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. …
With four times the population of the United States, an economy growing 8-9 percent a year and surging energy demand, India's race to become an economic power has propelled it to No. 3 in the list of top carbon polluters. India's greenhouse gas emissions will keep rising as it tries …
Just like our people, every Indian-origin drug will be counted and have its history documented soon. From July, each drug exported will have its packaging adequately laced with bar codes so that at any point during the supply chain or afterwards, if doubts are cast on the quality or efficacy …
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } It is being called a spectacular success - but also a lost opportunity. With floodwaters rising to record levels along the Lower Mississippi river, the system of levees and spillways that protect the low-lying cities of Baton Rouge and New Orleans faced an unprecedented test. …
p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } When humans try to constrain rivers, the results can be calamitous. (Editorial) http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028142.700-mississippi-delta-blues.html
The best way to promote clean energy is to ignore climate change and focus on things like jobs, money and national security. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028145.900-time-to-wave-the-greenspangled-banner.html
The federal government unveiled new fuel economy window stickers on Wednesday, for vehicles starting with the 2013 model year, that for the first time include estimated annual fuel costs and the vehicle
U.S. seafood fraud -- where farmed, imported or endangered fish is sold as wild, local and sustainably-managed -- is hurting efforts to preserve ocean diversity, conservation advocates said on Wednesday. The widespread practice is also hitting consumers who are occasionally sold cheaper or even dangerous products at premium prices, according …
The states of Oregon and Washington agreed on Wednesday to suspend euthanizing sea lions caught feasting on endangered Columbia River salmon until September while the courts consider a lawsuit challenging such killings. The states contend that the California sea lions, which swim 140 miles upstream from the Pacific Ocean to …
South Korea opened a second investigation in days into a report that the U.S. military dumped toxic chemicals near the capital decades ago, a Defense Ministry official said on Wednesday, threatening to trigger an anti-American backlash. Experts have been sent to the former U.S. base in Bucheon, west of Seoul, …
The mission director for United States Agency for International Development, Denise Rollins, has said the agency will continue its assistance in conserving the Sundarban. She was addressing a workshop in Dhaka on Tuesday organised by the government to discuss ways the government, donor partners and the private sector could work …
A series of tornadoes struck central Oklahoma on Tuesday, wiping out homes and businesses and killing at least five people. Officials said the number could rise as search and rescue teams started to fan out across a state already battered by storms over the weekend. A half-mile-wide tornado moving towards …
When the Morganza spillway was opened on May 14, diverting an enormous volume of Mississippi River water to reduce pressure on levees downstream, the thousands of people living in the Atchafalaya River Basin were bracing for the worst. Flood-estimate maps showed water reaching depths of up to 20 feet and …
The sun shone for the first time in days on this devastated city on Tuesday, illuminating the full extent of the damage as rescue workers performed the grim task of searching for survivors and victims in buildings leveled by the United States
A planned modernization of the U.S. national power grid will cost up to $476 billion over the next 20 years but will provide up to $2 trillion in customer benefits over that time, according to industry experts. The so-called "smart grid" will save energy, reduce costs and increase reliability by …
White nose syndrome, a devastating disease that has killed more than one million bats in the Northeast, has been found in Maine, the last New England state to discover it, wildlife officials said on Tuesday. Diminishing populations of bats, an important predator of insects, could have harmful consequences for humans, …
Iran has discovered a deposit of light oil offshore of an estimated in-place reserve of 756 million barrels valued at $13.6 billion, the state TV website reported on Saturday quoting a senior oil official. The oil reserve was found at Khayyam field off the Gulf shore in Hormuzgan province. It …
A monster tornado killed at least 116 people in Joplin, Missouri when it tore through the heart of the small city, ripping the roof off a hospital and destroying thousands of homes and businesses. Weather officials said the tornado that hit the city of 50,000 at dinner time on Sunday …
