Search Results for: Global Warming

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LARGE mining companies take the environment seriously today, maybe rather more than in times past. They are devoting significant resources to reducing or mitigating the environmental problems caused by mining. But what about the small and artisanal mines that pepper much of the developing world?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Parliament is pushing the European Union (EU) to increase investment in the recycling sector, to increase the supply of materials to European manufacturers faced with potential global shortages. With emerging market countries such as China and India gobbling up vast proportions of materials as they rapidly industrialise, MEPs fear European manufacturers will increasingly suffer from input shortages and high prices.…

BY DANIEL PRUZIN, in Geneva

IMPROVING air traffic management, particularly in Europe, is the key to ensuring further near-term reductions in harmful greenhouse gas emissions around airports, top executives from the industry argued during a recent two-day conference on aviation environmentalism in Geneva.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London, and SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten, Dutch West Indies

AS with much of life today, the future of gambling is closely tied to the Internet, and this development of an international industry based on instant cross-border cash flows has raised understandable concerns about money laundering.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

YOU would think it would be possible to ensure that liquids capable of making explosives are not taken on to aircraft without at the same time requiring the confiscation of countless bottles of duty-free from passengers at airports every day.…

By Monica Dobie

University World News here again features a selection of commercially important and cutting edge higher education research developments.

*Researchers from the Max Planck Institute, Germany, have developed a genetic tool that can help speed the development of new genetic varieties of food crops.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE UNITED Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) should not assume that future technological innovations slashing carbon dioxide emissions will emerge spontaneously, senior north American scientists have argued. Researchers form the USA’s National Center for Atmospheric Research; the University of Colorado; and Montreal, Canada’s McGill University say the panel has "seriously underestimated" the work required to develop such technology.…

By Keith Nuthall

The potential riches that can be gained by universities spinning off successful science units into commercial operations has been made clear by a deal involving Britain’s University of Surrey and Airbus-maker EADS Astrium.

It has acquired the university’s Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) for an estimated GBPounds 50 million.…

By Diane Spencer

Organising meetings in-house can be bad enough, but in this global business world the chore can be well-nigh impossible. Help is at hand. Computer scientists at Leicester University are collaborating with other higher education institutions, corporate research centres and businesses in six countries as part of a European Union (EU)-funded project, inContext, to find cyberspace ways of connecting people.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

SHELL has backed a CO2 pricing system, backed by a comprehensive and international carbon trading marketplace, as its favoured policy set for avoiding a future energy crisis. A ‘2008 Energy Scenarios to 2050’ paper presented to a Friends of Europe conference in Brussels also backed promoting carbon capture and storage systems.…