Full Coverage: Science

26.06.2008 With expanded and tougher criteria on toxic chemicals, electronic waste and new criteria on climate change, only Sony and Sony Ericsson score more than 5/10 in Greenpeace's latest Guide to Greener Electronics.

02.05.2008 Future technology designed to cut the carbon cost of air travel will be displayed to the public for the first time in a new exhibition that opens at the Science Museum in London on 15 May.

18.04.2008 NEW YORK, Apr 18 (OneWorld) - A nonprofit environmental group is calling on one of the country's largest textbook publishers to correct a school book that it says contains a discussion of global warming "so biased and misleading it would humble a tobacco industry PR man."

08.04.2008 Hundreds of Cogolese villagers - mostly hunter-gatherers or subsistence farmers - will use high-tech GPS (Global Positioning System) devices to produce digital maps to prove their existence to the government and to loggers.

18.03.2008 UNITED NATIONS, Mar 18 (OneWorld) - Alarmed by new scientific data showing a continued increase in the melting of the world's glaciers due to global warming, top UN environmental officials are making fresh calls for a new international agreement to cap greenhouse gas emissions.

17.03.2008 A new family exhibition at the Science Museum in London explores how our lives could be affected by changing climate and resources, and gives a glimpse of how we might live in 2050.

05.03.2008 The newly-opened Global Seed Vault (GSV) at Svalbard in Norway is being criticised by Indian and other NGOs for excluding farmers from its institutional framework. Farmers being the first link in the food chain, should be involved in conserving genetic biodiversity, they argue.

04.03.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Mar 4 (OneWorld) - The vast majority of scientists and other specialists at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have withdrawn from a key labor-management partnership, citing rising distrust of the agency's chief Stephen Johnson.

28.02.2008 BROOKLIN, Canada, Feb 27 (IPS) - Free, authoritative and online: 1.8 million species.

27.02.2008 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 26 (OneWorld) - Most of California's furniture contains toxic chemicals that have been linked to cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption, and neurological and reproductive dysfunction, according to a report released today.

20.02.2008 New knowledge about the mechanics of HIV transmission is already shaping new approaches to stopping the virus, says an anti-AIDS advocate reflecting on the news that a cream that was hoped to revolutionize how women protect themselves from AIDS had failed in clinical trials.
From: Global Campaign for Microbicides

08.02.2008 NEW YORK, Feb 8 (OneWorld) - A much-delayed U.S. government report has been obtained by journalists, raising allegations that officials may be suppressing politically inconvenient data that, if released, could help protect the health of millions living in the Great Lakes region of the country.

07.02.2008 The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a US$ 19 million grant to develop rice varieties that can withstand the effects of climate change. The money will benefit nearly half a million farmers in Africa and Asia who depend on rain fed agriculture for their livelihoods.

15.01.2008 The Sono filter, a local innovation, offers hope to millions in Bangladesh who lack access to safe drinking water. Arsenic contaminated groundwater exists in all but one of the country’s 64 districts, and adversely impacts the health of those who ingest it over long periods.

31.12.2007 The Nepal government will spend US$ 1.1 million to set up a national science laboratory to carry out advanced research on biotechnology, biofuels and renewable energy. The laboratory, due to open in the beginning of 2010, will be managed by the Nepal Academy of Science and Technology (NAST).

06.12.2007 An Indian scientist based in Pune, a city in the state of Maharashtra, has found a novel way to manage kitchen waste that would not only reduce burden on city administration but also produce methane gas that can be used for cooking. Sustainable rural development through the application of scientific and technological knowledge is the mission of this renowned scientist.

13.11.2007 Indian researchers in the southern state of Kerala have developed a first of its kind test that can differentiate chikungunya from dengue viruses as early as the second or third day of infection. There have been over a million cases of chikungunya in India since 2006 when the virus recurred after a gap of 32 years.

27.10.2007 WHO’s newly published classification code will appraise the health of children and youth within the context of their current environment and development continuum. By documenting the rapid growth and changes in the early decades of life, the code hopes to address children's well-being through appropriate social policy, health care and education.

01.10.2007 Adding antibiotic moxifloxacin to the current combination of tuberculosis (TB) drugs could reduce the time needed to cure the disease, a study claims. Current treatment requires patients to take four drugs for eight weeks, followed by two drugs for four months.

24.06.2007 Kehittyvien maiden välinen Tieteen, Teknologian ja Innovaation keskus päätettiin perustaa YK:n johdolla Malesiaan. Malesian ministeriön hallinnoima keskus tukee Etelä-Etelä -välistä teknologian siirtoa, säännösten luomista sekä maiden välistä tutkimusta ja yhteistyötä.