Speaking at a British Ecological Society meeting at Burnham Beeches in Buckinghamshire on Friday 8 September, ecologist Dr Gill Stribley will say: “Our studies…
Prof Philip James, who chairs the International Obesity TaskForce (IOTF)*, said that the breakdown of the Doha round of World Trade Organization talks on…
“China’s health care system has undergone considerable changes toward a ‘fee for service’ model where access to treatment is affected by a patient’s ability to…
The State, officially the owner of all land, allocated to each family a right of use on rice-growing land and then on forest land. One of the objectives of…
Scientists from Newcastle University, who analysed UK weather records from 1961-2000, say the findings provide further evidence of climate change occurring. They also suggest that the 5 million people who live near to rivers – ten per cent of the UK population – can expect to be flooded with increasing regularity in the future which has implications for the management of flooding and water resources. …
SMART-1 scientists, engineers and space operations experts witnessed the final moments of the spacecraft’s life in the night between Saturday 2 and Sunday 3…
The human vector of Borrelia crocidurae in West Africa is the tick Ornithodoros sonrai, which lives in burrows of small wild rodents and is therefore in close…
Scientists from the Natural Environment Research Council have been tracking how rainwater moves through the layers of soil and rock in lowland catchment areas…
In the hope of rectifying matters, controlled, or so-called “agroecological”, modernization was launched a decade ago. It is based on the assumption that…
The disease has already destroyed coconut plantations in several world regions: East Africa, the Caribbean and Central America. Like all known phytoplasma…
This is what prompted the idea of setting up an international structure of scientific experts on biodiversity. The final declaration made at the conference on…
For Emmanuel Camus, Director of CIRAD's Animal Production and Veterinary Medicine Department, “both types of vector are suspected. The balance may swing one…
Professor Marc Brown, Chair in Pharmaceutics at the University of Hertfordshire who led the research will present his findings at the British Pharmaceutical…
Surprisingly as it may seem, this crane is the only one in the world that lives in the mountains! Its habitat is valleys of mountain rivers and lakes. Besides…
Russian researchers expect to get answers to these and other questions connected with laser application in medical practice via ascertaining how laser…
The system based on a number of Russian patents was devised and implemented by a group of researchers and inventors under the guidance of Mikhail Bukharov, Ph….
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