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. …
Broad-scale studies of climate change effects on freshwater species have focused mainly on temperature, ignoring critical drivers such as flow regime and biotic interactions. We use downscaled outputs from general circulation models coupled with a hydrologic model to forecast the effects of altered flows and increased temperatures on four interacting …
A wave of new Indian and Chinese automobiles are poised to make their debut in the US market in the coming months, but a new study has found that most Americans are not open to the idea of buying a car from companies such as Tata, Mahindra and BYD. Market …
The EU could yet table a proposal that would throw the beleaguered Kyoto Protocol a lifeline and secure the future of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) beyond 2012, government negotiators and observers have told Point Carbon News. Officials from the bloc's member states will in the next few weeks discuss …
A rotten stench hung over a 60-mile stretch of Louisiana's Pearl River as boats trawled through thick layers of hundreds of thousands of dead fish, and sweating workers bent to scoop the carcasses from the water. The fish, including federally protected Gulf sturgeon as well as catfish and flounder, died …
In the world of environmental regulation, where the hope is to write rules that both industry and science can live with, few areas are as contentious as fishing. Especially on the East Coast, fishermen attack scientists as mired in bottomless ignorance about how fish are actually caught. Scientists sometimes describe …
Authorities arrested dozens of people on Sunday protesting outside the White House against a proposed $7 billion oil pipeline they oppose for environmental reasons. Park Police Sergeant David Schlosser said 45 activists were arrested on Sunday for "failure to obey lawful order." They were released after paying a fine, he …
Tropical storm Harvey hit the coast of Central America on Saturday, lashing Belize with strong winds and rain and threatening to dump more on sugar- and coffee-producing areas in the region. The U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said Harvey would probably weaken as it moved inland but could still strafe …
Thousands of opponents of a $7 billion pipeline that would boost U.S. dependence on Canadian oil sands plan to get arrested in protests over the next two weeks that they hope will help persuade the Obama administration to kill the project. The State Department is set to issue a final …
An electricity power plant in Minnesota. The recession has hit demand for electricity, cutting emissions to about 30 per cent below the cap Businesses in the north-eastern US are preparing for a battle over the future of the country’s only working cap-and-trade scheme for controlling carbon dioxide emissions. At the …
Belarus said Friday that it would suspend an agreement to give up its supply of highly enriched uranium, torpedoing, at least temporarily, what was considered a significant victory by the Obama administration in curtailing the spread of dangerous nuclear material. The move comes in response to the latest wave of …
Flash floods in Pittsburgh left three people dead and one person missing on Friday, city and county officials said. According to the Allegheny County medical examiner’s office, two of the dead were children. Two storms crept over the city in the late afternoon and dumped up to three inches of …
The Choctaw and Chickasaw Indian tribes in Oklahoma have filed a federal lawsuit to protect water rights they say derived from long-ago treaties and to prevent exports of water from their traditional homelands without their permission. The dispute had been simmering for more than a year, since the export of …
Making good on a promise, the Interior Department announced Friday that it had scheduled its first sale of offshore oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon disaster last year. But it is changing some of the rules to ensure that leased parcels are actually drilled and …
The United States has provided a Flash Flood Guidance System to Pakistan. The Flash Flood Guidance System for Pakistan has been developed by Hydrologic Research Center (HRC), USA through the collaboration among the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), US National Weather Service, USAID, HRC, USA and PMD. The development of Flash …
The United States has provided support to complete the final phases of two hydroelectric dams in Pakistan: Satpara in Gilgit-Baltistan and Gomal Zam in South Waziristan, the State Department has said. “We are considering doing more in the sector,” said the department’s spokesperson Victoria Nuland, as media reports suggested that …
PARIS: The world population will reach seven billion later this year, with increases in the number of people in Africa offsetting birth rate drops elsewhere, according to a new French study published on Thursday. Looking much further ahead, the National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) predicts a continuing rise in …
A band of showers has offered some relief to parched areas from Kansas to Mississippi, but the historic drought causing billions of dollars in losses in the South is showing no signs of abating soon. Some parts of hard-hit Texas saw more rainfall in one day last week than they …
U.S. emissions of the main greenhouse gas rebounded nearly 4 percent last year as factories ran harder while the economy recovered and as consumers boost air conditioning during the hot summer, the government said on Thursday. U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from the burning of oil, coal and natural gas, which …
The United States has offered North Korea up to $900,000 in emergency flood assistance but has made no decision yet on a broader request for humanitarian food aid for the isolated country, the State Department said on Thursday. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the U.S. offer would likely include …
