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 …

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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

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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

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