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. …
Google Inc has thrown its financial clout behind an ambitious $5 billion proposed electric transmission line intended to spark investment in new wind farms off the heavily populated US East Coast. The move, which is a gamble as no offshore wind installations have yet been built in the United States, …
US doctors have begun treating the first patient to receive human embryonic stem cells, but details of the landmark clinical trial are being kept confidential, Geron Corp said on Monday. Geron has the first US Food and Drug Administration licence to use stem cells to treat people, in this case …
The United Nations climate change talks in Tianjin, China, witnessed some progress on the issue of financing of climate change mitigation and adaptation but there is a significant gap between the level of funding required and what has been committed so far. Fast-paced action on climate financing, including identification of …
Corn that is genetically modified to resist pests benefits neighboring crops as well, U.S. researchers said Thursday. They said Midwestern states that planted corn genetically modified to make a toxin that fights off European corn borer moths has dramatically cut the $1 billion in annual losses from the pest, even …
Elisabeth Rosenthal TARGET:The issue began during the Iraq war. A convoy of fuel tankers, in Helmand, Kabul, goes up in flames after a car bomb attack. With insurgents increasingly attacking the U.S. fuel supply convoys that lumber across the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan, the military is pushing aggressively to develop, …
Transgenic maize engineered to express insecticidal proteins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) has become widely adopted in U.S. agriculture. In 2009, Bt maize was planted on more than 22.2 million hectares, constituting 63% of the U.S. crop. Using statistical analysis of per capita growth rate estimates, we found that …
Genetically engineered crops represent one of the most controversial and rapidly adopted technologies in the history of agriculture. First grown commercially in 1996, transgenic crops covered 135 million hectares (ha) in 25 countries during 2009. To reduce reliance on insecticide sprays, corn and cotton have been genetically engineered to make …
Manufacturers of products that claim to be environmentally friendly will face tighter rules on how they are advertised to consumers under changes proposed Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission. The commission
The United States and EU said on Wednesday that U.N. climate talks were making less progress than hoped due to rifts over rising economies' emission goals, while China pushed back and put the onus on rich nations. Negotiators from 177 governments are meeting this week in the northern Chinese city …
The White House in the spring blocked release of government worst-case estimates of the amount of oil spewing from BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico, the presidential commission looking into the accident said on Wednesday. The commission said government officials told its staff that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric …
WASHINGTON, 5 OCT: American companies are unlikely to engage in nuclear trade with India till it becomes a signatory to an international convention on nuclear damage that among its provisions puts the onus of compensation on the state in case of an accident, a Congressional report has said. “US firms …
Too Many Cases Pending in India, AG Tells GoM Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The attorney general has recommended to the Union government not to pursue the Bhopal gas tragedy case in US courts while several cases remain pending in various Indian courts. The attorney general gave the advice …
THE Permian Basin, named for the geological era in which much of it was formed, stretches across hundreds of miles of eastern New Mexico and western Texas, capped by the deceptively modest-looking cities of Midland and Odessa. Much of the wealth in Texas came from oil and gas trapped here, …
Part of the reason for the high percentage of premature deaths is that India and China are densely populated and have high concentration of ammonia, which reacts with nitrogen and sulphur oxides emitted by airplanes amount of fuel burned by Aircraf Boston, Sept. 30: Aircraft flying above North America and …
In 2010 Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), again devastated honey bee colonies in the USA, indicating that the problem is neither diminishing nor has it been resolved. Many CCD investigations, using sensitive genome-based methods, have found small RNA bee viruses and the microsporidia, Nosema apis and N. ceranae in healthy and …
Few studies have quantified regional variation in tree mortality, or explored whether species compositional changes or within-species variation are responsible for regional patterns, despite the fact that mortality has direct effects on the dynamics of woody biomass, species composition, stand structure, wood production and forest response to climate change. Using …
