Ecology-brand unknown to consumers
Only 20 percent of the population know that organic foods are labeled with E-mark. The figures appear in a survey conducted for the MMI Constable Advertising AS on behalf of the Norwegian Agricultural Authority. 77 percent are aware that there is a labeling system for organic products, but only 20 percent know that it is [...]
Summary of the climate meeting in Bangkok
The first round of negotiations for the climate summit in Mexico showed that there are still sharp differences between rich and poor countries towards a new climate agreement. Dispute over what questions will be given priority until the next summit and the future of the Kyoto Protocol dominated the weeklong meeting in Bangkok. It was [...]
No more Chernobyl
On the morning of the 26th April 1986, the northern Ukraine, exploded reactor number four at Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Clouds of radioactive fallout was pumped out of the area and spread over large parts of Europe. There were discharged between 100 and 400 times more radiation than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. [...]