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. …
Lending support to the European Union plans to charge airlines for carbon emissions, European Union environment commissioner Janez Potocnik emphasised that the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS) was introduced to help ensure it reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. “The EU will not change …
Stockholm: Three US-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics today for their studies of exploding stars that revealed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said American Saul Perlmutter would share the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award with US-Australian Brian Schmidt …
A federal judge has approved a far-reaching settlement giving Montana until 2014 to clean up polluted streams and lakes in 28 watersheds across the state, capping nearly 15 years of legal battles, officials said on Monday. The deal covers more than 17,000 miles of rivers and streams and 461,000 surface …
China, the world's biggest carbon dioxide emitter, will meet near-term goals to fight climate change but quick economic growth will mean C02 emissions will be higher than previously thought, researchers said on Tuesday. China's quick adoption of clean energy will help it exceed emissions-to-GDP targets agreed last year, but its …
Great Lakes shorelines are becoming clogged by algae blooms fed by agricultural run-off, while invasive mussels decimate the food chain in deeper waters, an environmental group said on Tuesday. The five lakes, which contain one-fifth of the world's fresh water and supply tens of millions of people, may be "veering …
Lending support to demands from developing countries for an extension of the Kyoto Protocol, the European Union Tuesday said it favored the continuation of the global pact that is aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "The Kyoto Protocol should be extended for some time, but I can't say what that …
The Environmental Protection Agency, under pressure from some states, industry and Congress, is expected to ease an air quality rule that would require power plants in 27 states to slash emissions, said people familiar with the matter. The EPA, which made the rule final in July, plans to propose as …
Three U.S.-born researchers shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for discovering that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, a startling result that overturned prevailing theories and sparked new questions for cosmology. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded half the prize of 10 million kronor ($1.4 million) …
Concerns regarding the commercial release of genetically engineered (GE) crops include naturalization, introgression to sexually compatible relatives and the transfer of beneficial traits to native and weedy species through hybridization. To date there have been few documented reports of escape leading some researchers to question the environmental risks of biotech …
A new plan to curb global warming risks becoming a battleground between rich and poor nations and could struggle to get off the ground as negotiators battle over the fate of the ailing Kyoto climate pact. The 1997 Kyoto Protocol covers only emissions from rich nations that produce less than …
India and 25 other nations including the U.S. and China have decided to oppose the European Union's plans to include airlines in its system to limit greenhouse gas emissions, according to a joint declaration. The declaration was released by the Indian government late Friday after a two-day meeting of the …
A summer of record flooding along the Missouri River is leaving a band of destruction—broken roads, drowned farmland and condemned houses—through the nation's midsection. The country's longest river is still flooded near Kansas City, but upstream it has receded into its banks as the Army Corps of Engineers slows its …
Tesla Motors showed off the first production version of the sedan it hopes will make it the first pure mass-market electric car company and said that more than 6,000 advanced orders had already accounted for its capacity next year. The model S sedan was rolled out over the weekend at …
Texas Governor Rick Perry, struggling to regain his status as front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, expressed fresh doubt on Saturday about whether humans are causing climate change. “I still stand by that the science is not settled on man-made global warming,” Perry said while campaigning in the key early …
India said there was no need to get its domestic nuclear liability law vetted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to ensure it complied with the Convention on Supplemental Compensation (CSC). The issue again came to life two months after United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had introduced …
The biggest polluters in the world are known to be the United States of America and China. In 2007, China overtook the United States for the dubious role of world's greatest carbon emitter. However, because the United States is so much wealthier per capita than the People's Republic, individual US …
Even as the Indo-US nuclear deal completes three years on October 8, the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) has emphasised that India should have the right to reprocess imported spent fuel. The DAE said the deal should in no way affect India’s indigenous nuclear programme. The remarks were made by …
The trees spanning many of the mountainsides of western Montana glow an earthy red, like a broadleaf forest at the beginning of autumn. But these trees are not supposed to turn red. They are evergreens, falling victim to beetles that used to be controlled in part by bitterly cold winters. …
Chevron Corp. is enlisting the sun to help drain the sludge-like dregs of crude from an aging oil field. Chevron is keen to extract this thick crude by heating it with steam. Historically, oil companies have used natural gas to create the energy for the steam. Here in Coalinga, the …
Strides Arcolab Ltd. Friday said its unit has received U.S. regulatory approval for a generic version of cancer treating paclitaxel injections, which the Indian company will launch immediately through partner Pfizer Inc. Generic paclitaxel injections have estimated annual U.S. sales of $46 million, the company said in a statement. Strides …
