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 commitment by six Asia-Pacific nations to protect a huge swathe of ecologically rich coral reef is an important step, although the pact is non-binding and key details still need to thrashed out, conservationists said. Indonesia, Malaysia, East Timor, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands border a …
A leading US lawmaker behind efforts to tackle global warming predicted on Monday that his climate change bill will advance this week in the House of Representatives, even as Republicans warned it will ruin the ailing US economy. Representative Henry Waxman, the Democratic chair of the House Energy and Commerce …
The White House will unveil an auto fuel efficiency proposal on Tuesday to resolve a dispute between California and the US government over emissions and accelerate the timeframe for sharply improving mileage performance, industry and other sources said. The proposal, if accepted by California and a dozen other states that …
Protesters in the Amazon basin have forced Peru's state energy company to shut its crude oil pipeline, a company official said on Monday as the government tries to end weeks of demonstrations over natural resources. Indigenous communities have blocked roads and waterways to pressure the government to revoke investment laws …
Canada's oil sands emit more carbon dioxide than average crude so developers need a clearer picture of where greenhouse gas regulations are headed to find the best way to tap the giant resource, experts said. "The future regulation of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and Canada will influence …
Farmer Monty Whipple held the problem of the eastern US corn belt in the palm of his hand: a ball of mud, densely compacted. His nearly 400-acre farm, about 90 miles southwest of Chicago in LaSalle County, was filled with mud. Several fields less than a mile down the country …
A prolonged earthquake shook the Los Angeles area on Sunday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries. The USGS, which described the earthquake as "moderate," said the magnitude was 5.0. The quake was 8.4 miles (13.52 km) deep and centred near the …
German solar companies that have not yet set up US and Chinese production plants are likely to lose out on significant subsidies and will struggle to bring down their production costs to the levels of their Asian peers. Announcements of solar subsidy programmes in the two countries have supported the …
An assistant principal at a New York City public school died of complications from swine flu in an intensive care unit of a Queens hospital on Sunday night, the first death in New York State of the flu strain that has swept across much of the world since it was …
Swelled rivers that have flooded homes to their rooftops and forced more than 260,000 people from their homes in northeastern Brazil will probably take a few more weeks to recede, Brazilian authorities said over the weekend. The intense flooding has paralyzed large swaths of this sweltering tropical region, where schools …
The number of swine flu cases in Japan soared over the weekend, raising the likelihood that the World Health Organization will soon have to raise its pandemic alert level to 6, the highest level. On Sunday, the assistant principal of a school in Queens died after being hospitalized with swine …
The biggest seawater desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere, north of San Diego, can begin construction by year's end after a six-year effort to win regulators' approval, the developer said on Thursday. The San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board voted unanimously on Wednesday to approve permit revisions for the …
Democrats in the US House of Representatives have negotiated a climate change bill that would give industries most of the pollution emission permits they would need, according to documents obtained on Friday. President Barack Obama has made passage of a bill a top priority and wants demonstrable progress by December, …
Protesters angry over oil and natural gas developments in Peru's resource-rich Amazon vowed on Friday to defy the government and step up demonstrations that have disrupted operations at energy companies. A private-sector source told Reuters that as many as 41 vessels serving energy companies are stuck along jungle rivers, unable …
Fifteen percent of emissions permits would be sold to polluters each year under a climate change bill moving through the US House of Representatives, according to a document circulated on Friday describing the legislation. The proceeds from those sales would be distributed to low-income and moderate-income families in the United …
Oil refiners would be given 2 percent of greenhouse gas emission permits under a proposed climate change bill that Democrats in the US House of Representatives are writing, according to a document describing that legislation. The proposal, which could still change in coming days, would also give local natural gas …
The financial crisis has made it harder for the EU to agree on an internal target for cutting greenhouse gas emissions as part of a global climate change deal, Sweden's environment minister said on Friday. The Nordic country will take the helm of the European Union in the run-up to …
A US research team has found the most promising natural gas hydrate deposits yet under the US Gulf of Mexico, improving chances the ice-like formations will become a major energy source, scientists said on Thursday. "It's very encouraging. We consider this expedition a major shift in our understanding," said Timothy …
China's drive into wind power has been a boon to the young industry, but foreign turbine makers say China has stacked the odds so firmly against them that its own clean energy goals could be in jeopardy. China's wind power generation has doubled in the last year and is expected …
