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. …
Ameria 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 …
New Delhi: India will be signing an MoU with US on climate change when PM Manmohan Singh visits US on November 24. But, the discussions between the two countries continue as US continues to convince India to agree to several issues that stand contrary to its international climate policy. In …
With developed countries doing little to ensure that Copenhagen yields a comprehensive global agreement, the stalled climate change negotiations are likely to receive a big impetus later this week from China, which is learnt to be all set to announce some major concessions during US President Barack Obama's visit. Beijing …
P. S. Suryanarayana SINGAPORE: American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday pledged support for the creation of a global climate fund to help developing countries. She called for credible elections in Myanmar and restraint on the inter-Korean border. Speaking on the sidelines of the summit of the forum of …
In conjunction with the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego, CB Richard Ellis has released the largest study of its kind on the benefits of green office space for occupants located in a significant portfolio of CBRE managed office buildings. The study found occupants reported …
New Delhi: Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday advised the Gujarat government and other agencies not to allow the beaching and dismantling of the controversial Platinum II ship at Alang. An office memorandum sent from the Union ministry states,
The Centre has asked the Gujarat government to disallow beaching and breaking of a US ship, anchored off Alang port, as a technical team found high levels of toxic material and radioactive substances on it. In a letter to the Gujarat Maritime Board, the ministry of environment and forest said …
Hasan Suroor LONDON: A meeting of G20 Finance Ministers at St. Andrews in Scotland on Sunday failed to reach an agreement on funding climate change as developed countries continued to dither over the amount of money they were willing to offer to developing countries to help them adopt environmental-friendly schemes. …
India should heed the Aesop dictum: Be careful what you wish for, lest it should come true Surjit S Bhalla / New Delhi November 7, 2009, 0:38 IST Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh struck several chords when he suggested, via a leaked letter to the prime minister (PM), that the time …
RAMESH RAMACHANDRAN The United States (US) and the 27member European Union (EU) on Friday made a double-barrelled effort to get India on board a climate deal and pitched for India's cooperation in forging a consensus at the crucial climate summit in Copenhagen next month. Leading the American charge was Maria …
Climate migrants and exiles pose a unique challenge that requires a special international strategy, which only the United States, with its well-established and transparent regimes for legal immigration, has the experience and capacity to develop. To begin with, the US could take the initiative in formulating domestic policy to start …
PRIME Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday that India was not ready to quantify its carbon emission targets even as the US hoped India would take a leadership role by committing to emission cuts. Ahead of the UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen next month, Mr Singh said that India …
Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: The Union environment and forest ministry team sent to assess the toxic material on-board the controversial ship Platinum II, anchored in Indian waters near Alang for ship-breaking, has confirmed the vessel contains tonnes of toxins. The Central team was dispatched to Gujarat to assess …
Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Central technical team sent to inspect Platinum-II, the ship that anchored at Bhavnagar Anchorage Point along the Alang coast in Gujarat last month, has concluded that the vessel is a passenger ship and not carrying any radioactive or hazardous waste in loose form or as …
When small earthquakes shake the central US, citizens often fear that the rumbles are signs of a big earthquake coming A new research has shown that most small earthquakes occurring in the US are actually aftershocks of big earthquakes that happened in the 19th century. Researchers from Northwe-stern University and …
A team of experts that probed complaints of high levels of toxic material and radioactive substance in a US ship anchored off Alang port in Gujarat has said the vessel contains these substances. The five-member team, however, failed to assess the hazard factor of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) in the vessel …
Human activities have more than doubled the amount of nitrogen(N) circulating in the biosphere. One major pathway of thisanthropogenic N input into ecosystems has been increased regionaldeposition from the atmosphere. Here we show that atmosphericN deposition increased the stoichiometric ratio of N and phosphorus(P) in lakes in Norway, Sweden, and …
