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BY ALAN OSBORN

Scientists from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany have found that doubling the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere could lead to global warming of between 1.2 and 4.3°C, with the most likely value being around 3°C.…

by Alan Osborn

The European Commission has requested eight EU member countries to trace contaminated meat which may have been imported from Germany. This follows the suicide of a Munich meat wholesaler after his business had been raided by police who found more than 60 tonnes of rotting meat awaiting delivery to purchasers in Germany and other EU countries.…

BY MARK ROWE

AS the debate about renewing nuclear power stations resonates throughout the UK, it can be easy to overlook the fact that nuclear engineering has important implications for research into environmental health. One of the key locations for this process is Europe’s leading civil nuclear research laboratory, the Institute for Transuranium Elements (ITU), in Karlsruhe, Germany.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EXPORTERS of meat and bone meal waste shipping cargoes from the European Union (EU) to non-EU power incinerators do not have to make special declarations to environmental authorities, a European Court of Justice advocate general has recommended.

Juliane Kokott has said this is the case even if the animal waste was contaminated by BSE: "…contamination by risk material, if… incinerated, does not lead to any apparent increased risk to the environment."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) Council of Ministers has approved a list of priority projects under its 2007-13 trans European network (TENs) energy programme. Three of the 10 gas pipeline projects link Europe to Algeria, a key alternative source to Russia, and there are also priority gas pipelines to Libya and Turkey listed.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) food safety consumer alert service RASFF has warned of aflatoxin contaminations in imported confectionary ingredients: American almonds in Italy; Turkish hazelnuts, kernels and paste in France, Germany and Italy; and Iranian pistachio nuts in Germany, Spain and Poland, among others.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE INTERNATIONAL Energy Agency (IEA) has said in its latest annual report that wind energy still only satisfies 1.2% of power demand in its 20 rich country members, although that proportion is increasing fast in some cases. It said that from 1995 to 2005, the contribution of wind power to national electricity demand rose from 0.2%, with 12 IEA members being in the European Union (EU).…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

A CAR that can think for its driver is a step nearer reality, thanks to a new European Union (EU)-funded project now underway in Switzerland. The 10-partner BACS (Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems) project, co-ordinated by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, is creating thinking robots that can react in the right way to incomplete information, in the same way that humans and animals do.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EURO 1.8 million European Union research project claims to have reduced the cost of coating aluminium to such an extent, that a potentially lucrative niche could have been created. Project coordinator Germany’s Fischer Oberflachentechnik says its coating can make aluminium tough enough to replace the steel that is usually employed in cars, aeroplanes and other heavy industrial applications.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU) research project has developed special technology to coat aluminium vehicle, aeronautical and heavy industrial parts, making them tough enough to replace steel, boosting demand for the non-ferrous metal. The key would be the lightness of aluminium, crucial for reducing vehicle and aeroplane weight, boosting fuel economy.…