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. …
China and the United States took a major step in the fight against climate change over the weekend, but what was termed a "breakthrough" might not do much in the longer term to lock in legally binding carbon emission cuts from the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases. Still, …
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced a $20 billion plan to prepare for rising sea levels and hotter summers expected as a result of climate change in the coming decades. The ambitious proposal - which could become the benchmark for other cities dealing with climate change - could …
China led a rise in global carbon dioxide emissions to a record high in 2012, more than offsetting falls in the United States and Europe, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Monday. Worldwide CO2 emissions rose by 1.4 percent to 31.6 billion tons, according to estimates from the Paris-based …
Monsanto Co. on Monday won another round in a legal battle with U.S. organic growers as an appeals court threw out the growers' efforts to stop the company from suing farmers if traces of its patented biotech genes are found in crops. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal …
Climate change is likely to worsen floods on rivers such as the Ganges, the Nile and the Amazon this century while a few, including the now-inundated Danube, may become less prone, a Japanese-led scientific study said on Sunday. The findings will go some way to help countries prepare for deluges …
On a breezy day in October last year the governor of Kansas, Sam Brownback, took a tour of his state’s flourishing oil- and gas-exploration industry. But as the bus travelled across the open plains it was difficult not to notice a new phenomenon in Kansan energy: wind turbines. Lots of …
American wheat farmers and a food safety advocacy group filed a lawsuit Thursday against biotech seed developer Monsanto Co, accusing the company of failing to protect the U.S. wheat market from contamination by its unauthorized wheat. The petition, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, …
Some 52,000 community water systems and 21,400 not-for-profit non-community water systems across the US will require approximately $384.2 billion of infrastructure investment through 2030 in order to assure the provision of safe drinking water to 297 million Americans, according to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) "Drinking Water Infrastructure Needs Survey …
The United States, China and the European Union have had initial discussions on a possible "global" agreement to resolve solar energy disputes, a senior US official said on Thursday. "There have been some initial discussions with both the European market and China about how to deal with this on a …
Chief minister AkhileshYadav's initiative towards setting up a waste-to-energy power plant in the state started taking shape on Wednesday when a delegation from a US-based company gave a presentation to urban development minister Azam Khan and senior officials. The power point presentation put forth the various techniques that the company …
India More Reliable Than Pak: Lawmaker Washington: A Texas Congressman urged Washington to dump a treacherous Pakistan, be wary of a reckless China, and forge strong energy and security-based ties with New Delhi, as a group of seven Indian MPs representing six states and five political parties began an upbeat …
MIT researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist, have made a breakthrough that may lead to development of artificial livers for transplantation. The scientists’ attempts at exploiting the ability of the liver to grow in the hope of producing artificial liver tissue for transplantation have repeatedly been stymied. Mature liver cells, known …
LUCKNOW: Nearly a decade after it shelved the ambitious waste-to-energy power plant in Lucknow, the UP government is again toying with the idea to revive the project, this time with the help of a US-based company. A delegation of the United States-based renewable energy company would be arriving in the …
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN once sang about “going on the town now looking for easy money”. As easy money goes, it is hard to beat farm subsidies. Handouts for American farmers were a tasty $256 billion between 1995 and 2012. The fattest subsidies went to the richest farmers. According to a study …
The world has an astonishing chance to take a billion people out of extreme poverty by 2030. In September 2000 the heads of 147 governments pledged that they would halve the proportion of people on the Earth living in the direst poverty by 2015, using the poverty rate in 1990 …
Until around 2020, China is set to have to highest growth rate among major countries, but could be then surpassed by India, it further said Indian Flag image via Shutterstock. India has probably surpassed Japan to become the world's third largest economy after the US and China, Paris-based think-tank OECD …
A candidate drug, which acts in a novel way, has shown promising results in the laboratory against advanced prostate cancer that was insensitive to reduced levels of male sex hormones, according to a paper published in Nature Communications journal. Prostate cancers initially tend to be sensitive to male sex hormones, …
Protection against H1N1 and H5N1 in mice and ferrets is expected to last for three to six months.Precious time lost in developing an effective vaccine against influenza A viruses that jump from animals to humans and spread across the world causing a pandemic is quite close to becoming history. According …
Wal-Mart has been hit with $110 million in U.S. federal and State fines after pleading guilty to criminal charges of mishandling hazardous waste and pesticides at its retail stores. The world’s largest retailer was fined for dumping hazardous chemicals in city trash bins and sewer systems in cases filed by …
Marches and rallies against seed giant Monsanto were held across the U.S. and in dozens of other countries Saturday. “March Against Monsanto” protesters say they want to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it. Marches were planned for more than …
