Full Coverage: Science
05/27/2008
According to a latest research, women in labour can now be tested for HIV in rural hospitals in India. By using a woman’s blood and saliva samples, doctors can detect the infection and start the antiretroviral therapy (ART) that prevents transmission of the virus to the newly born.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [India] [Health] [HIV/AIDS] |
05/15/2008
IISD’s latest commentary Is Green Great?: Balancing the Demands of Environmental Protection and Human Needs, is the adaptation of Oli Brown's views made at a symposium, held in Portland, Oregon. The author feels that environmentalism is fundamentally about improving living conditions and a more efficient utilisation of resources.
Read moreRelated: [Development] [Energy] [Environment] [Environmental Activism] |
05/13/2008
Climate scientists are ready to bet serious money that recent global cooling predictions are wrong.
Read moreFrom: RealClimate Related: [Climate Change] Image: Gambling on climate © Oxfam Great Britain
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05/02/2008
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.
Read moreRelated: [United Kingdom] [Transport] [Climate Change] |
04/29/2008
Arctic scientists are preparing for the possibility that the North Pole could lose all its ice cover for a time in 2008.
Read moreFrom: New Scientist Related: [Climate Change] |
04/28/2008
Both carbon dioxide and methane emissions rose sharply in 2007. The extra methane could be the first sign of the anticipated release of this gas from thawing Arctic permafrost.
Read moreFrom: NOAA Related: [Climate Change] [Pollution] |
04/19/2008
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."
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [United States] [Education] [Climate Change] [Environmental Activism] [Communication] [Knowledge] |
04/08/2008
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.
Read moreFrom: The Rainforest Foundation - UK Related: [Democratic Republic of the Congo] [Land] [Forests] [Indigenous Rights] |
03/18/2008
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.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [Climate Change] Image: Himalayan Glaciers and the rivers they impact. © WWF-Canon / Neyret & Benastar / WWF
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03/18/2008
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.
Read moreRelated: [United Kingdom] [Climate Change] |
03/05/2008
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.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [Agriculture] [Intermediate Technology] [Corporations] [Biodiversity] [Conservation] [Genetics] |
03/04/2008
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.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [United States] [Transport] [Climate Change] [Politics] [Governance] [Law] |
02/28/2008
BROOKLIN, Canada, Feb 27 (IPS) - Free, authoritative and online: 1.8 million species.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service (IPS) Related: [Climate Change] [Biodiversity] [Internet] [Knowledge] Image: Azure Sapphire in Bhutan. © Piet van der Poel
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02/27/2008
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.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [United States] [Consumption] [Corporations] [Health] [Disease/treatment] [Infant Mortality] |
02/22/2008
Joukko Yhdysvaltain johtavia tieteentekijöitä on vedonnut maan kongressiin varmistaakseen, ettei maan seuraava presidentti sensuroi ja vääristä ympäristö- ja terveysalan tutkimusta. Tutkijoiden mukaan "poliittisesti arkaluontoisia asioita" sisältäviä tutkimuksia on George W. Bushin kaudella jätetty julkaisematta.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [United States] [Freedom of Expression] |
02/20/2008
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.
Read moreFrom: Global Campaign for Microbicides Related: [HIV/AIDS] [Gender] |
02/09/2008
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.
Read moreFrom: OneWorld US Related: [United States] [Pollution] [Health] [Civil Rights] [Codes of Conduct] [Governance] |
02/07/2008
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.
Read moreRelated: [South Asia] [Agriculture] [Aid] [Food] [Climate Change] Image: Making rice climate proof? © ActionAid UK
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02/05/2008
Teknologi Informasi (TI) yang kini berkembang amat pesat tak bisa dipungkiri memberikan kontribusi yang signifikan terhadap seluruh proses globalisasi ini. Mulai dari wahana TI yang paling sederhana (radio dan televisi), hingga internet dan ponsel, informasi mengalir dengan sangat cepat dan menyeruak ruang kesadaran banyak orang.
Read moreRelated: [Indonesia] [Information & Media] [Communication] [ICT] [Internet] [Knowledge] [Media] |
01/19/2008
Dura critica di Medici Senza Frontiere (Msf) agli articoli sulla malnutrizione pubblicati sull'ultimo numero della rivista 'The Lancet' che "minano il sostegno all'utilizzo degli alimenti terapeutici pronti all'uso per combattere la malnutrizione infantile". L'associazione sottolinea che il "nuovo approccio", recentemente promosso dalle maggiori agenzie dell'Onu attive nel settore, alla cura della malnutrizione è basato su cure domiciliari e a livello di comunità con gli alimenti terapeutici pronti all’uso spesso disponibili a livello locale, mentre gli articoli del Lancet sono centrati su un "approccio obsoleto" basato sul ricovero ospedaliero dei pazienti malnutriti. Secondo la ricerca del 'The Lancet' sono circa 3,5 milioni l'anno i bambini che muoiono per fame nel mondo mentre soffrono di malnutrizione 178 milioni di piccoli sotto i 5 anni, cioè il 32% dei bambini di questa età.
Read moreRelated: [Children] [Economy] [Infant Mortality] [Nutrition/Malnutrition] Image: Operatrice di Msf
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