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BY KEITH NUTHALL

RESEARCHERS from University College London (UCL) have produced scientific backing for the popular theory that a high protein diet helps reduce weight. Long the mainstay of the Atkins Diet, UCL scientists have established that eating protein promotes the creation in the gut of a hormone called PYY, which sends signals to brains causing a feeling of fullness.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London

THE EUROPEAN Commission has given the green light for a campaign to make the auto-buying public aware of the new "smart car" technology manufacturers can install so that driving on Europe’s crowded road system becomes safer.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

CALIFORNIA winemakers are turning to high-tech chemistry to choose optimum grape picking times, says research presented at the annual American Chemical Society meeting, San Francisco. Michael Cleary, senior manager of grape and wine chemistry at E & J Gallo Winery told participants that spectroscopy, (studying the make-up of matter based on the light it emits), and chromatography, (chemically separating mixtures into their component parts), will be used more commonly in its wine-making.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

BEIRUT: The month long war waged by Israel against Hizbullah has caused considerable damage to Lebanon’s environment.

The coastline is marred by an oil spill, the air has been polluted by burning fuel oil, destroyed factories, forest fires and dust kicked up from bombings, and there is the possibility that depleted uranium (DU) and phosphorous bombs were used by the Israeli military.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas has unveiled European Commission plans to next year launch comprehensive legislation boosting effective carbon capture and storage.

The laws would remove legal barriers impeding research and development into this environmental technology and would also lay down rules on liability, for instance, if stored CO2 leached into the environment.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) High Level Group on textiles and clothing has stated in detail how the EU textile and clothing manufacturing industry should move upmarket to survive. It wants the sector "to become leaner and more cooperative with higher productivity" and dedicate more turnover to exports.…

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

THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) High Level Group on textiles and clothing has laid down in detail how it wants the EU textile and clothing manufacturing industry to move upmarket to survive. In a second and more specific paper than its initial suggestions, it calls on the sector "to become leaner and more cooperative with higher productivity" and dedicate more turnover to exports.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed creating a ‘European Joint Undertaking for ITER & the Development of Fusion Energy’, tasked with ensuring Europe fulfils its contribution to the international nuclear research project. It would directly control European Union (EU) ITER spending and also cooperate with European industry and research organisations to supply more money, materials and expertise.…

BY MARK ROWE

IN the years that followed the turn of the century, the Ukrainian economy was an optimistic place. Even two years ago there was a political certainty that encouraged investment from abroad and galvanised domestic paint companies to venture their capital on medium-term plans and encouraged the wave of acquisitions that snapped up several of Ukraine’s brand-name paint groups.…