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. …
A radiation leak at Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear accident in US history, has sent home about 150 workers, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission reported. "They had an airborne radiological contamination alarm," NRC spokeswoman Diane Screnci said. "They evaluated all the workers, a handful of workers, I …
Malini Parthasarathy Washington: With Indian negotiators working overtime with their American counterparts to have an agreement on arrangements for fuel reprocessing, ready for signing by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday, India is linking the issue of climate change commitments to the case for greater …
Focussing on convergence in energy services instead of emissions is a better bet at Copenhagen Nancy Birdsall & Arvind Subramanian / November 21, 2009, 0:40 IST The emerging consensus is that no agreement on climate change
Developed countries may not accept the targets for the post-2012 phase under the Kyoto Protocol and may even abandon it altogether. ALL indications are that the crucial 15th Conference of the Parties (COP-15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in December is going to …
THE UNITED Nations climate change conference at Copenhagen next month is meant to further the goals of a global environmental treaty -- the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In 1988, a resolution of the UN General Assembly considered the climate change matter as a "common concern for …
Washington: Pakistan is estimated to have more nuclear warheads than India and the two Asian neighbours along with China are increasing their arsenals and deploying weapons at more sites, two eminent US atomic experts have claimed. While Pakistan is estimated to possess 70-90 nuclear weapons, India is believed to have …
Counter-terrorism cooperation at the bilateral, regional and global levels will be among the four or five "big ideas" that will define Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's talks with US President Barack Obama in Washington on November 24. Another element of the US-India 3.0 relationship will be an initiative to usher in …
Washington: The number of Americans who lived in households that lacked consistent access to adequate food soared last year, to 49 million, the highest since the government began tracking what it calls
US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised a determined, joint effort to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament and other global troubles yet emerged from their first full-blown summit on Tuesday with scant progress beyond goodwill. After two hours of talks, both spoke of moving beyond the divisiveness …
Sometime ago we asked if Barack Obama was black or white. Now we are wondering how green he is, going by the way the US establishment has already given up on a legally binding global agreement on climate change at Copenhagen. However, the American president needs to be complimented for …
Ananth Krishnan BEIJING: The United States and China have lent their support to achieving a legally-binding agreement at the Copenhagen climate talks next month, reviving hopes of a deal being reached. After talks between U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao, the two countries said in a joint …
With less than a month to go for the Copenhagen climate conference, there is great expectation that India, the fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases, will come up with a clear plan to stem the growth of its carbon emissions. After a long phase of denial, there are some signs …
America will not pass a cap-and-trade law in time for the global climate-change summit in Copenhagen next month. To understand why, it helps to ask a farmer. Take Bruce Wright, for example, who grows wheat and other crops on a couple of thousand acres near Bozeman, Montana. His family has …
US President Barack Obama and other world leaders have decided to put off the difficult task of reaching a climate change agreement at a global climate conference scheduled for next month, agreeing instead to make it the mission of the Copenhagen conference to reach a less specific
