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. …
China has overtaken the United States as the world's largest energy consumer, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday. China immediately questioned the report, claiming its calculations were
Oil spillBP can keep its oil well in the Gulf of Mexico shut for another 24 hours after agreeing to monitor a leak through the seafloor and take other precautions, National Incident Commander Thad Allen said. In addition to the seep detected last night, there
US Govt Orders Firm To Submit Emergency Plan New Orleans: The US government ordered BP to submit an emergency plan for reopening its capped Gulf of Mexico oil well after experts detected seepage from the surrounding seabed. Tensions emerged as the government
John Vidal Last month was the hottest June ever recorded worldwide and the fourth consecutive month that the combined global land and sea temperature records have been broken, according to the U.S. government's climate data centre. The figures released on Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) suggest …
Narayan Lakshman Getting back its wings:An oiled pelican being cleaned at the Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation Center in Gulfport, Mississippi on Monday. Washington: BP has announced that a critical test on the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico will proceed as planned after a hydraulic leak that had delayed …
THE US Export-Import Bank has given preliminary approval to loan guarantee of $600 million to suppliers for Reliance Power's coal-fired project at Sasan in Madhya Pradesh after the company promised to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Last month, the Exim Bank refused to provide loan guarantee on R-Power's proposed purchase of …
BP Plc delayed testing a new cap placed over its leaking Gulf of Mexico oil well to give scientists more time to study the procedure used to measure pressure levels. BP and government officials said they still intend to conduct the assessment, which BP and the Obama Administration will use …
The US government must make the Department of Defense a key customer for energy technologies and make greenhouse-gas reductions a public good, say John Alic, Daniel Sarewitz, Charles Weiss and William Bonvillian.
For climate experts plants are just sources of carbon credits. This is unfair, for human beings and plants connect in many other ways. The book uncovers these linkages. It provides information on how plants can improve the environment, which is steadily deteriorating from pollutants. The focus is on indoor environment …
Images of people setting fire to water from faucets in their homes sets the tone for a new documentary purporting to expose the hazards of onshore natural gas drilling. Gasland has fuelled the debate over the extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, which involves blasting millions of litres of water, …
In a field, a sinewy man bends at the waist, slicing stalks of wheat with a small machete. A mother gently places her infant son, slung in a piece of blue fabric, onto a vegetable scale housed in a makeshift clinic. Two girls walk to school. These images are interspersed …
WANT to arm yourself with convincing arguments against dams? Get drawn by the persuasion of canoeists and conser - vationists. Check out this flash based website that demonstrates how dams impede flow and damage the ecology of river basins. It is created by Hydropower Reform Coalition, an anti-dam lobby founded …
US $1 TRILLION WORTH OF MINERALS Afghanistan is suddenly richThe Pentagon recently announced that Afghanistan is sitting on mineral wealth worth US $1 trillion—about 1,000 times the government’s annual revenue. The untapped mineral deposits, including iron, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium, a key raw material for laptop, cell phone and …
THE US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to terminate use of endosulfan in the US. The decision was taken on June 9 after risk assessments and evaluation of the benefits of the insecticide over the past several years. Data collected showed risks faced by farm workers, exposed through inhalation …
Melvyn Thomas | TNN Surat: While diamonds from controversial mines of Zimbabwe continue to be imported into the country via Dubai and other centres, diamantaires are facing a real worry about the United States (US) — world’s biggest diamond consuming market — banning import of non-approved diamonds. Surat has been …
Conservationists have proposed methods for adapting to climate change that assume species distributions are primarily explained by climate variables. The key idea is to use the understanding of species-climate relationships to map corridors and to identify regions of faunal stability or high species turnover. An alternative approach is to adopt …
