Audio/podcast
Kyrgyz journalism training is too ‘Soviet’ claims AUCA department chair

According to Gurkin, Kyrgyz journalism still contains a lot of details borrowed from the Soviet school of journalism because it mostly copies the Russian way of doing journalism. “It is not appropriate at all. We are lagging behind current tendencies of journalism”.

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Posted on 4th June 2010No Comments
Industrial agriculture one of main causes for biodiversity loss

Recent studies reveal that biodiversity is facing serious threats, with industrial agriculture as one of the main culprits.

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Posted on 20th May 2010No Comments
Foreign bug will be introduced to control UK Knotweed

Have scientists found a way to limit the growth of Japanese knotweed?

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Posted on 20th May 2010No Comments
Food additives: Interview with Prof. Martin Caraher

Prof. Martin Caraher, of City University London’s Centre for Food Policy, express his views about food additives.

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Posted on 20th May 2010No Comments
Climate Change is centre stage in the election campaign for a night

Climate Change and the Environment did not feature highly in the General Election, with the economy taking central stage.

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Posted on 20th May 2010No Comments
Clive Hamilton interview

Christine Ottery speaks to Professor Clive Hamilton on how to get people to act on climate change.

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Posted on 20th May 2010No Comments
Barefoot running

Christine Ottery spoke to some experts, including podiatrist Justin Coulter and sports scientist Lee Saxby to find out if barefoot running is better than running with shoes.

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Posted on 20th May 2010No Comments
India’s participation in I-SWEEEP

India sent a team of students to the International Sustainable World (Energy, Engineering and Environment) Project Olympiad for the first time this year. Achintya Rao spoke to Dr Arnab Bhattacharya, co-chair of the IRIS Scientific Review Committee that selects and guides the students, to ask him about the experience.

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Posted on 20th May 2010No Comments
Bowel cancer test could save lives

A one-off five-minute procedure reduces deaths from bowel cancer by 43 per cent and decreases the incidence of the disease by a third.

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Posted on 20th May 2010No Comments
The role of Kazakhstan as the OSCE`s chair

On 1 January, Kazakhstan became the first ex-Soviet state to chair the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, or OSCE. Annette Bohr, associate fellow for the Russia and Eurasia Programme at Chatham House spoke to Gulnura Toralieva about Kazakhstan’s role as the OSCE chair.

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Posted on 17th April 2010No Comments