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. …
Solar power has become an unlovely adolescent. It used to be a sweet little thing, shiny and new and full of promise. One day it will doubtless grow into a solid citizen, quite possibly a person of substance. At the moment it is stuck in between; no longer a child …
Suzanne Goldenberg The United States Navy is set to be both green and mean with the dawning of an new eco-friendly assault force that will mind its carbon footprint as it destroys its enemy. It is to launch
JAMES VICINI By an 8-1 vote, the court struck down the 1999 animal cruelty law for infringing on freespeech protections guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that a US law that makes it a crime to sell videos of animals being …
World wind power resources are abundant, but their utilization could be limited because wind fluctuates rather than providing steady power. We hypothesize that wind power output could be stabilized if wind generators were located in a meteorologically designed configuration and electrically connected. Based on 5 yr of wind data from …
New Delhi: India has clarified its stand on the issue of international scrutiny of climate change actions in a note forwarded by Union environment and forests minister Jairam Ramesh to the on-going meet of 17-country Major Economies Forum at Washington. The Copenhagen Accord, agreed to by India in the last …
Rampant industrialisation will not go down well with the fish-lovers of West Bengal if People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) reports are to be believed. Fish is served at every Bengali festival and the way it is consumed by the community across the world leaves no doubt that …
The draft nuclear liability bill indemnifies the supplier of a nuclear plant and caps the liability of the operator in the event of an accident. The indemnity for suppliers is meant to please multinational plant vendors who wish to be free of liability even for accidents that result from a …
Washington: US president Barack Obama declared the world safer after a 47-nation summit agreed to a four-year deadline to lock down loose nuclear materials to prevent them from falling into militant hands.
Washington: Climate change could push the cost of US allergies and asthma beyond the current $32 billion annual price tag, conservation and health groups reported on Wednesday. A warming planet makes for longer growing seasons that would produce more allergy-provoking pollen in much of the heavily populated eastern two-thirds of …
Fifteen months after moving into a new town, house and job, Michelle Obama is defining her role as first lady by taking on the $600 billion food and beverage industries in a quest to end childhood obesity within a generation. Her lobbying of companies to make products healthier, labels easier …
ANDREW POLLACK Critics of biotechnology, who say the crops may be risky to health and the environment, have issued studies say- ing the use of the crops has resulted in increased reliance on pesticides and has had only a minimal effect on crop yields. The report is described as the …
LIBERAL use of the pesticide Atrazine in the US, China and Australia is affecting the frog population, sexually—males are turning into females. This is in line of a series of extinction blows this group of amphibians has faced over the past decades. The fact that frogs are on the threshold …
WITH the Indian government’s pledge of generating 20 gigawatts of power from solar energy by 2020, about US $20 billion must be invested in developing infrastructure. Everyone wants to know which technology gets the largest piece of the cake. Most agree that as far as solar cells go, the ones …
RUSHATI SARKAR is a final year graduate student in Kolkata. Since her mother succumbed to vaginal cancer, she fears a similar fate. She also abhors the idea of going for invasive tests. Fortunately for her, scientists at the Stanford School of Medicine in USA could not have made their discovery …
HAKAM SINGH, 59, runs a taxi business near the Inter State Bus Terminus at Kashmere Gate in New Delhi. He sits in a one-room office that overlooks the long rows of neatly parked black and yellow cabs. From morning till night, every day, he tends to phone calls while calculating …
Buzz Aldrin knows what it is to be second best. In his most famous photograph, his face is not visible. Taken on the moon, Aldrin’s face is entirely hidden inside his space helmet. But you can see the figure of Neil Armstrong, who took the photograph, reflected in the mirrored …
oil exploration Argentine veterans cry war As diplomatic tensions between the UK and Argentina escalate following oil drilling plan near the Falklands, Argentine war veterans have threatened to invade the South Atlantic archipelago controlled by the UK. A war vets’ association in Bruenos Aires demonstrated in front of the British …
Defusing a long-running trade dispute over American cotton subsidies, the United States and Brazil agreed to begin negotiating a compromise deal that could prevent the implementation of Brazilian trade sanctions on a wide range of US goods and intellectual property. Brazil agreed to hold off on retaliation as a result …
