Crisis deepens
Ireland becomes the fourth EU country to ban fracking
Fracking is a controversial method used to extract shale gas by breaking rock and is considered to be very harmful for the environment
High-flying disease
From now onwards we have to battle with another mysterious enemy. Since February 2003, a disease similar to influenza has 'officially' killed 48 …
Bytes
Households top Irish dioxin emitters' list
Stuart Cole on effective transport management
Transport economist Stuart Cole is director of the Wales Transport Research Centre in Cardiff. On a recent visit to Mumbai, he spoke to Nidhi …
Infection threat from clean hospitals too
In Short
Salted lands of Australia
Bad cropping practices and ill-planned water management leads to salted Australian farmland
Science & Technology - Briefs
Ireland ratifies Nagoya-Kuala Lumpur Supplementary Protocol
India, despite being the current president of Convention on Biological Diversity, has not yet ratified it
Northern Ireland rides on tidal power