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 difference between the position of the Australian and the United States governments on climate change looks stark. Last week members of the Australian government celebrated the passing of a bill dismantling the carbon price, while last Wednesday US president Barack Obama delivered a speech arguing strongly for the need …
Pharmaceutical companies tend to highlight their role in saving lives, but say little about the impact their manufacturing processes might have on public health and the environment. Addressing that issue is at the heart of Phil Dahlin’s role as director of sustainability for Janssen, the pharmaceuticals arm of Johnson & …
American consumers are addicted to water. The average American uses over 2,000 gallons of water each day — two times the global average. But only a fraction of this water use comes directly from the tap. Most of the water is consumed indirectly, having been funneled into agriculture or commercial …
President Barack Obama derided climate-change skeptics as a “fringe” element as he highlighted his record on the environment and cutting greenhouse gas emissions before a conservation group. Obama yesterday indirectly criticized congressional Republicans, who he said view climate change as “a liberal plot.” “Many who say that actually know better …
Home Depot and other U.S. companies are working to eliminate or limit use of a type of pesticide suspected of helping cause dramatic declines in honeybee populations needed to pollinate key American crops, officials said on Wednesday. The moves include requiring suppliers to label any plants treated with neonicotinoid, or …
If Australia introduced mandatory emissions or fuel economy standards for cars, emissions could be reduced by millions of tonnes, a new report from the Climate Change Authority says. The restrictions on all light vehicles could avoid 59m tonnes of emissions by 2030 and double the fuel efficiency of light vehicles …
Unseasonal bouts of extreme weather across the US, Europe and Asia are the result of strong atmospheric currents which repeatedly direct floods, freezes and heatwaves to the same areas, scientists now claim. Cold snaps across eastern North America, flooding in western Asia and drought are caused by a variation in …
A report based on new satellite imagery says forests on the slopes of Alberta's Rocky Mountains are disappearing more quickly than anywhere else in the province — including the oilsands area. The Global Forest Watch data, to be released Thursday, suggests industrial development is cutting through forests on the eastern …
Nearly 3,500 water quality samples were collected from beaches along the East and West Coast as well as the Great Lakes, and one in 10 failed to pass the new Environmental Protection Agency water safety standard, which the NRDC used to evaluate beaches for the first time in 2013. Even …
A Bill to establish a task force to review policies and measures to promote, and to develop best practices for, reduction of short-lived climate pollutants, and for other purposes. See also: Bipartisan team to introduce Super Pollutants Act to cut HFCs, black carbon, methane http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/bipartisan-team-introduce-super-pollutants-act-cut-hfcs-black-carbon-methane Primer on Hydrofluorocarbons http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/primer-hydrofluorocarbons-0 Primer …
The President shall establish an interagency task force on short‐lived climate pollutant mitigation, whose members will consist of the secretaries/administrators/chairmen of all relevant federal regulators and cabinet agencies (or their designated representatives), including EPA, DoD, Interior, Energy, Commerce, State, Transportation, and Agriculture. See also: Bipartisan team to introduce Super Pollutants …
NEW YORK: Climate change will exact enormous costs on US regional economies in the form of lost property, reduced industrial output and higher health expenses, according to a report backed by a trio of men with vast business experience. The report, released Tuesday, is designed to convince businesses to factor …
Annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms of $35 billion; a decline in crop yields of 14 percent, costing corn and wheat farmers tens of billions of dollars; heat wave-driven demand for electricity costing utility customers up to $12 billion per year. These are among the economic costs …
People sleep in the shade in Manhattan's High Line Park on June 25, 2013 in New York City. It’s not the heat. It’s the humidity. And the U.S. is on a path to regularly experience a deadly combination of the two the likes of which have only been recorded once …
NEW YORK: Climate change will exact enormous costs on US regional economies in the form of lost property, reduced industrial output and higher health expenses, according to a report backed by a trio of men with vast business experience. The report, released Tuesday, is designed to convince businesses to factor …
A tornado touched down near Indianapolis on Tuesday afternoon damaging two dozen houses and causing no reported injuries as a severe weather front brought heavy winds and rain to the area, authorities said. Mike Ryan, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Indianapolis, said witnesses reported that the tornado …
The objective of the study was to describe the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of U.S. obstetricians on the topic of prenatal environmental exposures.
Annual property losses from hurricanes and other coastal storms of $35 billion; a decline in crop yields of 14 percent, costing corn and wheat farmers tens of billions of dollars; heat wave-driven demand for electricity costing utility customers up to $12 billion per year. These are among the economic costs …
Pregnant women who lived in close proximity to fields and farms where chemical pesticides were applied experienced a two-thirds increased risk of having a child with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental delay, according to a new study. The research discovered the associations were even stronger when the exposures occurred …
Environmentalists on Monday protested at the headquarters of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, calling on the agency to stop approving liquefied natural gas export facilities until the climate change impacts of the projects are better understood. The protesters blasted FERC's refusal to consider the greenhouse gas emissions that would …
