A RARE moment of triumph settled on Julia Gillard, Australia’s prime minister, on July 10th when she unveiled a plan for a carbon tax to fight climate change.

WHEN asked how he had persuaded Britain’s senior doctors to withdraw their vociferous objections to a National Health Service in the 1940s, Aneurin Bevan, the NHS’s founding minister, replied: “I s

CHINA has lots of people, not much oil and rulers who love big projects. Small wonder that makers of electric cars see it as the market of the future.

RAIN along the middle and lower Yangzi River this week has helped alleviate the region’s worst drought in 50 years.

SEVENTEEN deaths, some 1,500 confirmed or suspected cases and hundreds of millions of euros in losses: the outbreak of E. coli infections in northern Germany is causing havoc across Europe.

GERMAN tree-huggers have always hated nuclear power. The accident at an earthquake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant in March added to Germany’s nukeophobia.

Israeli firms offer technology to slake the world

A new method of making electricity from sunlight has just been testedAT THE moment, there are two reliable ways to make electricity from sunlight. You can use a panel of solar cells to create the current directly, by liberating electrons from a semiconducting material such as silicon.

DOES China have enough people? The question might seem absurd. The country has long been famous both for having the world

COMMUNISM, Lenin said, was