Over a few years since commercial operations began at scale, shale gas has helped consumer gas prices in the US to fall by about a third; its offered gas security to the US and Canada for maybe 100 years; and its presented an opportunity to generate electricity at half the CO2 emissions of coal.
ECB President tells insiders that secretive group of international bankers – responsible to no nation state – will become primary engine of world government
The European Commission ended an unofficial 12- year-old freeze on approval of genetically modified (GM) products Tuesday by green-lighting cultivation of a potato developed by German agrochemical firm BASF.
Goldman Sachs, the giant investment bank, is today at the centre of the row over the Greek governments finances, amid recriminations over complex financial deals that allowed the eurozone nation to skirt its debt limits.
The most complex genetically engineered corn (maize) yet has been approved for use next year in Canada and the United States without its potential health and environmental risks being investigated, anti-biotech activists charged Wednesday.
The Ug99 fungus, called stem rust, could wipe out more than 80% of the world′s wheat as it spreads from Africa, scientists fear. The race is on to breed resistant plants before it reaches the U.S.
Some worried commentators are predicting a massive hyperinflation of the sort suffered by Weimar Germany in 1923, when a wheelbarrow full of paper money could barely buy a loaf of bread. An April 29 editorial in the San Francisco Examiner warned:
