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. …
Polar bear cubs forced to swim long distances with their mothers as their icy Arctic habitat melts appear to have a higher mortality rate than cubs that didn't have to swim as far, a new study reports. Polar bears hunt, feed and give birth on ice or on land, and …
The Coordinator for Non-Military US Assistance to Pakistan, Robin Raphel, has said the United States is playing the role of a catalyst to help Pakistan cope with the ongoing energy crisis. In an exclusive interview to Daily Times, the US ambassador revealed that the US was contributing an initial amount …
European carmakers are at last gaining traction in their decades-long campaign to persuade American car buyers to switch from petrol to diesel. Volkswagen boosted sales of diesel models 46.2 per cent last month compared with a year earlier, more than double the increase in its overall US sales, the German …
The 5,800 acres he farms near Lubbock, Texas, are half irrigated and half at the mercy of the clouds. And the past nine months have been the driest in Texas on record. The Lone Star state is at the epicentre of a once-in-a-generation drought stretching from Arizona to Florida. The …
On Tuesday, a committee that advises the Food and Drug Administration is to consider whether the first of those drugs can overcome safety concerns and reach the market. The outcome of the F.D.A. review is far from certain. The drug, dapagliflozin, might raise the risk of breast and bladder cancer, …
Top global miner BHP Billiton will buy U.S. Petrohawk Energy Corp for $12.1 billion in cash, ramping up its bets on the booming but environmentally controversial shale gas industry. At $38.75 a share, BHP is offering a 65 percent premium to Petrohawk's closing stock price on Thursday. The deal follows …
Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday signed energy legislation to encourage more natural gas production and require energy companies to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, a drilling method that has raised environmental concerns. With the signing, Texas becomes the first state to require energy companies to disclose chemicals used …
Exxon Mobil said on Friday that a pipeline that failed two weeks ago, leaking oil into the Yellowstone River, routinely transported a heavier and more toxic form of crude than the company and federal regulators initially acknowledged. The Silvertip pipeline carries so-called tar sands crude from Alberta, Canada, as do …
An oppressive and potentially deadly summertime mix of sizzling temperatures and high humidity baked a large swath of the country again on Sunday, pushing afternoon heat indexes in dozens of cities to dangerous levels. Forecasters warned the heatwave would persist through much of the coming week and cautioned residents in …
Tropical Storm Bret formed north of the Bahamas on Sunday and was expected to drench the northernmost islands before curving out into the open Atlantic, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. Bret was not expected to strengthen into a hurricane, nor was it forecast to threaten the U.S. …
Germany and Italy are expected to oppose a second release of emergency oil reserves by the International Energy Agency, which needs the backing of all 28 of its members if it is to pour more oil on a volatile crude market. The IEA is expected to confer with its member …
BHP Billiton has made another big bet on energy in the US, announcing an agreement to buy Petrohawk, an independent oil and gas company, for $12.1bn in cash. In its biggest acquisition to date, the Anglo-Australian mining group said on Thursday it had agreed to pay $38.75 a share for …
New rules to cut the greenhouse gas emissions of the global shipping fleet have finally been agreed in a move politicians hailed as a world first. New cargo and container ships will have to be built to technical standards that will make them more energy efficient, under a measure approved …
HealthDirty truth If you stop your children from eating mud, read this. Craving for earth—geophagy—can be one of the natural ways to protect stomach against pathogens. After studying 480 reports and analysing theories that geophagy is driven by hunger and for nutrients in the soil like iron, zinc or calcium …
IT IS standard practice in most Indian hospitals to recommend a physical regime consisting of yoga and gentle exercises to patients undergoing cancer treatment. There has been an understanding that yoga improves physical function and emotional wellbeing as chemotherapy—the commonly used treatment for cancer—causes fatigue and weakens the immune system. …
REMOVAL of organic toxins from groundwater requires chemical additives, which are expensive and environmentally hazardous. Now researchers at the University of Kentucky in the UK have developed a novel technique to break down such contaminants. The new purification system uses two highly porous membranes to generate purifying hydroxyl radicals. Till …
MOSQUITOES rely on chemical cues such as smell of human breath, sweat and skin to get to a potential prey. This olfactory pathway has spawned several research papers. The latest comes from scientists led by Anandasankar Ray from the University of California, USA. They have discovered chemicals which can prevent …
