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, …
the southeast of Great Britain is sinking. Thanks to enhanced global warming, England's wildlife may be forced to seek refuge in Scotland, the island's resurgent north. Like England, Scotland can roughly be divided between the wetter, higher and warmer west and the lower, dryer and fertile east. Unlike England, Scotland …
the uk government has published a long-awaited Ecotec report on a possible pesticide tax. Existing policies have attempted to control pesticide damage by encouraging the use of relatively less risky pesticides and improving and controlling their application. However experts feel that tackling pesticide pollution requires a dual approach of less …
in one of the worst instances of racism in recent times, a hospital in uk, accepted a kidney from a donor who put a condition that it would not be transplanted on a "coloured' person. The incident occurred at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, where the donor died earlier …
according to the environmental group, Friends of Earth ( f o e ) an ici factory in Middlesborough is the uk 's largest polluter of a group of chemicals, alkylphenols, that has been shown to change the sex of fish. Basing its polluters' list on Environment Agency figures, f o …
a global fund to sponsor and coordinate research into the impact of chemicals on human health and the environment was launched in London. The European Chemical Industry Association, the us Chemical Manufacturers Association and the Japanese Chemical Industry Association announced plans for a us $25 million annual fund for a …
Scientists are using the ability of bees to pick traces of dust and airborne particles to detect landmines. "Bees are like flying dust mops. Wherever they go, they pick up dust, airborne chemicals and other samples on their fuzzy, statically charged bodies,' says J Bromenshenik, bee expert at the University …
Mahmoud Salem of Kingston University in Surrey, UK, has used ash residue from power stations to develop a fireproof ceramic material. A thin coat of the material on a steel bar will allow it to resist temperatures above 950
global warming is threatening large tracts of ancient Caledonian pine forests. Coastal meadows, mountain birds, flowers and insects may also come under threat, and the Scottish weather could get wetter, windier and more miserable than it is now. This was stated in a report commissioned by the Scottish Natural Heritage …
computer hackers are said to have held one of uk 's military communications satellite, Skynet , to ransom. This was published in the uk -based newspaper Sunday Business . Though the ministry of defence ( m o d) denied any such attack, computer fraud detectives at Scotland Yard said they …
as early as the ninth century, "sea coales', found in the northeast coast of England, were burned as fuel. Soon the air was reeking of dirty fumes, making it intolerable to breathe in London. A few centuries later, the then monarch of England, King Edward I (1272-1307), banned its use …
Scientists have unearthed a seam of precious metal on the Scottish island of Rum. Duncan Pirrie, a geologist at the Camborne School of Mines, UK, found grains of platinum in the sediment of streams on the island, which prompted him to look for the metal in the surrounding rocks. Although …
British consumers will soon be able to buy "green' electricity following the launch of renewable energy power stations. Ecotricity, a joint venture between Renewable Energy Company and Thames Water Private Limited Company, was formed as part of the government's Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (nffo) scheme. British energy minister John Battle, speaking …
This paper discusses the political circumstances which help explain why the insanitary living conditions of such a large section of India’s urban population have been ignored, and contrasts these with the circumstances which explain successful sanitary reform in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. In India, there …
allan Walker and his colleagues at Horticulture Research International, a British government-owned research agency in Warwickshire, uk , have discovered a strain of bacteria that degrades phenylureas, the most widely used herbicide family in Europe. Spraying the phenylureas -eating bacteria on to the soil could soon destroy these herbicide that …
british scientists have discovered a natural anti-freeze made of carrots to protect plants against damage by frost. It can be moved into other crops to protect them. Maggie Smallwood of the biology department of York University in northern England led the team that discovered the carrot anti-freeze. " They work …
the British tobacco industry recently got a big boost when the largest legal action against it collapsed, drastically reducing Britain's chances of mounting a successful anti-tobacco litigation like its transatlantic neighbour, the us . The case collapsed on February 27, when 46 of a group of 53 lung cancer victims …
in recent years, optical fibres have proved crucial for the information technology sector, as these fibres allow much better and quicker transfer of data. In the west, optical fibres have been used by the telecommunications industry instead of conventional wires with great success. Thanks to these, there has been tremendous …
Wind Energy Group (WEG), a UK- based company has developed a new wind turbine to cater to the demand for medium-scale three-blade wind turbines. The turbine, MS4-600 has a 41-metre diameter rotor that operates downwind of the tower and can self-align with the wind. The blades are very flexible to …
Imagine how irritating it must be for the cows, to be milked when they least expect it. So in a move that brings compassion and technology together, Silsoe Research Institute, an agricultural and scientific research institute based in Bedfordshire, UK, has developed a robot milkmaid with laser-assisted vision system that …
T he collapse of a landmark anti-tobacco case in the uk has severely hit prospects of a us -style litigation against tobacco companies. While this had been successful in the us , where states had sued tobacco companies to recover the costs for treating smoking-related illnesses, the withdrawal of their …
