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. …
Publishing>> Financial Constraints • USA Come August, the alternative media will lose one of its most popular publications. World Watch magazine produced by the US-based World Watch Institute will cite the usual financial constraints faced by print media in this uncertain economy. The bi-monthly magazine’s oeuvre of articles, essays, news …
poll>> Buildings • US The media often highlights stories of US offices going “green.” But, workers in the US think very poorly of their workplace ambience, says a poll, conducted by software biggie ibm. Less than a third of the 6,500 office workers interviewed said their buildings are environmentally friendly. …
online activity>> Research • US Every person on the planet using micro-blogging site Twitter for a century. For analysts of digital communications this is a neat way of presenting the growth of the digital universe in 2009. Research estimates the digital universe grew by 62 per cent in 2009 to …
The us and Australia have gone back on what little commitment they made to cut carbon emissions. The US climate change bill was stalled in the senate; the Australian government followed suit and deferred its carbon trading scheme for a year. The US climate bill that aimed to cut industrial …
What do US soldiers deployed in Iraq face? Severe mental problems. The dominant one is ptsd. It leads to depression, manic depression, paranoia and other mental health imbalances. The most specific survey I have come across was conducted by the non-profit research institute rand Corporation. Though a bit dated the …
As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, the question remains: how big an environmental disaster is this? Observing the surface slick and the deep-sea leak are of limited use in this situation. A more effective approach might be …
With oil still gushing from an offshore well in the Gulf of Mexico, some scientists and environmentalists worry that US federal agencies have not done enough to gather precious data on the spill, now into its second month.
At the time of this writing, the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has continued unabated for one month. On April 20, 2010, the Mississippi Canyon 252 Deepwater Horizon oil well exploded, killing 11 people. The rig sank on April 22. Since then, we have witnessed a series …
BP Plc told congressional investigators on Tuesday that pressure tests on a drill pipe showed a fundamental mistake hours before the deadly explosion that caused the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, a memo released by two congressmen showed. The memo by Representatives Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak, who were briefed …
Narayan Lakshman Washington: In a pitched battle to shut off the MC252 well that has been spewing vast amounts of oil into the Gulf of Mexico for over a month, British Petroleum announced plans to use a new technical manoeuvre called a
The International Energy Outlook 2010 (IEO2010) presents an assessment by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) of the outlook for international energy markets through 2035. U.S. projections appearing in IEO2010 are consistent with those published in EIA
Could the devastation caused by hurricanes Katrina and Rita have had a silver lining? The sediment washed into New Orleans by the floods accompanying the storms may have blanketed over heavily polluted, lead-laden soil in the city, leading to a decrease in lead levels in the bloodstreams of children across …
2013 May See Prototype Glide Back Using Its Own Engines Washington: The US air force is making a prototype reusable rocket that can fly itself back to the launch site. For this ambitious vision, the Air Force Research Laboratory is rolling out a $33 million pathfinder programme to develop a …
The economist Paul Krugman suggested in his New York Times column earlier this month that the BP oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico could provide the flagging environmental movement with the renewed impetus it so badly needs. The modern movement, he pointed out, gained a great deal of momentum …
In 2007, a paper in the journal Cancer Cell announced that the compound dichloroacetate (DCA) had been found to shrink tumours in rats (S. Bonnet et al. Cancer Cell 11, 37
Vishwanath Kulkarni The recently introduced climate Bill in the US, which seeks to curb emissions by setting up a cap-and-trade mechanism, if passed, will strengthen the post-2012 carbon trade and could open up a new market for the Indian clean development mechanism (CDM) project developers. The American Power Act Bill …
