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. …
Lanco Infratech is known to be in talks with international energy majors like AES of United States and Gaz de France to sell a part of its power business. The company had recently said it planned to sell a minority stake in its power business and raise $600-$750 million (Rs …
A court in Ecuador has rejected an order by arbitrators that an $18 billion pollution ruling against Chevron should be frozen, but the judges referred an appeal by the U.S. oil company to the country's Supreme Court. A year after the landmark decision against Chevron, a panel working for The …
Wildlife officials don't usually base hunting policies on how the public feels about an animal. But the black bear seems to be different. The revered king of the forest has bounced back from near-extinction to being a nuisance in some areas. Some states are trying to figure out if residents …
The United States and Mexico reached agreement on Monday on regulating oil and gas development along their maritime border in the Gulf of Mexico, ending years of negotiations and potentially opening more than a million acres to deepwater drilling. The agreement, if ratified by Mexican and American lawmakers, would for …
Nearly two years after the oil rig explosion that killed 11 people and spilled millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the myriad plaintiffs suing BP and other companies over the disaster are about to get their day in court. With the start of the high-profile …
Russia may prohibit its airlines from carbon emission trading in protest against a European Union law it says is unfair, state carrier Aeroflot said on Monday. A group of nations will gather in Moscow this week to debate possible retaliation to the law, which raises the risk of a trade …
European farmers are likely to fall behind in the competitive world grain market as EU consumer hostility to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) drives away research and prevents cultivation of high-yield and pest-resistant crops. The European Union has approved only one GMO grain for cultivation - Monsanto's insect-resistant MON810 maize (corn). …
Nations opposing a European Union law that forces all airlines to pay for their carbon emissions will next week debate an array of counter-measures, a draft agenda seen by Reuters on Friday showed, raising the risk of an aviation trade war. The agenda also refers to the formal dispute procedure …
Smoke from burning forests and grasslands kills on average 339,000 people a year world-wide, an international research team said Sunday in the first systematic global health study of air pollution from wildfires. Every year, accidental and deliberate wildfires burn an area that, taken together, is larger than India. The dense …
India produces about 26 million g of organic tea and 80 per cent of this is exported to Germany, the UK and the US. Nuremberg (Germany), Feb. 19: The Tea Board has set up three model farms in India on 100 acres each to develop a standard package for cultivation …
Four people skiing and snowboarding in out-of-bounds areas were killed in avalanches in two separate areas of Washington on Sunday. Near the Stevens Pass ski area, about 70 miles east of Seattle in the Cascade Range, three men were killed after an avalanche enveloped their group and two other groups, …
Last year, gray wolves in Idaho and Montana were removed from the Endangered Species List and placed under state management plans. In Wyoming, they remain federally protected, but only until the last details of a deal between the state and the Department of the Interior can be worked out. The …
Royal Dutch Shell's bid to drill in the Arctic this summer took another step forward on Friday when the U.S. Interior Department approved its oil spill response plan for the Chukchi Sea. Shell's response plan would allow the company to rapidly contain a massive spill in the challenging Arctic environment, …
The House of Representatives passed an energy bill on Thursday that would wrest control of a permit for the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline away from President Barack Obama, who has put the project on hold. The bill, part of a broader House Republican effort to fund highways and infrastructure …
An arbitration panel reinforced an order that Ecuador's government seek to suspend an $18 billion court award against U.S. oil company Chevron Corp over pollution in the South American country's rainforest. A year after its original order, the three-person panel, working under The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration, told the …
ConocoPhillips' 239,400 barrel per day (bpd) Westlake, Louisiana refinery reported a plant malfunction that triggered flaring on Friday, according to a notice the refinery filed with federal pollution regualtors. A notice filed with the U.S. National Response Center did not identify the plant which sustained the malfunction. Sulfur dioxide was …
The U.S. has roped in Bangladesh and four other nations under a new six-country global initiative to combat climate change, protect health, improve agricultural productivity and strengthen energy security. Announcing the ‘Climate and Clean Air Coalition’ here, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the world has not done enough to …
China, the United States and two dozen other countries are looking at coordinated retaliation — including putting pressure on European airlines and other industries — if Europe tries to enforce a law requiring airlines to pay for their greenhouse gas emissions. The system, the European Union’s boldest initiative on climate …
U.S. officials have approved an oil-spill plan for Royal Dutch Shell PLC as the company looks to begin drilling in the Arctic, saying Friday that Shell has demonstrated its ability to respond to potential spills in icy waters despite protests from environmental groups. The approval, granted by the U.S. Interior …
Faulting the world for not doing enough to curb climate change, the United States on Thursday announced the formation of a six-nation coalition including Bangladesh to cut short-lived pollutants that speed up warming and harm health. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the coalition of the US, Bangladesh, Canada, Mexico, …
