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. …
NEW DELHI: To bring clean water to thousands of slum residents of Mumbai, a team of engineering students from the US, who collaborated with students from IIT-Bombay, would visit the city later this month with their ideas and plans to tackle the grave problem. A team from University of Minnesota-Twin …
Federal health officials will probably recommend that most Americans get three flu shots this fall: one regular flu shot and two doses of any vaccine made against the new swine flu strain. Having had annual flu shots for the last several years gives
The House Energy and Commerce Committee, splitting largely along party lines, approved on Thursday the most ambitious energy and global warming legislation ever debated in Congress. The bill
The head of the World Health Organization said Thursday she would not hesitate to raise the global pandemic alert to the top of the six-point scale if the new H1N1 flu is spreading globally. But with pressure growing for her to factor in the severity of the newly-discovered disease as …
The U.S. government will reverse a Bush administration policy and increase the role of scientists in setting air standards for criteria pollutants harmful to human health, Lisa Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, said on Thursday. Jackson said the EPA will reinstate the role of a policy document …
A $1 billion proposal to build the first big U.S. offshore wind-power farm passed a key hurdle on Thursday by winning permit requirements in Massachusetts, where it faces opposition from some influential residents. Cape Wind Associates LLC, a privately funded Boston-based energy company, has proposed constructing 130 wind turbines over …
People are very entrenched in the way they do their laundry," says Adam Lowry, the co-founder and chief "greenskeeper" at Method. And that's a problem, as we'll explain in a moment. Method is an 8-year-old company that makes "environmentally-friendly cleaning products that are safe for every home and every body." …
The U.S. biofuels industry would be hamstrung if government regulators choose to use unfair and untested formulas that hold it responsible for greenhouse gases from crops overseas, ethanol groups said on Thursday. U.S. and California environmental regulators included indirect land use change overseas in formulas that measure greenhouse gases from …
Rich nations should cut their greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels as part of a new global climate change pact, China said on Thursday, spelling out its stance ahead of negotiations. Photo: Shannon Stapleton BEIJING - Rich nations should cut their greenhouse gas …
The United States and European Union can pay to transfer to developing countries more than three-quarters of proposed carbon cuts over the next decade, draft and approved rules show. That reinforces how rich countries may agree in December to tough targets to beat climate change, under a new treaty to …
Swine flu cases world-wide climbed past 10,000 on Wednesday as health chiefs from around the world continued discussions in Geneva on how best to fight the disease. There are now 10,243 people who have been infected with the A/H1N1 flu virus as confirmed by laboratories, said Fadela Chaib, a spokeswoman …
Confirming the first impressions of many American and Mexican doctors, federal health officials said on Wednesday that people born before 1957 appear to have some immunity to the swine flu virus now circulating. Tests on blood serum from older people showed that they had antibodies that attacked the new virus, …
The European Union and China patched up differences at a summit Wednesday, pledging to create a new global order to combat the financial crisis, dwindling world trade and climate change. Relations between China and the EU became strained after December's EU-China summit was postponed over Beijing's opposition to a meeting …
U.S. lawmakers pushing to include greater recognition for existing nuclear power in a national renewable energy standard failed to win new breaks for the industry when a U.S. congressional panel on Wednesday voted down an amendment to a controversial climate change bill. The sweeping bill, which seeks to cap greenhouse …
The United Nations issued a range of rival ideas for fighting climate change from rich and poor nations on Wednesday and said the world was "not standing still" in work on a new U.N. treaty. The 53-page text included suggestions that rich nations set aside up to 2 percent of …
There is good news about carbon capture and storage (CCS), the technology that is intended to slow global warming by capturing industrial carbon dioxide emissions and injecting them underground. Last week, US energy secretary Steven Chu outlined plans for using some $2.4 billion in economic stimulus money to research aspects …
After years of lambasting US vehicle efficiency standards as being weaker than those of China, green campaigners delighted in the stronger measures proposed by President Barack Obama, writes Fiona Harvey in London . Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the measures "a global warming solution that …
President Obama will announce tough new nationwide rules for automobile emissions and mileage standards on Tuesday, embracing standards that California has sought to enact for years over the objections of the auto industry and the Bush administration. The rules, which will begin to take effect in 2012, will put in …
