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. …
Plans To Take On West Once Trade Barriers Are Set Up POLICYMAKERS and businesses are bracing to face the threat of higher entry barriers for Indian goods in the Western markets under the garb of environmental protection. Both the US and the EU are discussing additional taxes on carbon-emitting products …
THE climate of distrust between developed and developing countries, that marked the Copenhagen conference, intensified during the first round of climate talks in Bonn. Industrialised countries sought to move away from a two-track negotiating process to a content-based process which would cut across the Kyoto Protocol and Bali tracks of …
In 1986, the International Whaling Commission (IWC) implemented a moratorium on commercial whaling. Many people believed that this would save the whales and end forever the industrial slaughter that had decimated entire species. Not so. A proposal before the IWC could lead to the resumption of commercial whaling as early …
Bhubaneswar: The US ambassador to India, Timothy.J Roemer, Thursday said his country is keen on joint partnership with Orissa in mining, power, and port sectors besides education and business development. Timothy, who met chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday, winding up his two-day visit to the state, said he talked …
China and South Korea have invested heavily in environmental stimulus projects. Other G20 countries need to deliver on their sustainability promises to save both the planet and the economy, says Edward Barbier.
Global steps to battle climate change might have faltered, but philanthropic institutions in the United States have swung into action, more than tripling their support for climate related causes in 2008. Donations jumped from the 2007 total of US$240 million to $897 million in 2008, according to a report from …
Made By Smashing Calcium, Berkelium A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a new element that has long stood as a missing link among the heaviest bits of atomic matter ever produced. The element, still nameless, appears to point the way toward a brew of still more massive …
Prasun Chatterjee, an Indian environmental engineering student whose research has contributed to a new way of detecting toxic lead and copper in water, has won one of the highest US research honours. Chatterjee, a research student at the University of Lehigh, Pennsylvania, will receive the 2010 C Ellen Gonter Environmental …
Four coal miners were still missing and feared dead Tuesday, after a methane fireball tore through a West Virginia coal mine killing 25 workers in the worst US mining disaster in more than two decades. A search for the miners missing in Monday
Strong aftershocks jolted cities along the border between the United States and Mexico early on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake killed at least two people in northern Mexico. Governor of Baja California Jose Guadalupe Osuna Millan, Mexico, where the 7.2-magnitude quake struck on Sunday afternoon, said he had …
Narayan Lakshman Washington DC: An earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter Scale rocked large tracts of the Western coast of Mexico and the United States 3:40 p.m. (local time) on Easter Sunday. The quake struck around 62 km from Mexicali, near the U.S.-Mexico border and was felt hundred of km …
The industry most often accused of being responsible for the excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere is, strange as it may seem, desperate to buy more of the stuff. Oil companies are paying industrial plants and natural gas processing facilities to bottle their waste CO2, and are then pumping it …
There are times when letting go is the best way to move forward. When the US abandoned plans for a nuclear waste repository at Yucca mountain, Nevada, there was no alternative in sight. Now, less than two months after that decision to walk away from a decades-long, multibillion-dollar boondoggle, a …
Ashish Kumar Sen in Washington I think the opposition in India has recently expressed its objections to aspects of that legislation, so it will be up to the government of India to figure out how to move forward on this. But again, they've always said to us that they remain …
Narayan Lakshman Washington DC: New standards for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles have been announced by the Obama administration, even as President Barack Obama came in for criticism from environmental groups for authorising a major offshore oil-and-gas drilling expansion. At the announcement of the drilling project Mr. Obama said,
JOHN M. BRODER The federal government took its first formal step to regulate global warming pollution on Thursday by issuing final rules for greenhouse gas emissions for automobiles and light trucks. The move ends a 30-year battle between regulators and automakers but sets the stage for what may be a …
