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. …
Even as an evacuation order prompted thousands of people to begin flowing out of this eastern Arizona town on Tuesday afternoon, a hardy few were hunkering down as the Wallow Fire
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency raised new concerns about TransCanada Corp's proposed $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline that would bring oil sands crude from Canada to refineries in Texas. In a letter to the State Department, the EPA cited two small leaks on an existing Keystone line last month as …
Small island states, at risk from rising seas due to climate change, hinted on Tuesday at a compromise in order to kick-start U.N. talks on reaching a binding deal to curb global warming. The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), which represents 43 countries, said it could consider pledges on …
Extra-toasty summers are going to be a mainstay if greenhouse gas levels continue to rise and tropical regions may see an irreversible bump in temperatures within the next 20 to 60 years, a new study has warned. In the study to be published in the journal Climate Change, researchers at …
Milan World cereals output is expected to rise to a new record in 2011 due to more planting and improved yields but low stocks are set to keep prices high, the United Nations
India lost much more than it gained at the Cancun climate change meeting in December 2010, admits an internal assessment of the government. Not only did India open itself up formally to international scrutiny of its actions, the government also agreed to let US off the hook and sent the …
TransCanada Corp's 591,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) capacity Keystone pipeline resumed shipping crude oil, one week after being shut by a leak at a Kansas pumping station, the Calgary-based company said in a statement. The restart comes a day after the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said TransCanada could restart …
U.N. talks have run out of time to meet a December 2012 deadline to put in place a binding successor to the Kyoto Protocol on curbing greenhouse gases, the U.N.'s top climate official said Monday. The main aim of the U.N. talks process was to agree a legally binding deal …
The global economy appears headed for several months of sub-par growth, and there is no clear source of strength to lead it back to health. After a week filled with disappointing economic data, the debate is no longer over whether the economy has hit a soft patch but how long …
The U.S. pipeline safety regulator said on Friday that TransCanada Corp cannot restart its Keystone oil pipeline until the agency is satisfied the company has made all required repairs and carried out safety tests. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration issued a so-called corrective action order to TransCanada for …
Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy on Friday by saying he believes that humans are responsible, at least to some extent, for climate change. "I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that," he told a crowd of about 200 at …
Changes in developed country biofuel policy are some of the key recommendations of an intergovernmental organization report to the G20, a group of leading economies. This paper provides in-depth analysis on the relationship between biofuel policy in the US and food price volatility. In addition, it identifies options that are …
Confirming the worst fears of mobile phone users all over the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned that radiation from cell phones is possibly cancerous. It has classified the radio frequency electro-magnetic fields as
Spanish solar energy producer T-Solar has entered into the Indian solar sector by striking technical, operational and financial collaboration with Astonfield Renewable Resources to develop a solar power generation capacity of 200 Mw in four years. Both the companies plan to invest $600 million into the venture which would see …
Sports and energy drinks are being marketed to children and adolescents for a wide variety of inappropriate uses. Sports drinks and energy drinks are significantly different products, and the terms should not be used interchangeably. The primary objectives of this clinical report are to define the ingredients of sports and …
The emergence and rapid global spread of the swine-origin H1N1/09 pandemic influenza A virus in humans underscores the importance of swine populations as reservoirs for genetically diverse influenza viruses with the potential to infect humans. However, despite their significance for animal and human health, relatively little is known about the …
