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An innovation challenge: India and Denmark are engaging the young generation of technologists in the future of water May 12, 2021, 7:53 PM IST
Rajiv Kumar, Freddy Svane & Signe Westermann Kühn
India is currently facing massive water challenges, which in recent years have become one of the most urgent policy issues. The problem ranges across depleting underground water levels, unsafe drinking water, water loss due to inadequate sewerage systems, and untreated wastewater polluting India’s major rivers.
According to ‘The Composite Water Management Index 2018’, published by Niti Aayog, if the required measures are not implemented, the country’s water demand is further projected to be double of the available water supply by 2030. If this unprecedented situation did come to pass, which policy makers are determined will not be allowed to happen, it could mean severe water scarcity for hundreds of millions of people and cou
Russian jailed for spying in Denmark Published on Share
A Danish court on Monday sentenced a Russian man to three years in prison followed by expulsion from Denmark with no possibility of return, after he was found guilty of espionage.
The 36-year-old Denmark resident, whose name was not made public, was arrested in July 2020 but his case only came to light in December.
At the end of the closed trial, the Aalborg court said he had “gathered information over several years from the Technical University of Denmark and from a business in the northwest of the country, and transmitted this information to a Russian intelligence service in exchange for payment”.
Tuesday 11th May / presented by Jeff Bullen
Researchers from The University of Western Australia have developed a progressive new mining technique in collaboration with The CSIRO, the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Exeter. The new technique, which uses electric fields to extract metals from hard rock ore, could replace the traditional digging method of mining, a method which results in considerable environmental damage and global estimates of 100 gigatonnes of soil waste each year.
Professor Henning Prommer from UWA’s School of Earth Sciences joins
Jeff Bullen on
On the Record to discuss this new technique and what it could mean for mining in the future.
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Disturbing undercover footage from a Spanish research facility that tests on non-human animals came to light in April. Cruelty Free International (CFI) published the footage recorded at Madrid-based Vivotecnia. It showed numerous cases of apparent cruelty, some of which may have fallen foul of the law. EU law dictates that research facilities must choose methods of testing that cause the least amount of pain and suffering. Yet CFI recorded Vivotecnia staff, for example, drawing blood out of the eyes of conscious rats. CFI said the procedure should happen under anesthesia. Previous CFI investigations have shown “barbaric” mistreatment at other labs in the EU too.