Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
When Denmark's Novozymes first wondered in 2000 how its mass-produced enzymes could be used to make advanced biofuel, the industry did not exist and only now is the fruit of its labor emerging after years of being lampooned as a "fantasy fuel". But as commercial production of transportation fuel made …
More than 147 million people in the US live in areas where pollutant levels are above regulatory limits and pose a risk to health. Most of the vast network of air pollutant monitors in the US are located in places with higher pollution levels and a higher density of pollutant …
Producing energy resources requires significant quantities of fresh water. As an energy sector changes or expands, the mix of technologies deployed to produce fuels and electricity determines the associated burden on regional water resources. Many reports have identified the water consumption of various energy production technologies. This paper synthesizes and …
Flooding during high tides is now common in some places and is projected to grow to the point that sections of coastal cities may flood so often they would become unusable in the near future, according to a report the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) released, “Encroaching Tides: How Sea …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Chesapeake Bay region would reap an additional $22.5 billion a year from improved hurricane protection, crab and fish production and climate stability if the Obama administration's contested plan to clean up the watershed proceeds, an environmental group says. The assessment released Monday is based on a …
States saw little relief from poverty in the past year, especially among children, the unemployed and those in the lowest income brackets. The latest Census figures show that 17 states had increases in the number of people living in poverty from 2010 to 2011. Only one state, Vermont, showed a …
A shallow magnitude 3.7 earthquake was reported Monday morning eight miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 4:35 a.m. PDT at a depth of 4.3 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 45 miles from California City and 59 miles from Barstow. …
For nearly 20 years, New Englanders drank and bathed in water without knowing it was laced with a neurotoxin. The chemical leached into the water from vinyl coating sprayed inside water pipes in the late 1960s in response to complaints the water smelled and tasted funny. More than half of …
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an industry challenge to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations issued by Republican former President George W. Bush's administration that set standards for ozone pollution. By declining to hear the case, the court left in place the so-called primary air quality standards designed to protect …
A coalition of otherwise rival global corporations on Tuesday will announce they have jointly created a digital platform for young people to take action against climate change. Many of the 29 partners behind Collectively.org are fierce competitors – such as drinks giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, consumer goods companies Unilever and …
Researchers with financial ties to flu drug companies more often reported positive findings in their studies of the treatments, a new analysis found. Seven of eight studies that analyzed previous research and whose researchers had financial ties to the drug industry were considered favorable to the flu treatments, including Roche …
BP Plc (BP/) is seeking to undo payments to some victims of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill in a move opposing lawyers warn could open the floodgates to challenging hundreds of thousands of individual damage-claim awards. BP, which is struggling to hold down the estimated $9.2 billion cost of …
Handling medical waste generated by an Ebola patient proved to be one of the contingencies that U.S. hospitals were unprepared for, a top U.S. health official said on Saturday, adding that it "took longer than we would have wished" to fix the problem. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and …
Bisphenol A (BPA), a prevalent endocrine-disrupting chemical, has been associated with wheezing in children, but few studies have examined its effect on lung function or wheeze in older children. The objective of the study was to test whether BPA exposure is associated with lung function, with wheeze, and with pattern …
California will become the first state to outlaw single-use plastic shopping bags, after Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill intended to prevent billions of them from ending up in landfills and waterways. Beginning Jan. 1, stores with at least 10,000 square feet (929 square meters) of floor space can’t offer …
People's plunder and activity have caused a decline in wildlife population, a recent report says. With the increasing encroachment of land and resources due to hunting and poaching, the human world has halved the number of wild animals in the world in just 40 years, according to a shocking report …
They never actually broke bread together, but President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a small step toward warmer relations Tuesday when they agreed to work together on climate change, one of the most contentious issues facing the countries. News of a baby-step agreement came at the end …
California’s catastrophic drought has most likely been made worse by man-made climate change, according to a report released Monday by Stanford University, but scientists are still hesitant to fully blame the lack of rain on climate change. The research, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society as part …
Obesity is recognized as a major public health problem in recent times. One out of every 5 children in the U.S. is known to be overweight or obese and this number continues to rise. This excess of body fat negatively affects the child's health and wellbeing. The World Health Organization …
The governor of California on Tuesday vetoed a first-in-the-nation state law to reduce the use of antibiotics in livestock production and said lawmakers should look for “new and effective ways” to prevent antibiotic overuse. The bill would have outlawed the use of antibiotics for growth in animals and required all …
