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. …
The spectral fingerprints of a big drug company have once again been found all over academic publications. Documents released last week by a watchdog group based in Washington DC raise concerns about the role of writers paid by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in works attributed to psychiatric researchers at a number of …
Luc Montagnier is applying unorthodox ideas to the treatment of autism. With support from the Autism Research Institute (ARI), based in San Diego, California, the Nobel laureate is about to launch a small clinical trial of prolonged antibiotic treatment in children with autism disorders.
BETWA SHARMA CANCUN Maintaining that US’ response to climate change is “disappointing”, environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday appealed to America to better its emission reduction commitment before it was “too late” for the global community. Mr Ramesh expressed deep concern about the US offer to reduce carbon emissions by …
US lobbied with top UN scientist R K Pachauri to prevent appointment of an Iranian scientist to a key position in the Inter-Government Panel on Climate Change, according to a secret US memo leaked by WikiLeaks. However, in a statement to The Guardian, Pachauri asserted he was not influenced by …
INDIA urged the US to show greater ambition on reducing its emission of greenhouse gases. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh described the US offer on emission reduction as
The Cancun meet is deeply divided. Governments are not taking a chance. They do not want to hear the noise of protests as they go about stitching a dirty deal that may not combat climate change or give the poor the right to development This week the world is meeting, …
Far away from the heat and dust of Bhopal, two federal class action lawsuits are under way here in New York City. The Bhopal cases filed in the US have had a circuitous history, not unlike in India. The cases, Sahu vs Union Carbide et al, are civil cases filed …
Two little known chromite mines in Orissa and Karnataka, besides a factory in Gujarat that manufactures critical chemotherapy drugs are among global ''key infrastructures'' which could pose a danger to America
I have reached Cancun few hours’ back to attend the 16th Conference of Parties (CoP-16) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and have been greeted with news that can only be characterised as bad or worse. The most talked about of these is the ‘all-or-nothing’ position …
Current unprecedented declines in biodiversity reduce the ability of ecological communities to provide many fundamental ecosystem services. Here we evaluate evidence that reduced biodiversity affects the transmission of infectious diseases of humans, other animals and plants. In principle, loss of biodiversity could either increase or decrease disease transmission. However, mounting …
Conflict among water users is a part of the history of the American West. They are continuing even today, with modifications in their characteristics, and with more complicated concerns. The conflicts typically involve historical patterns of use by irrigated agriculture on the one hand and increasing needs for urban and …
There is no doubt US President Barack Obama was in India on a business trip. His recent electoral losses weighed heavily with him when he stitched up deals, reportedly worth US $10 billion,that would create about 50,000 jobs back home. In this editorial Sunita Narain looks at the ABCDE of …
Developed nations should begin to deliver the US$ 30 billion fast, which is necessary to build the trust and goodwill for the negotiations at Cancun, which starts in Mexico, India
