. This makes the Danish and Swedish populations suitable for a study aimed at testing the hypothesis that long-term mobile phone use increases the risk of parotid gland tumors. In this population-based case-control study, the authors identified all …
Online piracy found a new ally, when Richard Falkvinge, a Swedish citizen, decided to initiate a political party. Sweden's newest political organisation, which calls itself the Pirate Party, has a clear-cut agenda: abolish copyright and patent laws. This is the first instance where online file sharers have moved from exchanging …
Kfont class="UCASE">stockholm has replicated London's example by imposing a congestion tax on all vehicles entering some areas in the heart of the Swedish capital. The measure is proving successful in reducing traffic with the number of vehicles entering the city centre dropping by about a sixth. The tax charged for …
Here are some figures that might make puritans cringe in revulsion. An average adult human produces 500 litres of urine in a year and experts reckon this nutrient-rich
brain wave: A team of Swiss neuroscientists and computer engineers are trying to program a computer to create a brain. In collaboration with IBM, the scientists are building a computer model of the neocortical column of a rat. They are trying to put together a single circuit of about 10,000 …
Nacka nature school is an information center on ways to manage wastewater. It was set up in 1989 at village Velamsund, near Stockholm city, Sweden, by the Nacka municipality, home to approximately 70,000 people. Velamsund is situated in an archipelago once greviously affected by sewage discharge and the toxic remnants …
Comparing the practice of two certification schemes in Swedish forestry, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and a forest owner-dominated competitor, the author explores the capacity of forest certification to ameliorate environmental degradation in forestry while attending to different stakeholder interests.
calling trouble: As per a study of Sweden-based Karolinska Institutet, 10 or more years of mobile phone use increases the risk of acoustic neuroma, a tumour on the auditory nerve. no more allergic: Researchers from the University College London, UK, have found that by inactivating a molecule called p110delta, effects …
start telling stories: Being a maths wizard and a great storyteller may appear completely different, but a new study by Canada's University of Waterloo suggests that preschool children's storytelling abilities are predictive of their mathematical ability. In the study, children aged three and four were shown a book that contained …
concerned about the hazards of high-tech trash? Here is a piece of good news. A Swedish company has started marketing wooden computer monitors and keyboards that aim to brighten office life, while cutting down the environmental impact of hi-tech junk. With large number of computers stacking up in landfills worldwide, …
Prevention is better than cure, shows a research, which links policies aimed at restricting the use of chemicals with fewer cases of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (nhl). The study, by Swedish oncologists, indicates that incidence of the cancer in Sweden decreased (0.8 per cent for men and 0.2 per cent for women) …
Norway and Sweden have jointly set up a us $3.6-million fund to focus on environment-related efforts, which would help alleviate poverty. Over the next three years, this amount will be utilised to execute technical assistance projects and carry out other activities in protection, conservation and sustainable use of natural resources …
