Earlier this year, Sydney officially opened its new water desalination plant, the largest so far in Australia and driven by renewable wind power. It is the third to open in the country but will soon be overtaken by further new desalination plants. Australia's response to the growing demand for water and the increasing scarcity and unpredictability of conventional supplies is being echoed around...

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Concerns over future oil scarcity might not be so worrying but for the high carbon content of substitutes, and the limited capacity of the atmosphere to absorb additional CO(2) from burning fuel. The paper argues that the tools of economics are helpful in understanding some of the key issues in pricing fossil fuels, the extent to which pricing can be left to markets, the need for, and design of...

T he mean survival time for people older than 60 years with acute myeloid leukemia (AmL) is about 7 months. only 15% survive 5 years or longer, and that percentage hasn't changed in decades. the poor prognosis for these patients is due in part to the fact that many cannot tolerate the toxic chemotherapy used as first-line treatment, a combination of cytarabine and daunorubicin. Both are generic...