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BY EMMA JACKSON

Christmas 2010 in Canada saw small gains for print products and huge increases in ebook sales, claimed several major publishers and Indigo Books& Music, Canada’s largest retailer."Last year was a record year, and we did better this year," said Harper Collins Canada (HCC) CEO David Kent.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EXTENT of confusion and uncertainty within the global scientific community over the risks of contamination by the plastics additive Bisphenol A (BPA) has been laid bare by a report from an international meeting. Specialists in the chemical gathered from round the world in Ottawa, Canada, in November, but failed to reach a comprehensive consensus on the risks, other than a lot more studies are required.…

By Keith Nuthall

With the British general election looming this week and the prospect of a change in government, one issue seems to electrify UK electors and politicians above all others, and that is immigration. In a sense, this is not surprising.…

BY ERIC J LYMAN

ONE of the subsidiary bodies negotiating groups within the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun has finalised language that takes carbon capture and storage technologies (CCS) to the brink of being included in the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

Ontario’s main beer retailer The Beer Store has rejected claims it is partly responsible for Calgary-based Minhas Craft Brewery abandoning plans to build a new brewery in Hamilton, near Toronto. Minhas, which has a brewery in Wisconsin, USA, claimed to Canadian newspapers The Beer Store – owned by major Canadian brewers Molson Canada, Labatt and Sleeman – was slow selling its new Boxer lager.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH sales of biofuels still very much in their nascent stage and concerns rising about the environmental impact of biofuels growing, research and development into ‘second-generation’ biofuels is going ahead apace. And a key element of this work is lowering CO2 emissions from fuel by using waste alternative sources of material for conversion to biofuel.…

BY JULIAN RYALL

JAPAN is being accused of trying to write its own official asbestos testing system into an international standard, because it knows it does not work and so will get its government off the hook for asbestos exposure cases.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

WITH sales of biofuels still very much in their nascent stage and concerns rising about the environmental impact of biofuels growing, research and development into ‘second-generation’ biofuels is going ahead apace. And a key element of this work is lowering CO2 emissions from fuel by using waste alternative sources of material for conversion to biofuel.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

AS the market for electric vehicles (EVs) picks up, the infrastructure for recharging them will inevitably have to keep pace – so, according to US-based consultants in global clean technology markets Pike Research (NOTE: CORRECT), there will be around 4.7 million EV charging units operating worldwide by 2015.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

INTELLIGENCE advice teams are to be posted at international airports in seven west African countries, to boost the number and effectiveness of illicit drugs seizures at their terminals. This ‘Aircop’ initiative has been organised by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the World Customs Organisation (WCO) and Interpol.…