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. …
evolution First blood Palaeontologists dug up a dinosaur bone buried for 80 million years in Montana, usa. The find yielded blood and bone cells and collagen protein
Traffic pollution is known to cause chronic bronchitis and asthma, killing thousands every year. But that is not all. Simply living beside a busy road has its consequences. Particles in vehicular exhaust can stick to lungs for longer than was known, endanger the health of an unborn child, lead to …
Democrat Obama can set pace for climate change legislation US president Barack Obama completed 100 days in office recently. When he assumed office, the world
Washington: The wind, a favorite power source of the green energy movement, seems to be dying down across the US. And the cause, ironically, may be global warming
The cut off percentage for admissions into agricultural universities in the State has fallen from 82 per cent in the 1990s to 37 per cent in 2007. The number of applicants for 600 seats at the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Bangalore, has plummeted from 4,000 in 1996 to a …
To appropriately mitigate environmental impacts from transportation, it is necessary for decision makers to consider the life-cycle energy use and emissions. Most current decision-making relies on analysis at the tailpipe, ignoring vehicle production, infrastructure provision, and fuel production required for support. We present results of a comprehensive life-cycle energy, greenhouse …
Nineteen leading agricultural exporting nations, including Australia, Brazil and South Africa, began talks in Bali, Indonesia, on Sunday aimed at pushing forward troubled world trade negotiations. As well as seeking to move forward the stalled Doha talks on a world trade deal, the Cairns Group of nations
Bangladesh has called upon the global community to support climate change strategies and adapt action plans of the least developed countries (LDCs) for facing the ever increasing adverse impacts of global warming and sea-rise. The call came when leader of Bangladesh delegation and environment ministry joint secretary Martuza Ahmed was …
Six years of worrying about bird flu did much to prepare the United States for the current swine flu outbreak, federal officials and an independent monitoring group said Thursday, but they cautioned that there were still gaps in planning. After the H5N1 avian flu emerged widely in Asia in 2003, …
Chewing her cud on a recent sunny morning, Libby, a 1,400-pound Holstein, paused to do her part in the battle against global warming, emitting a fragrant burp. Guy Choiniere, part of the Stonyfield Farm experiment, has seen methane drop by 18 percent. Libby, age 6, and the 74 other dairy …
U.S. lawmakers on Thursday sought to increase incentives for nuclear power and energy efficiency in a measure that would require utilities to generate a certain amount of electricity from renewable sources. Nuclear power is not currently considered a renewable electricity source in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee bill. …
