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 Obama administration is trying to build support for a key element of its climate-change plan with appeals to everyone from trout fishermen to fans of Al Roker on the Weather Channel. The push to promote the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to curb carbon dioxide from power plants stands in …
British mining company that provided gold, silver and bronze for London 2012 Olympics sued over claims of 'illegal air pollution' The British mining company that provided the gold, silver and bronze for London 2012 Olympic medals is being sued over claims of "illegal air pollution" at the open pit mine …
Continued global warming could help create atmospheric conditions that are fertile breeding grounds for severe thunderstorms and tornadoes in the United States, a new study suggests. The findings, detailed in this week's issue of the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are based on the most …
The federal government is recommending a phased start to treatment of radioactive waste now held in underground tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state. The Department of Energy, in a report released Tuesday, proposes starting to treat some of Hanford's 56 million gallons of waste for disposal as …
WASHINGTON: The US government has announced a system to limit carbon emissions from new US power plants, marking the first time Washington attempting to control the proliferation of greenhouse gases. "The science tells us that climate change is real, human activities are fuelling that change, and we must take action …
Actions to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions often reduce co-emitted air pollutants, bringing co-benefits for air quality and human health. Past studies typically evaluated near-term and local co-benefits, neglecting the long-range transport of air pollutants long-term demographic changes, and the influence of climate change on air quality. Here we simulate …
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Thursday said the government will not sign any nuclear contract with the U.S. that was against national interest. Reacting to a report in The Hindu about the Attorney General’s recent opinion that Indian nuclear operators could waive their right of recourse against a foreign …
The government's effort to find an honourable way around the constraint of the nuclear liability law without actually violating it ran into rough weather on Thursday with the opposition accusing it of seeking to dilute the law for the sake of US and other foreign suppliers. The opposition seized upon …
Citgo Petroleum Corp has agreed to reduce air pollution and pay penalty to resolve environmental violations at refineries in Louisiana and Illinois, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday. The company would pay $737,000 as a civil penalty and implement projects designed to reduce toxic emissions over the next …
Scientists from the United States and Pakistan have introduced and tested ‘NARC-2011’, a new variety resistant to the feared ‘UG-99’ wheat variety. The Wheat Productivity Enhancement project (WPEP) of the US Department of Agriculture has shown its highest priority to introduce disease resistant wheat varieties to Pakistan. The WPEP is …
New Delhi : Amid reports that the government is working on not applying the supplier’s liability clause on US companies, it has emerged that the Attorney General’s opinion — the root of this concern — was sought in the Kudankulam case, where the Russians had wanted certain clarifications, and not …
The US and other developed nations may want India to toe their line in phasing out hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) - climate damaging refrigerant gas - but they won't find it easy to push New Delhi to junk its refusal to do so without viable alternatives. India is banking on the support …
New Delhi: The US and other developed nations may want India to toe their line in phasing out hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) — the climate damaging refrigerant gas — but they won’t find it easy to push New Delhi to junk its refusal to do so without viable alternatives. India is banking …
In a dispute stemming from a lengthy legal battle over Amazon rain forest pollution, arbitrators ruled that Chevron had already settled claims for damages in agreements with Ecuador despite a $19 billion award against the oil company. The international tribunal, acting under The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration, said in …
Property losses from flooding in Colorado will total nearly $2 billion, about half from housing and half in the commercial and government sectors, catastrophe modeling firm Eqecat said on Wednesday in the first comprehensive estimate of the disaster's economic toll. The projected residential property losses alone would be equivalent to …
California's pioneering efforts to combat global climate change got a big boost on Wednesday from a federal appeals court, which upheld a state program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for transportation fuels. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the central argument by fuel producers and allies that California …
Industrialised countries should phase out HFC says Sunita Narain, Director-General, CSE in this presentation at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 held from September 18-19, 2013. HFC: A lesson on how companies make money to save the world - Presentation by Sunita Narain, Director-General, CSE …
As the United States gets closer to being unable to meet federal biofuel targets, a regulatory adjustment would lessen the need for legislation to change the nation's renewable fuel policy, said a lawmaker who is examining the future of the ethanol program. Representative John Shimkus, a Republican from Illinois and …
Though legislation to promote energy efficiency remains in a holding pattern in the U.S. Senate, there was a glimmer of good news on American cities' efforts to achieve energy savings on their own. According to a new ranking by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, many of the nation's …
About eight in 10 stories contain some discussion of uncertainties and risk, according to Oxford analysis The uncertainties of climate change science have become a major focus of media coverage on the subject, a new study shows. About eight in 10 stories on climate change and related scientific research contain …
