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BY MARK ROWE
THE CURRENT ATM system is flawed in many ways – one key problem being the inherent inefficiencies of an airway system relying on ground-based navigational aids and routes set up around 50 years ago. ANSPs have a responsibility to ensure the environment – in the air and on the ground – is protected as much as possible from wasteful engine emissions of noxious substances.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ (UN) Food and Agriculture Organisation has welcomed the development of a privately funded fish farming sector in Saudi Arabia, following 20 years of research to identify the ideal fish for local aquaculture.

A note published by the FAO says that the Saudi Fish Company, at Al-Shaqiq near the southern Red Sea, is already producing 1,500 tonnes of fish-a-year; the National Shrimp Company, in the Al-Laith area, also on the Red Sea, is expecting to produce 10,000 tonnes annually soon; and the Gizan Agricultural Company is building farming facilities for 1,000 tonnes-a-year.…

KEITH NUTHALL
A GERMAN research group has been awarded an EU European Business Award for the Environment for developing technology to produce fibre-board from the residue wood of palm oil plantations. The Fraunhofe Institute for Wood Research’s system will help Malaysian producers create a marketable product from the 40 million tonnes of biomass waste produced annually, which is usually either burnt or stored in poor conditions.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EU enterprise Commissioner Erkki Liikanen has called on European governments and public institutions to examine further ways of encouraging the pharmaceutical industry to spend more on research and development into medicines for rare diseases. Highlighting the special marketing rights granted in the EU to orphan drugs, the Commissioner told a Brussels roundtable on the subject: “We should more and more find means to get the pharmaceutical industry involved in clear and targeted projects.”…

BY ALAN OSBORN
UP to 30 per cent of the carbon dioxide emissions caused by industry in the EU could be absorbed by forests and other “carbon sinks” according to CarboEurope, an EU research project developing ways to reduce greenhouse gases.…

BY MARK ROWE
THE CURRENT air traffic management (ATM) is flawed in many ways; one key problem being the inherent inefficiencies of an airway system relying on ground-based navigational aids and routes set up around 50 years ago.

Air Navigation Services Providers (ANSP’s) have a responsibility to ensure that the environment – in the air and on the ground – is protected as much as possible from wasteful engine emissions of noxious substances.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
ORNAMENTAL plant buyers will be given a new research tool to expand their range of knowledge about African tropical plants via a new European Commission and the Netherlands government funded research project PROTA, where African and European experts will review and document existing knowledge on around 7,000 species.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE BRITISH government has been given permission by the European Commission to extend its Energy Efficiency Best Practice Programme, which supplies GBPounds 17 million a year in grants to encourage the development and take-up of energy efficient and low carbon technologies.…

Keith Nuthall
EUROPEAN Union energy Commissioner Philippe Busquin has announced that his European Commission directorate-general establish a so-called High Level Group on hydrogen. This group of experts will be tasked with drawing up a strategy to boost the development and use of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, especially for cars.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
WOMEN who smoke as teenagers have a 70 per cent greater risk of developing breast cancer than their non-smoking peers, claims a study by the British Columbia Cancer Agency, Canada. Research showed that women who started smoking within five years of starting menstruation were significantly more likely to develop breast cancer before reaching 50 than non-smokers.…