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. …
The urban heat island (UHI), a common phenomenon in which surface temperatures are higher in urban areas than in surrounding rural areas, represents one of the most significant human-induced changes to Earth’s surface climate. Even though they are localized hotspots in the landscape, UHIs have a profound impact on the …
How an individual responds to the environment depends upon both personal life history as well as inherited genetic and epigenetic factors from ancestors. Using a ‘two-hit, 3 generations apart’ model, we tested how F3 descendants of rats given in utero exposures to the environmental endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) vinclozolin reacted to …
As water utilities across North America undertake capital campaigns to finance the replacement and expansion of their systems, the need for confident revenue projections grows. Yet many water utilities are subject to factors that can affect revenue variability, including volatile weather patterns and a growing imperative to conserve scarce water …
BEIJING: Chinese and US firms and research institutes on Tuesday signed agreements on eight joint projects for coping with climate change ahead of a strategic dialogue between the two countries. The projects address carbon capture, usage and storage, hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) reduction, and the move toward low-carbon cities and a low-carbon …
Drought in the south-western US will deplete the vast Lake Mead this week to levels not seen since Hoover Dam was completed and the reservoir on the Colorado River was filled in the 1930s, federal water managers said Tuesday. The projected lake level of about 1,080 feet above sea level …
Nearly 100 Boy Scouts were evacuated from a mountain camp in southern Colorado on Tuesday after heavy rains caused flash flooding in an area that was stripped of vegetation by a 2013 wildfire, authorities said. The evacuees from the Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch, about 150 miles south of Denver, were …
California regulators violated the law by approving expanded use of pesticides that have been shown to hurt honeybees needed for pollinating key American crops, according to a lawsuit filed against the state by environmental groups on Tuesday. The lawsuit seeks an injunction prohibiting the state Department of Pesticide Regulation from …
Thunderstorms and high winds swept through the U.S. Northeast on Tuesday following tornado warnings, killing three people in New York state and a boy who was crushed to death by a fallen tree in Maryland, weather and emergency officials said. One of the hardest-hit spots was a community outside the …
Companies and research institutes from China and the United States on Tuesday signed deals on eight joint projects for coping with climate change just before a China-US high-level annual meeting opens on Wednesday. The projects address carbon capture, usage and storage, hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) reduction, and the move toward low-carbon cities …
Report is the first of its kind to prescribe concrete actions that the biggest 15 economies must take to keep warming below 2C The United Nations was presented with a roadmap to avoid a climate catastrophe on Tuesday, prescribing specific actions for the world’s biggest economies to keep warming below …
This interim 2014 report by the Deep Decarbonization Pathway Project (DDPP) summarizes preliminary findings of the pathways developed by the DDPP Country Research Teams with the objective of achieving emission reductions consistent with limiting global warming to less than 2°C. The DDPP is a knowledge network comprising 15 Country Research …
Apple released its 2014 Environmental Responsibility Report, posting the new information on its updated Environmental Initiatives website. The report, which covers fiscal 2013, highlights the progress Apple has made towards its environmental goals, which include reducing climate change by using renewable energy sources, using greener materials, and conserving "precious resources."
In November 2010, three combatants gathered in a sleek office here to build a carbon emissions policy that they hoped to sell to the Obama administration. One was a lawyer who had been wielding the Clean Air Act since his days at the University of California, Berkeley. Another had turned …
As wars go, the fight between clean and dirty energy sources is more like a centuries-old religious conflict than shock and awe. That’s one lesson from a new study of U.S. power generation by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. In 2040, the electricity sector might not look radically different …
The U.S., European Union and 12 other governments in the World Trade Organization have opened negotiations on a trade deal aimed at ending tariffs on environmental goods such as wind turbines and solar panels. The WTO members agreeing to the talks announced today in Geneva account for 86 percent of …
U.S. efforts to regulate greenhouse gases will fall short of the European Union’s goal of reducing emissions by 40 percent by 2030, according to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. The Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to regulate emissions from coal-burning power plants will reduce carbon dioxide by 18 percent by …
Lawmakers in New Jersey, with some of the toughest anti-smoking laws in the U.S., are seeking more restrictions with the first statewide ban at beaches and parks and the nation’s highest minimum age, 21, to buy tobacco. The proposals come as Republican Governor Chris Christie, a 51-year-old Republican considering a …
Babcock & Wilcox Co., a U.S. energy-equipment manufacturer, has found itself again in the cross hairs of Beijing’s environmental protection bureau. Although Babcock was just one of 114 companies cited in June for violating Beijing’s air-pollution laws, the bureau appears to be singling out the company as one of its …
A strong earthquake rocked much of southern Mexico and Central America on Monday, setting off mudslides, damaging scores of buildings and disrupting communications vital to the relief effort. At least three people died, including a newborn, and dozens were hurt, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said. The U.S. Geological Survey …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal agency has fined the company that spilled chemicals into West Virginia's largest water supply $11,000 for a pair of violations. The Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Freedom Industries $7,000 for keeping storage tanks containing crude MCHM behind a diked wall that was …
