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Bleak Times For The Orange Roughy
A committee of high-level marine scientists are calling for an immediate drop in fishing effort on deep sea stocks such as the orange roughy. According to a report which is released by ICES today (11 June), most deep sea fish stocks are being overfished. Scientists are recommending that not only... view more (2004-06-10)

Model helps explore patterns of urban sprawl and implicaitons for quality of life
Americans like living in cities, and according to statistics in the United Nations World Population Database so do an increasing number of people throughout the world.   view more (2007-02-20)

The desert is dying
Researchers from University of Bergen have found that trees, which are a main resource for desert people and their flocks, are in significant decline in the hyper-arid Eastern Desert of Egypt.   view more (2007-02-14)

Bird samples from Mongolia confirmed as H5N1 avian flu
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has positively identified the pathogenic form of avian flu-H5N1-in samples taken from birds last week in Mongolia by field veterinarians from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).   view more (2005-08-22)

ESA and the European Commission launch a consultation forum on satellite-based Global Monitoring for Environment and Security
Satellites can help the EU monitor climate change, address international crises and contain natural disasters. Today in Brussels EU Research Commissioner Philippe Busquin and Mr Antonio Rodot' , the Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA), officially opened a large stakeholder... view more (2002-07-16)

Breaking down barriers: the latest science news from BBSRC
Lilliputian laboratories (p6) New methods for researching 'in miniature' and exploiting the electrical and chemical interactions between molecules and cells are opening up a new area of ingenious science.   view more (1999-12-21)

In a last 'stronghold' for endangered chimpanzees, survey finds drastic decline
In a population survey of West African chimpanzees living in Côte d'Ivoire, researchers estimate that this endangered subspecies has dropped in numbers by a whopping 90 percent since the last survey was conducted 18 years ago.   view more (2008-10-14)

Charles Clarke opens 'green, joined-up thinking' research centre
Secretary of State for Education, Charles Clarke MP, will visit the University of East Anglia (UEA) today (Thursday 4 September) to officially open the Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research. The Zuckerman Institute for Connective Environmental Research (ZICER), within UEA's... view more (2003-09-01)

ESA providing Kyoto estimates of French Guiana's tropical forests
ESA is providing data from its Earth observation satellites to monitor the tropical forests in French Guiana and help the French government meet its obligations under the international Kyoto Protocol agreement on global warming. Like all the so-called "Annex I" signatories to the Kyoto... view more (2003-06-05)

Surviving the Third Millennium: Sustainable Resource Management
The use of key resources such as forests, fisheries and energy is likely to be unsustainable and threaten the ability of SE Asia to build an environmentally and economically stable future in the face of global change, say a group of international scientists meeting in Bali this week. In the 1980s... view more (2002-06-02)

Ewe parasite research to save £80m a year
New research at the University of Leeds has overturned existing advice to farmers that has been maintaining the disease toxoplasma in the nation's sheep flocks for years. Toxoplasma is a disease humans catch from sheep and cats that causes human abortions and birth defects with greater frequency... view more (2004-03-24)

Prepare CO2 capture and storage now for greater environmental benefit later
CO2 capture and storage can make a major contribution to CO2 reduction in the Netherlands. By the mid-21st century 80 to 110 million tonnes of CO2 per year could be avoided in the sectors energy, industry and transport. This is half of the current CO2 emission. Moreover, this can be realised... view more (2007-04-16)

Genome archaeology illuminates the genetic engineering debate
Genome Research's cover story for Oct. 2 tells a tale of "genome archaeology" by genetic researchers who dug deeply into the long history of maize and rice.   view more (2006-10-04)

Size of herd determines status and access to resources in Kenya
Less livestock wealth, means less chance of access to arable land, grain production and friends. Kenyan and Dutch researchers Adano Roba and Karen Witsenburg have discovered that this is the hard truth faced by poor households in North Kenya. They therefore argue that poverty alleviation measures... view more (2004-11-17)

Seawater intrusion is the first cause of contamination of coastal aquifers
Seawater intrusion is often the consequence of freshwater aquifers overexploitation. This is a very common and serious phenomenon all over the Mediterranean basin, as well as in other areas with similar weather conditions and population.   view more (2007-07-30)

Four Million More Health Workers Required To Improve Global Health (p 1984)
Authors of a public-health article in this week's issue of THE LANCET are calling for urgent international action to address the chronic lack of investment in human resources which is limiting the chance of tackling diseases such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB. The Lancet article is an executive... view more (2004-11-24)

Scientists In Germany And Hebrew University Illuminate Key Process In Control Of Flowering In Plants
The molecular mechanism plants have adopted to trigger flowering in response to changes in light duration and quality has been demonstrated by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research in Cologne, Germany, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Their recent findings,... view more (2004-02-12)

“Black clocks” call time on invasive flatworm
Entomologists in Belfast may finally have found a way of limiting the spread of the New Zealand flatworm, which invaded the British Isles in the 1960s. Speaking at the Royal Entomological Society’s national meeting Entomology 2002, which will take place at Cardiff University on 12–13... view more (2002-09-04)

Press Invitation: Steps to lighten the Isle of Wight's 'Ecological Footprint'
Although the Isle of Wight is at the forefront of waste recycling in the UK, the imprint it leaves on the environment is still much too big, according to an analysis of its Ecological Footprint. This is the finding of the first study of its kind to be introduced in this country, commissioned... view more (2000-11-08)

Dangerous wheat disease jumps Red Sea
A new form of stem rust, a virulent wheat disease, has jumped from eastern Africa and is now infecting wheat in Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula.   view more (2007-01-17)

In a bug-eat-bug world, researchers are using a unique Chinese import to battle soybean aphids
University of Minnesota scientists are field testing a beneficial insect, a stingless wasp from China also known as Binodoxys communis, that kills soybean aphids. A successful field test would be a major breakthrough in controlling a damaging crop pest.   view more (2007-07-25)

Latest IMM-newsletter "IMMage" published
Special issue "reforming technology" „Micro systems for the people" was the motto of the last issue of our newsletter "IMMage". The urgent need for a sustainable, environmentally sound and resource sparing energy supply is certainly one of the questions concerning our... view more (2004-07-13)

European Transport Policy and Research: What Future?
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT   view more (1999-02-26)

The European Commission's Joint Research Centre and the European Environment Agency join forces for the Benefit of Europe's Environment
Both Directors emphasised the importance of providing support to policy making through dedicated joint activities related to issues such as climate change, the monitoring of chemicals of concern and their effects on the environment, and the protection and recuperation of Europe's natural resources,... view more (1999-09-30)

Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis
Improved agricultural productivity can help developing countries reduce their reliance on international emergency food relief following natural disasters. This is one of the conclusions of a team of International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) scientists who visited cyclone-devastated Myanmar in... view more (2008-09-18)
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