A pilot study, to be conducted next week, will expose a small area of skin on volunteers’ arms to cellphone radiation for the duration of a long phone call, or for one hour, research professor Dariusz Leszczynski said on Friday. Researchers will then take a skin sample to study and compare with one taken before [...]
In many cases road and rail building, dam construction and irrigation schemes partly or totally financed by the EU’s executive Commission contradict conservation programmes promoted by?the 25-nation Union itself, a new WWF report asserted. "Europe has to take responsibility for its own species, but at present the European Union is using its funds both to [...]
"We will analyse the conclusions (of inspectors) … and may start lifting restrictions from Apr. 1," Sergei Dankvert told Reuters. "This does not mean that the ban from all firms will definitely be lifted. Concrete decisions will be taken on concrete firms," he added. Russia introduced the ban on fresh Norwegian salmon imports on Jan.1, [...]
The four groups are led by Energias de Portugal (EDP), local energy company Galp Energia, Spain’s Iberdrola and Gamesa and Italy’s Enel. "Four groups of companies presented proposals," said Manuela Fonseca, an official at the economy ministry’s geology and energy department. The two-phase project should generate 1,500 megawatts of wind power. EDP estimated it would [...]
Putin’s powerful call put energy security firmly at the centre of the agenda for Russia’s presidency this year of the Group of Eight industrialised nations. It also served to deflect Western criticism of Russia’s democratic record and offset damaging publicity linked to January’s dispute with Ukraine over the price of Russian gas, which disrupted supplies [...]
Yet the company can count itself lucky. Even with further project delays and cost increases possible, it is making steady progress on Sakhalin 2, one of only two developments underway in a region officials say holds more crude oil and natural gas than Europe’s North Sea. A jetty stretching into the icy waters off Russia’s [...]
The Commission, which administers and instigates laws for the 25-country EU, wants to ban the marketing of mercury in new fever and room thermometers, barometers and blood pressure gauges due to its serious threat to health. "This measure will reduce the amount of toxic mercury entering the waste stream. This is good for our citizen’s [...]
Britain had sought to change its original allocation of pollution rights to allow industry to pump out an additional 20 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), the main gas blamed for global warming, in the 2005-2007 period. The EU emissions trading scheme is its key instrument to fight climate change and meet commitments under the [...]
"We intend to be much more active in the wind, power, solar energy, biomass and geothermal areas," Rubenstein said. "We think it’s an extremely attractive area in which to invest, particularly because many states in the US now require that utilities buy a certain percentage of their energy from solar, biomass, geothermal or wind power [...]
Representatives of green groups, in interviews this week, said a ban on GMO?s should have come into force well before Romania joins the European Union either next year or in 2008. An earlier ban would have given farmers enough time to switch to conventional crops and authorities more time to develop a monitoring system for [...]
