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. …
Increased concentrations of ozone and fine particulate matter (PM2.5) since preindustrial times reflect increased emissions, but also contributions of past climate change. Here we use modeled concentrations from an ensemble of chemistry–climate models to estimate the global burden of anthropogenic outdoor air pollution on present-day premature human mortality, and the …
US Ambassador Richard Olson gave nod to the $387 million Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Programme in Sindh, here on Friday. Olson and Sindh Secretary Health Inamullah Khan Dharejo signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for this five-year project. Under this initiative, US Agency for International Development (USAID) will support …
In the full glare of Washington’s summer sunshine, Barack Obama unveiled what he called “a co-ordinated assault on a changing climate” on June 25th. He promised to deploy almost every green weapon at his disposal, from better insulation in public buildings to loan guarantees for clean energy. To engage the …
This is an unusually busy moment in the unhappy history of efforts to curb climate change. In two weeks at the end of June the world’s three biggest polluters unveiled carbon-reducing measures. In China and America these are more ambitious than previous policies. But they fall far short of what …
Pune: The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), the national food regulatory body, has issued an advisory following the outbreak of salmonellosis, a food-borne bacterial infection, in the US and New Zealand. Use of Tahini sesame paste from Turkey in food preparations has been found to be the …
President Barack Obama's climate plan on Tuesday offered help to U.S. cities dealing with natural disasters and specifically for the region slammed by massive Superstorm Sandy in October. For Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey the plan came not a moment too soon. Hoboken, across the Hudson River from …
At the US-India Strategic Dialogue in the Capital on Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry and external affairs minister Salman Khurshid reaffirmed their countries’ strong commitment to energy security, combat global climate change and support the development of low-carbon economies to create opportunities. The US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) …
In a win for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider the legality of a controversial Obama administration effort to regulate air pollution that crosses state lines. At the request of the administration, the American Lung Association and environmental groups, the justices will revisit …
India and the United States have agreed to set up a new working group on climate change. US Secretary of State John Kerry said at a briefing in New Delhi that the working group would "intensify efforts to find ways that we can bilaterally join together to address the urgency …
Cutting power plant emissions and protecting coastlines on the agenda in landmark speech by president Barack Obama is due to map out America's first climate change strategy on Tuesday, cutting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, shoring up coastlines against flooding and sea level rise, and helping advance an international …
Al Gore's statement on the US President Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change at Georgetown University on 25 June 2013. This was a terrific and historic speech, by far the best address on climate by any president ever. I applaud the new measures announced by President Barack Obama this afternoon …
New Delhi : As US secretary of state John Kerry arrived here to participate in the fourth annual US-India Strategic Dialogue, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) announced that it will partner with US-based institutional investor Northern Lights Capital Group to facilitate a $100-million investment in India’s clean energy …
Barack Obama will unveil a national climate change plan on Tuesday, offering the first real glimpse of how he intends to make good on one of the most stirring promises of his inaugural address. In a video posted on the White House web site on Saturday, the U.S. President reiterated …
Aviation regulator DGCA would set up an environment task force to monitor and check carbon emissions by aircraft operating in the country and ask all Indian carriers to set up similar cells of their own. The decision of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) comes at a time when …
President Obama's Berlin speech Wednesday heightened anticipation that he will soon announce a new policy plan on climate change. "For the sake of future generations, our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate before it is too late," Obama said in his remarks at the …
If you know that a sector has arrived when it makes for trade wars between countries, then solar energy clearly has. Last year, the US imposed anti-dumping duties on Chinese imports of solar panels; now the EU has proposed the same. The Chinese have in turn threatened that they will …
Severe weather of violent thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes hit parts of the upper Midwest on Wednesday, causing flights to be canceled and baseball games to be postponed in Chicago, the nation's third-largest city. Some 12 million people in four states live in the area at high risk of storms that …
An agricultural dragnet has found no cases of unapproved genetically engineered wheat outside of a 123-acre field in Oregon after two months of an ongoing investigation, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday. The discovery of the wheat, not approved for cultivation anywhere in the world, shook the global market …
The Government has decided that 75 per cent of 750 MW solar projects, to be offered under the second phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, will be built with local content. This has put to rest all uncertainties pertaining to the use of local content in the Mission because …
