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. …
WASHINGTON: The full details of recent experiments that made a deadly flu virus more contagious will be published, probably within a few months, despite recommendations by the United States that some information be kept secret for fear that terrorists could use it to start epidemics. The announcement, made on Friday …
Environmental and clean energy groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday in federal court to block the building of the first nuclear power plant in the United States in more than 30 years. The groups say designs for the plant, in Waynesboro, Ga., do not sufficiently account for safety, environmental or …
Year after year, the world’s nations gather to find ways to reduce carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, with little meaningful progress. Frustrated by this slow pace, the United States and five other countries announced this week a modest but potentially game-changing initiative to cut three other pollutants that also …
A minority partner in BP’s blown-out Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico agreed on Friday to pay $90 million in a settlement with the federal government and gulf states over the disastrous 2010 oil spill. The Justice Department said the agreement was the largest civil penalty ever recovered under …
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 …
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 …
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). …
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 …
China will launch its next manned space mission sometime between June and August, which will attempt to dock with an experimental module launched last year, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday. It will be China's fourth manned space mission since 2003, when astronaut Yang Liwei orbited Earth 14 times, …
The Mississippi River was shut Friday as oil leaked from a tanker barge in the wake of a collision west of New Orleans, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The tanker barge collided with a deck barge at about 2 a.m. local time (0800 GMT), causing the spill from the tanker, …
Federal officials reached the first civil settlement related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill when a division of Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co. agreed Friday to pay $90 million for alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. Under terms of the deal with Mitsui's MOEX Offshore, $45 million will go …
The United Nations chief urged Iran on Friday to implement Security Council resolutions under which Tehran should curb sensitive nuclear activity, but the Islamic state once again signalled it has no intention of doing so. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon also said Iran must cooperate fully with the UN atomic watchdog, …
Farm policy in the United States has crucial implications for world agricultural markets as the us is a major producer and exporter of many agricultural commodities. This study analyses the economic effects of various farm programmes, as enacted in various Farm Acts. The analysis shows that most of the domestic …
The United States said on Thursday it will contribute $12 million to a six-country initiative to fight against climate change by low-cost programs, such as promoting clean cooking stoves. Announcing the initiative, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton acknowledged the plan does not address carbon dioxide emissions, the primary cause of …
CHENNAI: Slamming US and other Western nations for "continuing to cause pollution" despite their commitments, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan today said developing countries, including India, have contributed more to counter the ill effects of climate change. "Every day, although there are agreements and commitments, countries like the US, countries in …
New York City has a plan to keep the subways from flooding. Queensland, Australia, has a plan to keep agricultural lands from drying up. Chicago has a plan to cope with higher temperatures. In the Bay Area, where climate change is expected to cause flooding, shoreline erosion, heat waves, water …
Aims to slow down global temperature rise by 0.5°C. The United States will lead a global campaign to reduce short-lived pollutants that aggravate global warming. In an announcement made on February 16, secretary of state Hillary Clinton announced the formation of a new coalition called Climate and Clean Air Coalition …
HOUSTON: An estimated 5.6 million trees were killed by last year's devastating drought in the US state of Texas, authorities said Wednesday. The estimates also mean that as much as 10 percent of the state's urban forest was wiped out during the drought, according to Texas Forest Service. "This estimate …
The European Union's climate chief said on Tuesday she hopes countries opposed to its rules that charge airlines for carbon emissions take their complaints to the U.N. aviation body, where talks could help to defuse tensions over the strict measures. A group of 26 countries, including the United States, China, …
Some 5.6 million urban shade trees were killed by the record drought that baked Texas last year, the Texas Forest Service reported on Wednesday. Last year was the driest year on record in the state and the second-hottest, according to the National Weather Service. The shade tree die-off represents some …
