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. …
Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are toxic chemicals that resist degradation and bioaccumulate. Despite attempts to limit the use and distribution of these chemicals, they are still widely detected in the environment. Schecter et al. determined the presence of POP contamination of food in the United States by measuring perfluorinated compounds …
In 2001, then-Surgeon General David Satcher issued a landmark statement that obesity had reached epidemic proportions in America. The country began to react, but slowly. As the F as in Fat report has documented over the previous six years, efforts to address the skyrocketing rise of obesity rates and obesity-related …
This analysis provides an assessment of net reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to total U.S. emissions that could be achieved by pollution reduction proposals currently under consideration in the 111th Congress. To summarize, this analysis depicts reductions within the cap and any additional measures that will achieve emissions …
As defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, adaptation includes a set of actions to moderate harm or exploit beneficial opportunities in response to climate change. To date, little research has addressed public policy options to frame the nation
Counting the Gigatonnes: Building Trust in Greenhouse Gas Inventories from the United States and China, outlines the systems already in place in both countries that can ensure accurate and timely data on greenhouse gas emissions. The report concludes that the US and China are committed to making significant progress in …
There is an increasing shift towards globalisation not only of the world economies but also of the world's legal systems. Broadening of locus standi in South Africa has deconstructed the fears that informed the conservative common law approach to the issue of locus standi or standing, with its roots in …
This new paper by Donald A. Brown from Penn State University compares science and ethics of the Gulf Deepwater Horizon with the Climate Change. It argues that although the Gulf spill is a huge disaster, climate change is a huge moral failure leading to a worse environmental disaster. Climate change …
The two primary motivations for energy policy in the United States are promoting energy security and combating climate change. Because the electricity sector accounts for roughly 40 percent of national carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, renewable sources of electricity could be particularly important for addressing this latter concern about climate change. …
Louisiana: US government and BP officials are warning that the blown-out oil well causing an environmental disaster on the Gulf Coast may not be stopped until August as the company begins preparations on a new attempt to capture the leaking crude. BP Plc will use undersea robots to begin cutting …
Conflicts of interest, situations where personal or organizational considerations have compromised or biased professional judgment and objectivity, can weaken scientific credibility, pose threats to biodiversity and ecosystem services, and are often precursors to corruption. Here, we review historical and international examples of conflicts of interest and their impacts on global …
This policy brief explains how to use tariff relief to reward developing countries that meet internationally agreed upon milestones for emission reductions as well as to incentivize such countries to go beyond these milestones. It also explains how the U.S. can manage the economic effects from more open trade to …
The feral domestic cat (Felis catus) is a predatory invasive species with documented negative effects on native wildlife. The issue of appropriate and acceptable feral cat management is a matter of contentious debate in cities and states across the United States due to concerns for wildlife conservation, cat welfare, and …
BP moves to a new containment plan called the Lower Marine Riser Package Cap to siphon off the leaking oil to the surface, carried by remotely operated robots on the ocean floor : The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is probably "the biggest environmental disaster" that the United …
Joseph murray, a Nobel laureate and the first person to perform a successful human kidney transplant, said in 1954, “Scientists agree whenever a cure for aids is found, it will be through animal research.” Murray may or may not be right. More than 85 hiv vaccines have shown promise in …
In the dark, never-ending abyss of the sea live myriad creatures: small marine animals called macrofauna which include snails, clams, worms and “creatures no bigger than a pencil eraser” to crabs, starfish and sea urchins. Craig McClain from the National Evolutionary and Synthesis Center with James Barry from the Monterey …
scientists from the International Business Machine Corp’s (ibm) and Stanford University in the US announced the discovery of plastics that could be biodegradable, biocompatible and completely recyclable. Organic catalysis is the new mantra in what is seen as a complete shift towards green polymer chemistry. Three ingredients make plastic: a …
The world’s heaviest and largest dog was a Saint Bernard. Named Benedictine, it measured nearly 275 cms in length and weighed 162 kgs. The world’s smallest breed of dog is named after the state of Chihuahua in Mexico. The dogs look as nervous as their tiny stature might make them …
Book>> The Relentless Revolution • by Joyce Appleby • Norton and Norton • Rs 1,300 When the world economic crisis was at its worst, Alan Greenspan, former head of the US Federal Reserve described it as a “tsunami”. A few economists likened it to a storm. The parallels with weather …
