This study assesses targets for charging infrastructure at the borough level up to 2035, complementing the Delivery Plan created by the Mayor of London’s Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Taskforce. Specifically, it estimates the needs for public and private charging infrastructure in each of the 32 boroughs and the City of London, …
Planetary scientists claim to have discovered evidence that the earliest rocks in the solar system were fragile and akin to candy floss rather than the hard rock as people know today. An international team, which included Curtin University, Imperial College London and Liverpool University, has provided the first geological evidence …
Breakthrough Made By Tweaking Stem Cells; May End Organ Shortage For Transplants London: Scientists claim to have grown kidneys in a laboratory by manipulating stem cells, a major breakthrough which could help tackle the shortage of organs for transplant. A team at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland has actually …
London: In a cramped London laboratory filledwithtesttubes,bacteria and mosquitoes, scientists are trying to engineer a new weapon in the battle against malaria: a mutant fungus. For years, Angray Kang at Westminster University and colleagues have been testing whether they could genetically tweak a fungus to kill the malaria parasite carried …
Recent evidence has demonstrated that substantial changes in cycling levels can be achieved in the UK, with the potential for increasing cycling being greatest in the city regions. This report explores the potential impact of a step change in the delivery of interventions to support and promote cycling in the …
London: A petrol pump near your home could raise your cancer risk, a new study has warned. Researchers in Spain have carried out the study and found that buildings within a 100m radius of petrol pumps are exposed to potentially harmful pollution
Kamal Nath, who today took over as the urban development minister with an ambitious plan of giving a boost to urban transportation, intends to expand the Delhi Metro network to make it bigger than its London counterpart by 2017.
London began spraying its roads with a dust suppressant on Friday to tackle its high air pollution levels. The capital is close to breaching European Union legal limits for particulate matter (PM10), a pollutant produced mainly by engine emissions along with tire and brake wear. London Mayor Boris Johnson hopes …
London: Ever wondered how one person could save the planet from the effects of climate change? A British-made computer game creates different ways of doing just that.
Cities all over the world are checking car population to free their road space. Anumita Roychowdhury finds out where India is headed LONDONIt's just too expensive to driveAndrew Parker, a business consultant in London, had enough of crawling down the choked roads in his car. When it seemed that things …
Cities all over the world are trying to ease congestion on roads. Not the chocked Indian cities, through. Time to make cars in India pay the real cost of using roads.
It was a summer party celebrating BP’s 20-year sponsorship of London’s Tate Museum, and protestors used it to call attention to its handling of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. On June 28, protesters emptied BP-labelled cans containing a slick material in front of the party’s entrance and …
OIL major BP is seeking a strategic investor to secure its independence in the face of any takeover attempts as it struggles with a devastating oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, newspapers said on Sunday. Britain’s Sunday Times said the company’s advisers were trying to drum up interest among …
In State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2010, Minority Rights Group International offers a comprehensive overview of the situation faced by minorities in a world increasingly divided along religious lines. It includes: an analysis of government initiatives that contribute to the marginalisation of religious minorities, such as religious …
As climate change has risen on the development agenda, so has the demand for research to understand the effects it will have on society and what can be done by governments, businesses, communities and households to deal with its impacts. The rapid increase in development assistance funding for climate change …
