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. …
Previous studies on per capita personal health care spending have demonstrated wide variation in health care spending across the United States (Martin et al., 2007). With Affordable Care Act coverage expansions through Medicaid and state-level Health Insurance Exchanges on the horizon, it is more important than ever for policy makers …
The purpose of this study is to measure local climate change response capacity and identify the existing gaps between local climate change action plans and land use plans.
Global concerns about climate change and declining resources mean that major companies must do their best to produce and use energy as efficiently as possible. Paper industry as a sector consume approx. 7.5-15% of the total energy consumed by the industrial sector depending upon the region & operational parameters.
The spread of infectious disease via commercial airliner travel is a significant and realistic threat. To shed some light on the feasibility of detecting airborne pathogens, a sensor integration study has been conducted and computational investigations of contaminant transport in an aircraft cabin have been performed. Our study took into …
We present a diagnostic framework to assess changes in flood risk across multiple scales in a river network, under nonstationary conditions or in the absence of historical hydro-meteorological data. The framework combines calibration-free hydrological and hydraulic models with urban development information to demonstrate altered flood risk. Our models utilize hydraulic …
American and Indian corporates upset by the provisions of India’s civil nuclear liability law should take a deep breath and think of two words: Bhopal and BP. Framed by these two totemic references to corporate liability for death and environmental destruction on a colossal scale, the Civil Liability for Nuclear …
This report examines the prospects for substantially reducing the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the U.S. transportation sector, which accounts for 27 percent of the GHG emissions of the entire U.S. economy and 30 percent of the world
The year 2010 offered mixed results concerning global climate policy, with serious setbacks as well as some small victories. In the United States, plans on long-awaited domestic climate legislation were abandoned. In China and India, national climate legislation has made small advances, but expansion of fossil-based long-term infrastructure continues to …
This report documents how efficient land use planning can improve household resilience to rising oil prices by enhancing travel choices; how allowing more people to live closer to job centers can boost employment rates and income levels for low-wage workers while reducing exposure to congestion for all; and how smart …
The history of development of natural resources in Afghanistan has been fraught with international intrigue for several centuries. At the present time a future in Afghanistan without a continuation of multinational competition does not look likely, although the stakes may seem to have increased. A look back into early resource …
Most residential water heaters in the US are electric. Now a solar hot water service in Florida helps to promote solar water heaters. What is interesting about the service is that a local power company is involved.
FIVE people working in a scrap metal shop in Delhi were hospitalised on April 7 following exposure to radioactive radiation. Nuclear experts rushed to the shop in Mayapuri junk market and found a radioactive material, cobalt-60, of the size of a pen cap. Nearby shops also indicated high radiation. It …
DO CHEMICALS used to disinfect water harm our health? Evidence suggests drinking water purified with common disinfectants like chlorine and bromine causes urinary bladder cancer. But it was not clear whether the chemicals can affect health when used to keep swimming pools or bathing water clean, until now. Spanish and …
JUST LIKE the circulatory system in humans, leaf veins are the lifeline of plants. The varied networks of veins in terms of shapes, sizes and thickness decide leaf economics. Scientists have shown vein patterns also control carbon and water absorption in plants. Benjamin Blonder of University of Arizona and his …
In the late 1920s, a student at the University of Iowa wrote a dissertation that led to a breakthrough in calculating devices. The dissertation itself was not any great shakes. It was 10 pages of arcane arithmetic. But it required John Atanasoff, the student, to perform months of calculations on …
Catholic fundamentalists in the US claimed victory in their attempt to cleanse the art world of what they see as offensive use of religious images. On November 30 they forced the National Portrait Gallery in Washington to remove a video on AIDS from an exhibition on sexuality. The Catholic League, …
Scientists claim to have discovered a strain of bacteria that seems to be able to grow on arsenic, a well-known poison. SCIENTISTS have always believed that phosphorus is essential to life. But a recent finding, which was reported in Science Express, the early online version of the reputed journal Science, …
As I write this, some 24 hours are left to finalise the agreement at the 16th Conference of Parties to the climate change convention being held in Cancun. At this moment it seems the predictable deadlock in talks will continue. Like all other global climate meetings, the world remains deeply …
The issue of market access for US agricultural products in India seems to have taken an ugly turn with US Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack sending a strongly-worded letter to his Indian counterpart Sharad Pawar, stating that the bilateral agricultural relationship will be
When the dust settles after the Cancun climate change conference of the United Nations, a careful analysis will find that the adoption of the “Cancun Agreements” may have given the multilateral climate system a shot in the arm, but that the meeting also failed to save the planet from climate …
