The deal just signed by Sir John Browne, chief executive of BP Amoco, could revolutionise the energy business. The decision on April 6th to spend $45m to win control of Solarex. This will BP the

On April 13th a courtroom in U.S. proclaimed that Jack Kevorkian, a practitioner of euthanasia and assisted suicide, has sought and found the bottom of its tolerance. Over the past decade or so, Dr.

The people who put organically grown food on to American tables sold a record $5 billion-worth of their produce in 1997 and could push that up to over $6 billion last year. But organic farmers still

Teddy Goldsmith has dedicated his own life, soul-and a considerable chunk of the family fortune-to developing the ecology and green movements. He founded the Ecologist magazine in 1969, which has

Advances in both science and social attitudes could lead to novel treatments for drug and alcohol addiction. Consider acamprosate, a new drug made by Merck Lipha, a company based in Lyons, France.

After six long years, America claimed to have won its battle with the European Union over bananas-a fruit which neither side is a serious producer. Yet again the World Trade Organisation has ruled

Across the Great Plains, the prairie dog is seen as one step above vermin. The animals, have been poisoned, smoke bombarded and flooded from their burrows since white men first set foot on the

Over the past two decades, colonisation of the cerrados (savannahs) of Mato Grosso has turned Rondonopolis into Brazil's largest source of soya and cotton, and big producer of rice, maize and sugar.

Chun Ning Lau and Alexey Bezryadin, who work in Michael Tinkham's laboratory in Harvard University, have created the world's thinnest metallic wires-less than ten nanometres in diameter. That means

It will doubtless come as something of a shock to discover that mobile telephones might be good for you. But the most recent research, by Alan Preece of Bristol University and his colleagues, could