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 US may need to build new storm defences as it faces up to more violent weather caused by climate change, the governor of New York has warned. Andrew Cuomo said that New York seemed to be hit by a "100-year flood every two years now" as a result of …
Sandy, the massive story that tore through the U.S. East Coast is being blamed, so far, for the deaths of 64 people, many of whom were killed by falling trees or branches. The storm, at one point extending 1,000 miles in diameter, is making its way north over inland New …
China launched anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into imports of solar-grade polysilicon from the European Union, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday. Solar-grade polysilicon is one of the main materials in solar panels. The investigations will be combined into the ongoing probes into imports of the same product from the …
Climate strongly affects the production of sediment from mountain catchments as well as its transport and deposition within adjacent sedimentary basins. However, identifying climatic influences on basin stratigraphy is complicated by nonlinearities, feedback loops, lag times, buffering and convergence among processes within the sediment routeing system. The Palaeocene/Eocene thermal maximum …
Climate change governance is an increasingly important issue as more organizations are becoming mature in their climate change strategies. While best practices in some areas have emerged, there is little consensus on the most effective way to govern climate change within an organization. This report examines data publicly reported to …
This paper examines the development of the solar PV and wind industries across China, Germany, India, Japan, and the United States from 2001–2011. It takes a unique, comparative approach to track the policies and incentives put in place by these key competitors, documents the state of play in each market, …
17 killed as hurricane makes landfall in New Jersey Up to 17 people were reported dead and millions left without electricity on Tuesday morning, as residents of the U.S. East Coast awoke to confront the extensive destruction wreaked overnight by hurricane Sandy. The hurricane made landfall in New Jersey on …
Residents up and down the battered mid-Atlantic region of the US woke on Tuesday to lingering waters, darkened homes and the daunting task of cleaning up from once-in-a-generation storm surges as Hurricane Sandy made landfall, before continuing inland as a downgraded storm. Power remained out for roughly six million people, …
33 Killed As Storm Lashes East Coast Washington:A broken crane dangled atop a 75-storey highrise, snapped like a twig by high winds. Storm waters swept through streets and rushed into some of the city’s subways and tunnels. Power stations exploded and an elite hospital even lost its backup generators, forcing …
Widespread grid failures expected as tempest threatens to bring high winds, rain. Forecasters warned that the New York City region could face the worst of Hurricane Sandy as it bore down on the US Eastern Coast’s largest cities on Monday, forcing the shutdown of mass transit, schools and financial markets, …
East coast states grind to a halt, major financial markets shut for the first time since 9/11, more than 10,000 flights cancelled, 50 million people across 800-mile swathe at risk. Hurricane Sandy picked up strength and turned towards New York City and other areas on the east coast on Monday, …
Biggest increase in coal usage for 50 years could throw the UK's green ambitions off course Coal is enjoying a renaissance, with the highest consumption of the fuel since the late 1960s. The unexpected development threatens to put climate change targets out of reach – and much of the reason …
Wal-Mart Stores Inc has given global suppliers five years to comply with its environmental rules or risk being pushed off U.S. shelves at the world's largest retailer, expanding a sustainability campaign launched in 2009. The new requirements, announced in China where Wal-Mart has more than 20,000 suppliers, will compel workshops …
The state of Louisiana has asked a federal judge to declare a jury trial to decide on its claim for more than $1 billion from BP Plc to compensate the state for economic losses resulting from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. In a filing on Wednesday, Louisiana Attorney General …
Twenty-one conservation groups sent a letter to the Obama administration today, asking it to withdraw from a recent agreement with the timber industry that, if approved by a federal court, would eliminate protection from 3,887,800 acres of critical habitat for the marbled murrelet until 2018. The federally threatened murrelet — …
For all their disputes, President Obama and Mitt Romney agree that the world is warming and that humans are at least partly to blame. It remains wholly unclear what either of them plans to do about it. Even after a year of record-smashing temperatures, drought and Arctic ice melt, none …
Hurricane Sandy pounded the Bahamas with battering winds and rain on Friday, sweeping over the island chain after killing 21 people across the Caribbean and posing a menacing threat to the U.S. East Coast. Forecasters warned the late-season storm is expected to combine with a polar air mass near the …
Natural gas consumption in China, the world's top energy user, is expected to be 230 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2015, while supply of gas, including imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) and unconventional gas, is expected to exceed 260 bcm, the National Development and Reform Commission said on Friday. The …
Animal rights activists filed a lawsuit on Thursday to try to stop a plan to cull deer in a Washington park, saying it would create a "killing field" in the heart of the U.S. capital. The deer population in Rock Creek Park has soared in recent years, creating a threat …
Biofuels made from algae, promoted by President Barack Obama as a possible way to help wean Americans off foreign oil, cannot be made now on a large scale without using unsustainable amounts of energy, water and fertiliser, the US National Research Council reported on Wednesday. "Faced with today's technology, to …
