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BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND has become the latest country to ask the United Nations to extend its economic control over the continental shelf bordering its coastline beyond the usual 200 nautical miles. It has asked the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for oil, gas and other rights over the Atlantic seabed abutting the ‘Porcupine Abyssal Plain’.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
EXPOSURE to pesticides kills farmers so why are we still using them?

In Britain, farmers, most of them without knowing and unaware that their symptoms are linked to insecticide use, have poisoned their bodies by repeatedly being exposed to these dangerous chemicals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
SAUDI Arabia is eliminating a ban on importing food products with less than half of their remaining official shelf life, via commitments made to join the WTO. In a key deal with the United States, the Saudis have promised to accept “internationally-recognised manufacturer-determined use-by dates, with the exception of certain perishable foods and baby foods”.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A MARINE litter clean-up campaign involving Scottish fishermen has received a global United Nations award. Glasgow PR firm Weber Shandwick picked up the 2005 UN Grand Award for outstanding achievement in public relations for its Save the North Sea campaign.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has reversed a ban made earlier this year on cosmetics companies using an official ‘USDA Organic’ seal on products using natural ingredients. It said in April it had no authority to regulate cosmetics and so told companies producing ‘natural’ lotions and lip balms to remove the USDA round, green label from their packaging.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
MORE than 20 years after an agreement was first proposed, a deal has been struck between the European Union (EU) and the United States over wine and both sides have acclaimed it. But has the EU given too much away?…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has delayed agreement of new regulations governing how metal ore mining companies would explore and exploit deep seawaters for hauls such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt; sulphides are found around volcanic areas and crusts on oceanic ridges.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations Food & Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned major international donors have given only 20% of the money needed to control bird flu in poultry and animals before the epidemic spreads again this winter. The FAO wants mass vaccination campaigns in east Asian countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam, where the disease is most entrenched and from where a global epidemic is most likely to spring.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
IRELAND has become the latest country to ask the United Nations to extend its economic control over the continental shelf bordering its coastline beyond the usual 200 nautical miles. It has asked the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for mineral and other rights over the Atlantic seabed abutting the ‘Porcupine Abyssal Plain’.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations’ International Seabed Authority has postponed agreement of new regulations governing how mining companies would explore and exploit deep seawaters for hauls such as polymetallic sulphide nodules and cobalt-rich crusts. These mineral resources are rich in copper, iron, zinc, silver, gold and cobalt, with the sulphides being found around volcanic areas and the crusts on oceanic ridges.…