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. …
Isabel Hilton In Delhi last week, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, the guru of sustainable development from Columbia University, delivered a sobering message about U.S. climate politics. There was very little chance, he said, that the U.S. would pass climate legislation this year and almost no chance the Senate would ever adopt …
Water might be locally renewable, but it is also a globally finite resource with shifting availability. Industry accounts for most of the water used in the U.S., yet industry-specific estimates of that consumption
The goal of this study was to identify commercial chemicals that might be persistent and bioaccumulative (P&B;) and that were not being considered in current Great Lakes, North American, and Arctic contaminant measurement programs. We combined the Canadian Domestic Substance List (DSL), a list of 3059 substances of
In Attempt To Understand Cosmic History, Gold Ions Smashed To Generate 4-Trillion-Degrees-Celsius Heat Washington: Scientists have created the hottest temperature ever in the lab
Rates of obesity and other childhood chronic conditions have increased over recent decades. Patterns of how conditions change over time have not been widely examined. This study aims to evaluate change in prevalence of obesity and other chronic conditions in US children, including incidence, remission, and prevalence.
TODD WOODY and CLIFFORD KRAUSS SAN FRANCISCO If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first. The San Francisco building code will soon be revised to require that new structures be wired for car chargers. Across the street from City …
San Francisco Takes The Lead, New Buildings Will Have To Be Wired For Car Chargers Todd Woody & Clifford Krauss San Francisco: If electric cars have any future in the United States, this may be the city where they arrive first. The San Francisco building code will soon be revised …
Nalini Ravichandran | ENS Sexologists cite US study to claim 30 per cent decline in fertility ratio SEXOLOGISTS have joined the debate on Bt brinjal and have passed a resolution urging the Central government to prohibit the commercial cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops in the country, claiming that it …
India has played a crucial role in making essential medicines available and affordable for patients in the developing world through generic drugs. This has been possible by linking India’s patent policies and laws to public interest. Similarly, policies that align public funded R&D in India with public health have the …
Mid 16th century The Spaniards’ expectations of plentiful and easily accessible gold reserves proves unfounded, but the island still becomes important as a seat of colonial administration, a starting point for conquests of other lands, and a laboratory to develop policies for governing new possessions. At Española the Spanish crown …
A 17th century world map with China at its centre, is on display at the Library of Congress in Washington. Printed on rice paper, the map was created by Italian missionary Matteo Ricci in 1602. It is rarely displayed and, because of its fragility, is called the “Impossible Black Tulip …
John M. Broder As millions of people along the U.S. East Coast hole up in their snowbound homes, the two sides in the climate-change debate are seizing on the mounting drifts to bolster their arguments. Skeptics of global warming are using the record-setting snows to mock those who warn of …
In the early 1970s, scientists warned that anthropogenic chemicals containing chlorine (Cl) would lead to destruction of stratospheric ozone (O3), the protective veil that reduces the amount of harmful ultraviolet (UV) rays that reach the Earth
Suzanne Goldenberg The Obama administration delivered a vote of confidence in climate science on Tuesday by setting up a service to study and report on global warming. It will put scientists and data from the national weather service and various departments of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under …
Could it be time to exhale? Cautious optimism about the state of the global economy pervaded conversation at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, the gathering of financial and political
