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. …
Use of environmentally persistent polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants has been reduced because of concerns about health effects, but potential health effects of organophosphate (OP) flame retardants used as alternatives to PBDEs have not been extensively investigated, despite evidence of widespread human exposure. Meeker and Stapleton (p. 318) measured …
N N Sachitanand The surge in car population runs totally counter to commitment made at Copenhagen to curb greenhouse gas emissions The advent of a flood of cars has resulted in an atherosclerosis of city roads. With little available parking space in our cities, cars are now crammed in roadside …
In this paper, authors Nigel Purvis and Andrew Stevenson argue that the most dangerous thing Europe and the United States could do is ignore the strategic implications of Copenhagen and fall back into old strategies with a new sense of patience. They recommend a fundamental shift in thinking.
Carbon trading is now the fastest-growing commodities market on earth. Since 2005, when major greenhouse-gas polluters among the Kyoto signatories were issued caps on their emissions and permitted to buy credits to meet those caps, there have been more than $300 billion worth of carbon transactions. Major financial institutions such …
The New York Times described it as “one small step for preservation and one giant leap of logic”. California’s historical commission has voted to protect two small urine collection devices, four space-sickness bags and dozens of other pieces of detritus, all currently residing nearly a quarter of a million miles …
THERE is confusion still about the future of the Copenhagen Accord, the deal reached in Copenhagen in December 2009. While industrialized countries want the accord to be the basis of future negotiations, developing countries, including India and China, are distancing themselves from the accord. Their main criticism is the accord …
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has released a document entitled Health, United States, 2009. Prepared for the US President and Congress from data gathered by state and federal agencies and continuing national surveys, the report provides an annual picture of …
Latest images of Saturn's icy moon "Enceladus" showing jets of liquid and gas coming out from prominent fractures on the satellite's south polar region have left Nasa scientists astounded. "Enceladus continues to astound. With each Cassini flyby, we learn more about its extreme activity and what makes this strange moon …
The disproportionate distribution of environmental risks among the population is known as environmental justice, environmental equity or at some instance environmental racism. All these terms in fact define the status that the poor suffer greater exposure to environmental pollution than other communities. Environmental justice, however, implies that no person or …
Although fisherman routinely fight bans on fishing, studies indicate that the creation of protected marine reserves in key areas can both raise the profits of fishermen and boost fish populations. Marine reserves could help to make nearby fisheries profitable by acting as nurseries for fish larvae that are later spread …
Treating HIV infection aggressively before symptoms appear could help to control the spread of the disease, according to data presented at a retroviral conference. Independent studies in Canada, the United States and Africa support the strategy in both the developed and developing world. However, the studies are not definitive and …
A new research by US Geological Survey (USGS) has deter- mined that ice shelves are retreating in the southern section of the Antarctic Peninsula due to climate change, which could result in glacier retreat and sea- level rise if warming continues. The research by the USGS is the first to …
A US-based university has found medicinal values in vegetables grown in Karnataka. Studies conducted over two decades at Texas A&M; University show that consumption of carrot, onion, chilli and lemon grown in Karnataka can reduce the risk of cancer. According to the studies, lemon can reduce the risk of pancreatic …
U.S. President Barack Obama is making a fresh attempt on Monday to rescue his signature issue of overhauling the U.S. health care system, with a proposal to keep a lid on climbing insurance premiums. Mr. Obama's new plan includes a provision to allow the government to deny or roll back …
Amoderate 4.7 earthquake hit the Haiti region early on Monday, the US govern- ment reported. The epicen- tre of the tremor, which occurred at 9.36 GMT, was located in the sea 35 km west of Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, according to the US Geological Sur- vey. There were no immediate …
Applauding the Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Mission 2022 initiative launched by India to unleash 20,000 MW of power during the next decade, US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has expressed its strong desire to be associated with the Indian Government, industry and academia to research and develop clean energy green technology …
Geo-engineering is based on the princi- ple that making tweaks to the atm- osphere, such as seeding the clouds to make them brighter and more reflective, could bring down global temperatures US RESEARCHERS are studying the steam from ships, condensation trails of airplanes and volcanic erup- tions as they try …
Gro Harlem Brundtland, - former Prime - Minister of Norway . and now a UN r , envoy on climate change, says that environmental concerns will have r to be followed - by decisive political action THIRTY-EIGHT years ago, Indira Gandhi was the only Prime Minister to attend the historic …
The statistics are grimly familiar. According to the latest National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, every other child in the USA now has a body-mass index (BMI) at or above the 85th centile on age-specific national growth charts for ideal weight gain. And a nationwide survey by the Kaiser Family …
