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. …
Bank of New York Mellon is processing trades in the fledgling U.S. carbon credit market, as part of a wider effort to boost its traditional business of serving as a trustee for investments and trades. The bank is offering record keeping, processing and other services to buyers and sellers of …
U.S. regulators are likely to approve a higher blend of ethanol in U.S. gasoline shortly, an ethanol producers group and the top U.S. agriculture official each said on Friday, and the new fuel mix could be selling at the pump by next spring. Ethanol companies and corn traders are anxiously …
Some were more than a century old but still sturdy and doing their jobs. Many others were young and willowy, just getting going. Some of them were inscrutable; no one truly knew them or how they got there. But others felt like old friends. They were wonderful for their blissful …
Climate finance or additional resources for developing countries to fight global warming was an integral element of the Copenhagen Accord drawn up at the climate summit in December 2009. But preparatory meetings for the next round of climate negotiations indicate that the sinners of climate change have already begun to …
As part of its proposal to inspect manufacturing facilities in countries from where drugs are imported, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has started discussions with the ministry to send drug inspectors to those countries to verify quality parameters. The immediate trigger seems to be the recent cancellation of …
Refineries, such as BP's in Carson, Calif., must cut their emissions sharply under the California law. Oil refiners are stepping up their campaign to suspend a landmark California environmental law, and proponents of clean technology are writing their own checks to defend the law. Proposition 23, an initiative on the …
A ballot initiative to suspend a milestone California law curbing greenhouse gas emissions is drawing a wave of contributions from out-of-state oil companies, raising concerns among conservationists as it emerges as a test of public support for potentially costly environmental measures during tough economic times. Charles and David Koch, the …
The world's largest solar power plant cleared an important hurdle on Wednesday, laying the groundwork for a dramatic expansion in solar energy generation in the United States and around the world. The proposed $6 billion-plus Blythe, California plant, originally proposed by Chevron Corp. and Solar Millennium AG, won clearance to …
Airlines that reduce carbon emissions would receive billions in government financing to help pay for aircraft upgrades tied to U.S. air traffic modernization under a proposal advanced by aerospace manufacturers on Thursday. The so-called "cash for carbon" plan, unveiled by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) in a report on civil …
NEW DELHI: A senior United States official on Wednesday once again raised Washington's discomfiture with the Nuclear Limited Liability Bill approved by Parliament last month and felt India should harmonise it with international laws.
THE little brown bat seen roosting in the eaves of buildings, crevices in trees and caves across North America could go extinct by 2026. So could several other bat species. Researchers warn that a cold-loving fungus is quietly attacking the bats in hibernation, waking them up in mid-winter. Once they …
RATS and mice can mimic human diseases and hence are important laboratory models to understand causes of ailments as well as the efficacy of drugs. For some unknown reason rats are better candidates to understand certain diseases than mice. For example, explained Aron Geurts, physiology professor at Medical College of …
It was a cold morning in Colorado Springs in the US. Robert Angierre, a magician, walked towards the workshop of a scientist regarded as a disgrace to the scientists’ community. Entering an area cordoned off by an electric fence, he noticed bulbs lit all around in the snow. The bulbs …
During the Great Depression, US Works Progress Administration hit upon a novel way to find employment for out-ofwork scribes and writers. It asked them to document what people in different regions of the US were eating. At the end of the Depression, the agency gave up the project. The material …
The sea evokes awe in most of us. It inspires some to poetry and literature. This artistic imagination is showcased in an exhibition at Washington’s Folger Shakespeare Library. Its subtitle, The Ocean in the English Imagination, 1550- 1750, might suggest a lulling drone of academic solemnity, but its main title, …
HOLLYWOOD bigwigs often like to be seen as eco-savvy. But America’s movie industry has been criticised for skyrocketing energy bills from lights and cameras and tossing movie sets in the dumpsters. www.greenproductionguid e.com helps them to be a little more environment friendly. It is a database of environment-friendly products and …
All governments need to be watched. You never know when one of them will slip in a nasty tax on the quiet or pass a seemingly simple notification that can be the undoing of entire communities or of the environment. That is the nature of the beast. But how vigilant …
