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. …
The proliferation of wind energy as a viable alternative to fossil based fuels used in the production of electricity is well documented. (1) While media reports on the influx of wind power farms often shed a positive light on the use of wind for generating electricity, few reports have squarely …
Dow and a start-up firm to test process expected to harvest hydrocarbons Dow Chemical and Algenol Biofuels, a U.S. start-up company, were set to announce Monday that they would build a demonstration plant that, if successful, would use algae to turn carbon dioxide into ethanol for use as a vehicle …
Group of eight leaders will ask major emerging economies like India and China to adopt actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions "in an indicative range below business as usual," Japanese media reported on Sunday. The G8 leaders meeting from July 8-10 in L'Aquila, Italy, will urge major emerging economies such …
Eco-concerns drive demand for biodegradable bags on the global market, giving rise to the exports of shopping jute bags from Bangladesh. Jute goods makers export around 100,000 shopping bags a month on average to different countries. They hope scope for more shipments will widen next year, as some European countries …
New Delhi: Even if India grows by 8% every year with the current set of technologies and policies in place, its per capita emissions will not exceed 2.77 tonnes in 2031
Export Basket High In Carbon Content: US Nitin Sethi | TNN New Delhi: Should the industrialized world be allowed to put an import tax on goods from India because it has a
To the 2-drug team to combat the virus deadlier than HIV THE Hepatitis C virus has infected over 170 million people worldwide which is four times the number of hiv infected people. India, alone, has three million cases. The existing treatment is a combination of two drugs: interferon and ribavirin, …
Its positive effects stay on for years breastfeeding for longer time periods reduces the risk of strokes and heart attacks for the mother, later in life. 100,000 post-menopausal women in the US, who reported at least one live birth in their lifetime, were studied for risk of cardiovascular diseases by …
Goes for auto emission cuts from far behind in the race us president Barack Obama has set in motion a national policy that is expected to make cars and trucks in the country 30 per cent more fuel efficient by 2016. The policy is also expected to cut 900 million …
patent Human genes create stir in US About 100,000 cancer patients, doctors, researchers and lawyers sued the US government for granting patents for two human genes. They said the patents deny women with breast and ovarian cancer the benefit of new tests and possible treatment. A company or an institution …
Mercury emissions are poisoning seafood amongst the chemicals that poison fish, methyl mercury is one. An environmental pollutant, it makes its way into the ocean where it enters the food chain and is consumed by fish which are eaten by humans. In the US, 40 per cent of all human …
No more thumb twiddling as you wait for the computer to start computers that could instantly switch on at the desktop mode without the time-consuming process of booting, may now be possible. Researchers have induced a property in silicon
Infrared rays can easily detect the contaminant in milk in september 2008, milk contaminated with a chemical called melamine led to renal complications in 300,000 children of China; six died. This chemical, used in producing plastics and glues, is also used in food adulteration. The high nitrogen content in the …
Landmark legislation to curb U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions was approved by the House of Representatives in a close vote late Friday, securing an initial victory for a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's agenda. The 1,200 page bill
New Delhi: If the current fleet of 25-40 million gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles in the US were to shift to more fuel-efficient cars such as those in Europe, more than 1.6 billion people in the world living in the dark can be given electricity without any major increase in the …
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday hailed as an example to Australia the U.S. House of Representatives passage of a bill to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. Rudd's Labor government is struggling to get its own emissions trading scheme approved by parliament, and the deadlock is …
The United States may become the largest market for renewable energy for E.ON, the world's largest utility by sales, within six years, the head of the company's green energy unit told Reuters in an interview. Half of the company's generation capacity using renewable energy sources may be in the United …
A new global free trade accord could help fight climate change by making clean-energy products more widely available, the World Trade Organization and United Nations Environment Program said on Friday. Bucking conventional thinking about the climate hazards of shipping products by air, land and sea, the two agencies argued that …
President Barack Obama on Sunday called a House-passed climate change bill "an extraordinary first step," but spoke out against a provision that would impose trade penalties on countries that fail to cut greenhouse gas emissions. "At a time when the economy worldwide is still deep in recession and we've seen …
