The European Commission gave the green light to five national plans (naps) for the European Union greenhouse gas emission trading scheme and offered conditional approval to three more. The
Singapore may just have discovered a remedy to reduce water wastage at the household level. The city is known for its long standing efforts at saving water through recycling water and promoting rainwater harvesting. Now, they have started the Water Effic
The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (itlos) at Hamburg, Germany, has directed Singapore not to carry out land reclamation work in a way that is damaging to the marine environment, or to
How inevitable was the collapse of talks at the World Trade Organization? How engineered was it? CLIFFORD POLYCARP reports from the streets and conference centres of Cancun
Several strains of influenza or flu have been named after Guangdong province, where the first sars cases surfaced. This dubious distinction stems from the agricultural practices prevalent in the
Between March 25 and 27, 2003, two different groups of researchers in the cdc and Hong Kong University announced that a previously unrecognised coronavirus could have caused the sars epidemic.
From now onwards we have to battle with another mysterious enemy. Since February 2003, a disease similar to influenza has officially killed 48 people and affected hundreds of others across the world, especially in China and Hong Kong. But it was only in
