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Green gauntlet
Costa Rica sets itself 'huge' carbon neutral target
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Cell change ‘keeps organs young’
Researchers may have found a way to halt the biological clock which slows down our bodies over the decades.
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Australian scientists in potential leukaemia breakthrough
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian scientists said Monday they had mapped a blood cell structure which could hold the key to improved drug treatments for diseases such as leukaemia, asthma and rheumatoid arthritis.
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Ethical coffee helps save Peruvian rainforest
Quillabamba, Peru (AFP) Aug 8, 2008 - Once bleak and lifeless places degraded by years of high-impact farming, Peruvian coffee farms are being transformed by a growing trend for certification schemes offering ethical and environmental guarantees to western consumers.
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A revoution in how we power our homes with cheap solar energy storageMIT - New research at MIT has opened the door to a 24 hour energy solution using the sun and solar energy. Plants store their energy in the evening and their is an abundance of energy during the day to allow for overnight storage. |
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106 miles per gallon—not just hot air?New York City, New York, USA - Here's a technology that might have traction -- cars that run on compressed air and fuel and provide as much as 106 miles per gallon. |
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Neanderthal Bone Yields Complete Mitochondrial Genome
The Neanderthal mitochondrial genome is sequenced from a 38,000-year-old bone.
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Israel and Palestinians to boost postal services with help from UN agency
Israeli and Palestinian postal authorities have agreed to start direct mail exchanges between the Palestinian Authority and the 191 member countries of the United Nations Universal Postal Union (UPU), with mail transiting through Jordan.
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Human rights outlook in Togo is improving, UN and African experts say
The prospects for protecting and promoting human rights in Togo are improving, but defenders of rights still face serious obstacles to carrying out their work, experts with the United Nations and African Union (AU) have said after visiting the West African country.
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Peruvian doctors showcase high cure rate for drug-resistant TB
More than 60 per cent of patients diagnosed with a type of tuberculosis that is very difficult to treat were cured with aggressive drug treatment, according to a study from Peru that shows the disease is not a 'death sentence.'
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