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IEMA Responds to Government Call for Action on Climate Change Adaptation
IEMA has recently responded to a Government call for action on climate change adaptation with consultation on draft EIA Principles. Click on the headline for more details.
Solar–powered desalination could help avoid water shortages
A new solar-powered desalination technology could help solve water shortage problems without any damage to the environment, according to researchers. They evaluated a prototype model and demonstrated that it could produc...
Global efforts halt depletion of life–preserving ozone layer, UN reports
International efforts to protect the ozone layer shielding life on Earth from harmful levels of ultraviolet rays have stopped additional ozone losses, potentially averting scores of millions of cases of skin cancer and e...
Toyota may supply Daimler with hybrid parts
Toyota Motor Corp is in talks to supply Daimler AG, the maker of Mercedes-Benz cars, with parts and technology for hybrid vehicles. Daimler approached Toyota and is looking to use the Japanese automaker's hybrid system i...
World's largest mining group calls for carbon tax in Australia
The world's biggest mining company has called for Australia to introduce a carbon tax, reopening a debate that helped to bring down the previous prime minister and pitted large sections of the mining community against th...
Global warming could cut number of Arctic hurricanes, study finds
Global warming could halve the frequency of Arctic hurricanes � extreme storms that strike the north Atlantic during winter � by 2100, according to a new study, potentially encouraging exploitation of the region's oil re...
UN and Central Asian countries agree measures to conserve antelopes
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and several governments in Central Asia and Russia have concluded an agreement on conservation measures for the migratory Saiga antelopes, whose population have been in dec...
Kia plan 2,500 electric vehicles by 2012
Kia Motors, South Korea's No.2 carmaker, plans to produce 2,000 units of its new electric vehicles by 2012, an executive at its affiliate Hyundai Motor said.
Peru's wells sucked dry by British love of asparagus
Asparagus grown in Peru and sold in the UK is commonly held up as a symbol of unacceptable food miles, but a report has raised an even more urgent problem: its water footprint.
Bats with regional accents?
In Britain, a Liverpudlian can have trouble understanding a Geordie accent from Newcastle, and a posh north Londoner can sound nothing like an East Ender living just a few kilometres away.