Search Results for: Climate change

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MAKING a living in the Canadian Arctic is never easy in commercial terms, given the restrictions imposed by the weather, the distances to populous markets and extremely undeveloped transport: there are no roads to and from the territory of Nunavut.…

By Alan Osborn

Metrology, the science of measurement, has not figured largely in European research activities to date but that may change now that the European Union (EU) member states have come down in its favour and promised EU money to support it.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FRESH market authorisations for European Union (EU) sales will be needed when confectionary manufacturers change the particle size of an additive in future under a newly approved assessment system. This has been written into four EU regulations on additives, flavourings and enzymes, which have been approved by the European Parliament following talks with the EU Council of Ministers.…

By Monica Dobie

Researchers from the USA’s University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered a silver lining to sky rocketing vehicle fuel prices – fewer deaths from car accidents.

An analysis of yearly vehicle deaths compared to gas prices found death rates drop significantly as people slow down and drive less.…

BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA

THE RAPIDLY growing Indian economy is experiencing a sharp rise in corruption, money laundering and various other financial crimes. However the central government is trying to curb fraudulent activities and make the system more transparent. Raghavendra Verma reports from New Delhi.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE FRENCH government has kicked off an activist six-month presidency of the European Union (EU) until December by urging an informal meeting of EU energy ministers in Paris to consider practical ways of boosting energy efficiency and renewable energies.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

RESEARCHERS from the USA’s University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered a silver lining to sky rocketing vehicle fuel prices – fewer deaths from car accidents. An analysis of yearly vehicle deaths compared to petrol prices found death rates drop significantly as people slow down and drive less.…

BY BILL CORCORAN

WITH a crippled economy, inflation running at over 2.2 million per cent and a government partial to confiscating the assets and local operations of foreign companies when it sees fit, doing business in Zimbabwe is undoubtedly a risky undertaking.…

BY GAVIN BLAIR

WHAT does the overworked, overstressed, sleep-deprived Japanese salaryman reach for the morning after a late-night drinking session with his boss, to get him through another long day at the office? When a can of hot or cold coffee from one of nation’s million-odd vending machines just won’t do the trick, it has to be one of a multitude of ‘genki’ (energetic, lively) drinks on the market.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RESISTANCE from within the European Commission’s health directorate general appears to have derailed plans to lift the de facto European Union (EU) ban on American poultry imports.

The Commission’s industry Commissioner Günter Verheugen has been pushing for the scrapping of EU health rules banning chlorine treatment of poultry, which have effectively kept US exports out of Europe: the practice is common in America.…