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. …
India voiced firm opposition on Tuesday to EU plans to impose a scaled-back carbon charge on flights over European airspace while a senior U.S. lawmaker said the EU proposal runs afoul of a law intended to shield U.S. airlines from such charges. The European Commission, the EU executive, last week …
U.S. regulators and livestock producers have failed to curb the use of antibiotics in cattle, pigs and poultry despite concerns that excessive use in meat production will reduce the drugs' effectiveness in humans, a panel of experts said. "Meaningful change is unlikely in the future," concluded the 14-member panel, assembled …
Severe droughts that happen once every 20 years will affect New Zealand once every two to five years by the year 2100 and the country's Pacific neighbors will need help to deal with the impacts of climate change, a leading New Zealand climate scientist warned Wednesday. Auckland University climate scientist …
US Special Envoy for Climate Change Todd Stern (L) and Vice Chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission of China Xie Zhenhua (R) attend the 'Ecopartnership' event highlighting US-China agreements on energy and the environment, on July 11, 2013. Rigid rules and emissions targets may hinder efforts to draft …
Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi was never trained to handle pesticides. His job was to keep the crop-dusters flying by filling their tanks as quickly as possible, although it often meant getting drenched in poison. Now, at 47, he’s a living skeleton, so weak he can hardly leave his house in …
The amount of oil found on Louisiana's coast has surged this year, three years after BP's Macondo spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, the state's Coastal Protection & Restoration Authority said. Some 3.01 million pounds of "oily material" were cleaned up on Louisiana's coast from March to August this …
A plan to create the city of Buffalo's first public beach for swimming could be derailed by concerns over pollution along a stretch of Lake Erie waterfront. The Buffalo News reports (http://bit.ly/1c7Bwhg ) that a report prepared for the Erie County Health Department concludes that opening Gallagher Beach in South …
EU Finance Ministers fail to agree on putting any figure on the table at the Warsaw meet. Hopes of a commitment from the developed world to scale up finance for the short term at the Warsaw climate change conference have faded. The recently concluded meeting of EU Finance Ministers did …
The European Union on Wednesday revived a proposal to charge foreign airlines for emissions over European airspace, drawing the ire of airline groups who say it goes against spirit of a recent global aviation deal and could reignite trade tensions. The proposal from the European Commission to cover the 2014-2020 …
The goal of influenza-like illness (ILI) surveillance is to determine the timing, location and magnitude of outbreaks by monitoring the frequency and progression of clinical case incidence. Advances in computational and information technology have allowed for automated collection of higher volumes of electronic data and more timely analyses than previously …
The developed countries should not count private investments against the commitment of $100 billion annual fund for fighting climate change, India demanded, along with several other developing countries, at the recently meeting of select countries in Warsaw. Poland was the host of this year’s annual climate talks. The meeting, called …
The storm was just so sudden, South Dakota cattle rancher Kathy Jobgen remembers. A freezing rain, followed by an avalanche of four feet of snow and winds of 70 miles an hour, hit thousands of cattle still grazing on "summer pastures" at a time when the animals had not yet …
Scientists say they are more certain than ever about the impact of global warming on a critical weather pattern. The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) occurs in the Pacific Ocean but plays an important part in the world's climate system. Researchers have until now been unsure as to how rising temperatures …
The world must eliminate emissions from burning fossil fuels in the second half of this century to lower the economic cost of climate change, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Wednesday. Leading economist and climate change expert Nicholas Stern has said that investment equivalent to 2 …
In this paper we study the simultaneous problems of food waste and hunger in the context of food (waste) rescue and redistribution as a means for mitigating hunger. To this end, we develop an empirical model that can be used in Monte Carlo simulations to study the dynamics of the …
A vaccine against malaria could be introduced in the world’s worst-hit countries in 2015, after the latest trial of a treatment produced by Britain’s biggest drug company reduced the number of cases of the disease experienced by babies. The results of trials published on Tuesday in Durban, South Africa, showed …
ICAO agrees to put in place by 2020 a market-based system to curb carbon emissions from airlines India, along with countries like China, Russia and the US, scored a diplomatic victory in the aviation sector. The UN body in charge of civil aviation, International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), made it …
The objective of the study was to investigate whether exposure to aircraft noise increases the risk of hospitalization for cardiovascular diseases in older people (≥65 years) residing near airports. Multi-airportretrospective study of approximately 6 million older people residing near airports in the United States. The authors superimposed contours of aircraft …
It’s not just the US, France and Russia that have a problem with India’s nuclear liability law. The Indian nuclear industry has asked Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to ensure the law’s provisions do not apply to their supplies for nuclear reactors, marking the first clear domestic opposition to the …
A global mechanism that could cut airlines' carbon emissions from 2020 has been supported by the International Civil Aviation Organisation's (ICAO) 191 member countries. The deal was reached at the ICAO's annual assembly in Montreal on Friday, where countries agreed on a comprehensive strategy to progress technology, operations and alternative …
