Biotechnology is not a new advancement in the area of science. It actually has been utilized for years, but was not significantly described as biotechnology. In its simple form, biotechnology means utilizing living organisms or their products to revise or change human health or the environment, or to run a process. Biotechnology itself is the combination of biology and other sciences to create new, innovative products in the agricultural sector, industrial sector and environmental industries. The products include medicines, vaccines, growth hormones for plants and food additives.

The article urges the South African government to license a new lab for research on genetically modified sorghum.

1977: The Age of biotechnology arrives with “somatostatin” - a human growth hormone-releasing inhibitory factor, the first human protein manufactured in bacteria by Genentech, Inc. A synthetic, recombinant gene was used to clone a protein for the first time. 1978: Genentech, Inc. and The City of Hope National Medical Center announce the successful laboratory production of human insulin using recombinant DNA technology. Hutchinson and Edgell show it is possible to int...

The World is changing rapidly at the hands of man and man is only just waking up to the potential dangers whether they are natural or man made. Increasingly in the future opportunities will exist in many areas of government and business, as well as pressure groups, for graduates in environmental studies. For those interested in the environment an environmental science degree must be seriously considered when looking at university or college.

A home that is green is a home built and run with the environment in mind. With the threat of global warming becoming more urgent everyday, the average family needs to do their part to make as little impact as possible.

Through the combined efforts of government, grassroots organizations and environmentally minded companies, Earth Day has evolved into a worldwide campaign to protect the global environment.

There are ways to preserve memories while respecting the environment--and that's good news for the growing number of American scrapbookers.

As more and more people are becoming aware of the environment and looking towards a greener future, firms are recognising the need to be seen as taking responsibility in the impact they are having on the economy, environment and society.

We hear all the time about Global warming and the greenhouse effect and we are told about the responsibility we have in reducing the effect we are having on the environment, but do we understand how the greenhouse effect works and if infact, it is a real theory or not?