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BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW group of specialists and academics forged by the European Commission will focus on the cancer risks associated with environmental and nutritional factors, as well as individual susceptibility. This ‘Network of Excellence’ ECNIS (environmental cancer, nutrition and individual susceptibility) is the latest group established to link experts from across the European Union (EU), under the European Research Area policy.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SCOTS may drink hard, smoke, and eat deep-fried pizzas with battered Mars bars, but obvious environmental factors do not explain why they are so prone to heart disease says a University of Edinburgh study, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A NEW group of specialists and academics forged by the European Commission will focus on the cancer risks associated with environmental and nutritional factors, as well as individual susceptibility. This ‘Network of Excellence’ ECNIS (environmental cancer, nutrition and individual susceptibility) is the latest group established to link experts from across the European Union (EU), under the European Research Area policy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Investment Bank (EIB) is lending Euro 220 million to modernise Europe’s largest lignite fuelled power plant, in Belchatow, central Poland, making it more efficient and reducing its polluting emissions. The loan will upgrade four out of the 12 electricity generation units of the BOT-Belchatow Power Plant, which generates about 20% of Poland’s electricity production.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A judgement by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) due in the next month or so is expected to find that the European Commission should be given a key role in measures to deal with environmental crime. The ECJ is likely to follow the line taken last month by the court’s advocate general Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer who stated that common definitions of environmental crimes and the rules for determining penalties were “first pillar” issues – in other words they should be dealt with on an EU basis.…

BY KENCHO WANGDI, AND KEITH NUTHALL
GIVEN the environmental pressures of global warming laws and clean air legislation, the energy industry is always looking-out for new technologies that can help it deliver services, without the being criticised for harming the planet.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has helped broker a deal with seven Balkans countries involving them reducing the environmental damage caused by their mining industries, especially regarding non-ferrous metals. Welcoming the agreement, UNEP highlighted the potential problems caused by mining for zinc, cadmium, copper, bauxite, silver and gold in Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia, Serbia & Montenegro, and (effectively independent) Kosovo.…

BY MONICA DOBIE and KEITH NUTHALL
SENSOR PROJECTS

RESEARCHERS from Canada’s University of Toronto have designed a screening tool that lights up when dangerous pathogens and diseases are detected in liquid samples, including water and bodily fluids. A study in Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters explains the probe crushes cells to release DNA, then untangles a strand of DNA, (there are usually two combined), of a particular pathogen.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Parliament’s environment committee has joined the European Commission in saying that national governments, not the European Union (EU) should establish thresholds for potential pollutants in groundwater. This unusual consensus favouring decentralisation in a proposed EU environmental directive is because the chemical composition of groundwater can vary from region to region.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
WHILE the consumption of paint, ink and colourings in Belgium is, like that in most other European countries, best described as “stable”, the country’s production industry is eying opportunities to relocate in cheaper regions, such as eastern Europe.…