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. …
Polls show 53.7% voted against the contentious measure that was seen as a testbed case for the US as a whole A Californian ballot proposing the labelling of genetically modified ingredients in food products has been rejected by the state's voters . With 95% of votes counted, the polls showed …
Shock waves from earthquakes in the eastern United States can travel much farther and cause damage over larger areas than previously thought, the U.S. Geological Survey said on Tuesday in a study of the strong quake that hit Virginia last year. The 5.8 magnitude quake triggered landslides at distances four …
New Delhi A week ahead of the next meeting of the WHO framework convention on tobacco control (FCTC), the tobacco farmers world over have sought representation in the meeting scheduled for discussing the issue of shifting to alternative crop because of health hazards due to rising tobacco consumption. Articles 17 …
The SC must reject the biased interim report of the committee on GE crops While hearing two writ petitions opposing genetic engineering technology in agriculture, the Supreme Court constituted a technical expert committee with six members and seven terms of reference. It asked the committee to hear interested parties and …
The impact of projected 21st century climate conditions on streamflow in the Upper Colorado River Basin was estimated using a multi-model ensemble approach wherein the downscaled outputs of 112 future climate projections from 16 global climate models (GCMs) were used to drive a macroscale hydrology model. By the middle of …
Mad Rush For Refuelling Triggers Fights, Mile-Long Queues At Petrol Pumps In NY Union (New Jersey): Widespread gas shortages stirred fears among residents and disrupted some rescue and emergency services on Thursday as the New York region struggled to return to a semblance of normalcy after being ravaged by Hurricane …
New York: While people living north of New York’s Times Square were largely spared from the rising waters and power outages that slammed Lower Manhattan on Monday, they are now dealing with a different kind of flood: Guests. Refugees from “Blackout City,” the portion of Manhattan that has been without …
Deaths in the United States and Canada blamed on Sandy, the mega-storm that tore across the U.S. East Coast this week, rose to at least 102 on Friday. In New York City, 40 people have been found dead, half of them on Staten Island, the borough that lies across New …
A German cargo shipper targeted last year by Somali pirates will pay a $1.2 million penalty and be barred from U.S. ports for five years as punishment for oil-dumping violations off the Alaska coast and elsewhere in the open ocean, U.S. federal officials said on Friday. Nimmrich & Prahm Bereederung …
Climate change was catapulted to the forefront of the U.S. general election on Thursday after New York's independent mayor threw his weight behind Democratic President Barack Obama, citing his stance on climate change. After refusing to endorse any presidential candidate in the last election in 2008, New York City Mayor …
Pennsylvania officials reported incomplete test results that omitted data on some toxic metals that were found in drinking water taken from a private well near a natural gas drilling site, according to legal documents released this week. The documents were part of a lawsuit claiming that natural gas extraction through …
The Navy, Coast Guard and Tamil Nadu Police are continuing their search for five crew members of cargo ship, MT Pratibha Cauvery, who went missing in the sea due to cyclonic storm Nilam on Wednesday. There is, however, no clarity over the sequence of events that prompted them to abandon …
London: The onset of puberty has fallen by more than five years in girls and experts believe junk food is to be blamed for this ‘ticking timebomb’. Some girls are only six or seven when they have to cope with their first period and a recent US study has found …
China said on Thursday that it would launch anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into imported European Union solar-grade polysilicon, in the latest instance of tit-for-tat trade tensions in the global solar industry. The move comes as the EU's executive body mulls duties targeting Chinese solar producers, a probe launched in September …
The EU plant health regime is no longer fit for purpose in preventing fatal plant diseases, says the Forestry Commission The UK's forests are under "unprecedented threat" from foreign pests and diseases, according to the government department responsible for the protection of forests and woodlands. The ash dieback fungus found …
Monday's mammoth storm that caused severe flooding, damage and fatalities to the eastern U.S. will raise pressure on Congress and the next president to address the impacts of climate change as the price tag for extreme weather disasters escalates. Hurricane Sandy devastated the east coast of the United States, claiming …
Tackling the global climate crisis could reap significant economic benefits for both developed and developing countries, according to a new report. The impacts of climate change and a carbon-intensive economy cost the world around US$1.2 trillion a year — 1.6 per cent of the total global GDP (gross domestic product), …
Superstorm Sandy could cost up to $US45 billion ($44 billion) in damage and lost production after it swept across America's east coast, wreaking far more havoc than hurricane Irene last year, economists say. While it will take weeks to count the cost, Sandy is likely to be among the most …
