Scientists working on the EC-funded research project Monacat, are looking at how nanomaterials can remove water pollutants such as nitrates. “Nitrate reduction has been studied for decades; it’s very hard to do and it isn’t commercially viable,” says Alexei Lapkin, professor of chemical engineering at the University of Warwick, who works on Monocat. Nitrates [...]
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A petition signed by more than 18,000 people also asks the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Mexico’s most-wanted drugs lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman. The Mexican government has denied the accusations of crimes against humanity. It says its security policy cannot constitute an international crime. Human rights lawyer Netzai Sandoval filed a complaint [...] In Namibia, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism has earmarked an additional 15 550 square kilometres of land for conservation. The land will be brought under protected landscapes management arrangements under a new project which is designed to conserve biodiversity. The recently launched Namibia Protected Landscape Conservations Areas Initiative (NAM-PLACE) is a five-year project,which [...] Eight South American countries pledged to boost cooperation to protect one of the planet’s largest natural reserves from deforestation and illegal trafficking in timber and minerals. Representatives of Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela gathered in Manaus, northern Brazil, also vowed to speak with one voice at next June’s UN conference [...] The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and US military special operations teams carried out frequent espionage and counter-terrorism missions inside Somalia starting in 2003, according to a recent series of articles in a newspaper focused on the US Army.Secret operatives who flew or swam to Somalia planted cameras and phone-tapping devices and paid local warlords [...] Afghanistan has many dubious distinctions on the international-rankings front: 10th-poorest, third-most corrupt, worst place to be a child, longest at war. To that may soon be added: most heavily fingerprinted. Since September, Afghanistan has been the only country in the world to fingerprint and photograph all travelers who pass through Kabul International Airport, arriving [...] Four Himalayan nations facing the threat of weather changes have agreed to collaborate on ways to adapt to climate change after a two-day summit in Bhutan. India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Bhutan were part of the Climate Summit for a Living Himalayas held in Bhutan’s capital Thimphu on Saturday. They agreed to cooperate on energy, [...] The U.S. Army hypersonic weapon prototype streaked across the Pacific Ocean at several times the speed of sound today (Nov. 17, 2011) in a flawless test flight. The success could pave the way for a new military capability to strike targets anywhere on Earth in as little as an hour. Such a hypersonic weapon [...] The police will deploy 19,000 officers to secure a shipment of German atomic waste from France to Lower Saxony next week amid expectations of huge anti-nuclear protests. Kerstin Rudek, the chairwoman of a citizens’ initiative in the surrounding Lüchow-Dannenberg district has said the protests would be peaceful. Nevertheless, police are expecting a hard core [...] The United States Navy announced that it signed a $17 million contract with Northrop Grumman to arm its fleet of MQ-8B Fire Scout unmanned helicopter drones. The LA Times reports the maker of the drone will install laser-guided missiles to target drug-runners, pirates, and battleships. This will make the MQ-8B the first, sea-based, armed [...] |
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