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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union has struck a research cooperation deal with the United States over the development of hydrogen fuel cells. Both sides have agreed to pool efforts, including staging demonstrations of fuel cell vehicles and fuelling networks, writing codes and standards for the technology and assessing the economics of exploiting rare earth materials to build special high-temperature cells.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
TECHNOLOGY is being developed by a European Commission funded research project to allow curators to effectively monitor environmental pollution that can damage ancient treasures in museums and galleries. The MIMIC (microclimate indoor monitoring in cultural heritage preservation) project has adapted airborne particle detectors called dosimeters to assess the effects of combinations of pollutants, densities at which they could cause damage and microclimatic anomalies.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ENVIRONMENTAL health authorities need to guard against the leaching of marine pollution through porous aquifers into freshwater groundwater sources, a European Union funded research project has warned. The Euro 2.4 million SALTRANS study has dismissed earlier assumptions that toxic organic pollutants are not sufficiently soluble to flow into groundwater reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER utilities need to guard against the leaching of marine pollution through porous aquifers into freshwater groundwater sources, a European Union funded research project has warned. The Euro 2.4 million SALTRANS study has dismissed earlier assumptions that toxic organic pollutants are not sufficiently soluble to flow into groundwater reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WATER utilities need to guard against the leaching of marine pollution through porous aquifers into freshwater groundwater sources, a European Union funded research project has warned. The Euro 2.4 million SALTRANS study has dismissed earlier assumptions that toxic organic pollutants are not sufficiently soluble to flow into groundwater reserves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THREE European Union research projects on combating the spread of anti-biotic residues in the environment have reported their findings. The studies ERAVMIS, REMPHARMAWATER and POSEIDON have recommended that sunlight and ozone treatment are applied to drinking water and waste water streams, to prevent anti-biotic residues – such as from human waste – entering rivers and groundwater.…

BY PHILIP FINE

THE US government wants to limit pharmaceutical manufacturers to a one-month window in which to challenge a generic patent. Washington says multiple, consecutive patent challenges have been costing American billions of dollars in drugs costs. The Bush administration estimates that its planned regulatory changes will save consumers an estimated US$35 billion over 10 years.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
NOBODY likes nuclear waste but nobody has yet thought up a universally-acceptable way of disposing of it. This is as true in Europe as anywhere else. It may be fair to say, however, that some European countries have gone further than the rest of the world in drawing conclusions about the future of nuclear energy as a result of the problems caused by radioactive waste.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
SCIENTISTS from Australia’s CSIRO, (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation), have developed technology to produce electricity from waste coal unsuitable for normal power generation, and methane gas that would otherwise pollute the atmosphere.

The CSIRO-Liquatech system burns coal and methane in a kiln producing hot air, which is passed through a heat exchange unit to drive a gas turbine and produce power, which can supply a mine’s own electrical needs or power the national grid.…

BY PHILIP FINE

BUPROPION, better known as Zyban, may help with smoking cessation, says a pharmaceutical industry-funded study from the Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Research on 893 subjects found the anti-depressant tripled quit rates among women and smokers with a history of depression, as compared to those taking placebos.…