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. …
Negotiations are stuck even as potentially catastrophic climate change-related events are spinning out of control It’s that time of the year again. Climate change talks are heating up, with the next conference of parties scheduled to meet in Durban in November. There is heat but no light. To put it …
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday it will postpone its final rule aimed at slashing air pollution from coal plants for a month, but made it clear it plans to move forward on the regulations. The EPA said it needs the extra time to review 960,000 comments it …
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that the government properly designated millions of acres of national forests as off limits to logging and road construction, overturning a lower court ruling in a long-running battle over preserving the land. For the second time, the U.S. Appeals Court for the 10th …
A U.N. committee has completed the draft design of a fund to help developing countries tackle climate change, paving the way for its launch in 2013, the U.N.'s climate chief said on Friday. Last year, countries agreed to create the 'Green Climate Fund' to channel up to $100 billion a …
California regulators on Thursday approved final regulations for a carbon market that is one of the biggest U.S. responses to climate change. The state believes the market for greenhouse gases, which starts in 2013, will let it address global warming in a low-cost way and become the center of alternative …
U.S. senators from Alaska and Washington state called on Thursday for more investigation of a contagious and lethal fish virus recently detected for the first time in wild Pacific salmon, alarming marine scientists. The infectious salmon anemia virus, previously limited to Atlantic salmon -- including an outbreak that ravaged Chile's …
China, the world’s biggest market for wind power, is bracing for a sharp slowdown in wind turbine installations this year, a move that will spark a “bloodbath” among wind turbine producers, industry executives say. The slowdown has already claimed its first victim, as Germany’s Repower told the Financial Times that …
Enzyme Assisted Aqueous Extraction (EAAE) sounds a mouthful. But this emerging food processing technology, one among many, may help Madhya Pradesh help address a nagging paradox — the state’s a leader in the production of protein-rich soybean but also has the highest rate of malnutrition in the country. Despite the …
The search for the world's first malaria vaccine received a boost with the release of early results from a major clinical trial showing it cut risk by about half in African children. The vaccine known as RTS,S is made by the British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline's lab in Belgium, and is …
A federal court rejected a bid by conservationists for an immediate halt to wolf hunts in Idaho and Montana on Tuesday, but the judges said they would reconsider the request next month. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and others had asked the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for …
The scientist in Canada got the results from a respected lab and held a news conference. The ice and bait man at a fish processor in Sitka, Alaska, heard the news on Facebook. Vardon Tremain read it in the newspaper while working on his trolling boat docked here in Salmon …
The Bloomberg administration is set to commit $2.4 billion in public and private investment to applying new environmental technology to an old problem: the flow of untreated sewage and storm water into New York City’s waterways. City officials announced on Wednesday that the State Department of Environmental Conservation had tentatively …
A nationwide listeria outbreak that has killed 25 people who ate tainted cantaloupe was probably caused by unsanitary conditions in the packing shed of the Colorado farm where the melons were grown, federal officials said Wednesday. Herbert H. Stevens Jr., 84, shown in recovery with his daughter, Jeni Exley, fell …
The World Bank group said it is launching a $60 million equity financing facility to help kick-start small companies that sell goods and services aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions in developing nations. A maximum investment of $10 million will be made in any one company, the International Finance Corporation …
The Obama administration will hold two days of meetings with North Korea next week in a bid to resume a nuclear-disarmament process with Pyongyang that foundered in 2008. The meetings come as North Korean leader Kim Jong Il expressed a renewed interest this week in negotiating with the U.S. and …
Japan is reconsidering plans to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 25% by 2020 due to a rethinking of its energy future, and the country is worried that it is spending too much on carbon-credit programs, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Japan currently plans to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 25% …
Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture and natural resources. Today, approximately a billion people are chronically malnourished while our agricultural systems are concurrently degrading land, water, biodiversity and climate on a global scale. To meet the world’s future food security and sustainability needs, food production must …
Drug maker Lupin has received final approval from the US health regulator to market a generic version of UCB’s Keppra Oral Solution, an anti-epilepsy drug, in the American market. The company’s subsidiary, Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc, has received final approval for its Levetiracetam Oral Solution in the strength of 100mg/ml from …
The U.S. Senate unanimously approved a pipeline safety bill on Monday that would require strength-testing of old pipes and hike fines for safety violations after a series of accidents and explosions. The legislation was sparked by an explosion a year ago in San Bruno, California, on a line owned by …
A Russian Soyuz rocket will blast off from French Guiana on Thursday in a new East-West partnership designed to redraw commercial competition in space. The scheduled lift-off is the first time that Soyuz, which first flew in 1966 and traces its roots back even further to the earliest Cold War …
