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 flu virus spreading around the world should not be called "swine flu" as it also contains avian and human components and no pig was found ill with the disease so far, the World Animal Health body said on Monday. A more logical name for it would be "North-American influenza", …
MEXICO CITY: Governments around the world rushed on Sunday to check the spread of a new type of swine flu that has killed up to 81 people in Mexico and infected around a dozen in the United States. Mexicans huddled in their homes while U.S. hospitals tracked patients with flu …
Responding to what some health officials feared could be the leading edge of a global pandemic emerging from Mexico, American health officials declared a public health emergency on Sunday as 20 cases of swine flu were confirmed in this country, including eight in New York City. Other nations imposed travel …
European ambassadors approved a European Union plan to ban imports of furs and other products from culled seals on Friday, moving the 27-nation bloc one step closer to a trade clash with Norway and Canada. Both seal-hunting nations have warned the EU in recent weeks that they could challenge the …
Environment ministers from major rich and developing nations signed a deal on Friday to try to slow species loss, but failed to make progress in crucial climate change talks despite US pledges of commitment. Almost every country in the world in 2002 agreed to a "significant reduction" in the rate …
Alison Baum of San Antonio, Texas hopes to save money and eat better by getting her hands dirty. She is joining the swelling ranks of Americans who have started backyard fruit and vegetable gardening, a trend rooted in a desire to cut costs as the recession bites, fears about the …
Democrats in Congress worked on Thursday to win over US lawmakers sceptical of climate change legislation, while climate leader California took another major step with low-carbon rules on fuels that could be copied nationwide. The two moves signalled growing political momentum behind efforts to curb greenhouse gases, which President Barack …
Up to 250,000 children are at risk of malnutrition and disease in southern Madagascar as a political crisis and tropical cyclones exacerbate severe food shortages, the UN children agency said. UNICEF said that the rains had failed again in the Indian Ocean island's southern region, devastating the last harvest and …
California's new low-carbon fuel rules may be a violation of NAFTA and World Trade Organization provisions because they would unfairly limit exports of crude from Canada's oil sands to the state, a prominent Canadian trade lawyer said on Friday. California adopted a first-ever rule on Thursday requiring refineries, producers and …
California's newly adopted low-carbon fuel standard may mark the beginning of the end of ethanol's coveted status as the sole US alternative motor fuel. The US state with the most cars late on Thursday approved the world's first-ever regulations to slash emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide from vehicle fuels. The …
The United States hopes to take the reins of international efforts to battle global warming next week with a meeting of major economies aimed at facilitating a UN pact to cut greenhouse gas emissions. President Barack Obama, a Democrat who took office in January, called the meeting last month to …
Global warming activist Al Gore on Friday urged passage this year of a US law to slash greenhouse emissions, saying failure to pass legislation could cause the collapse of world climate negotiations. Gore, the former US vice president and star of the Oscar-winning documentary film "An Inconvenient Truth," told members …
MEXICO CITY: Fears of a global flu pandemic grew as new suspected cases appeared across the world on Sunday, including up to 81 people who died in Mexico, where millions hid indoors to avoid contamination. While all the deaths so far have been in Mexico, the flu is spreading in …
CATHERINE BREMER MEXICO CITY World health officials on Sunday stepped up the battle against a new swine flu, blamed for dozens of deaths in Mexico, as the US declared a public emergency amid signs the disease was spreading. The US will screen visitors from infected areas as 20 cases were …
In the next few decades, energy efficiency and conservation will be the most effective mitigations tools. Developed countries need to change infrastructure that was built when fossil energy was cheap and the unintended consequences of its use was unknown. Developing countries have the opportunity to leap-frog past developed countries and …
Vaporising household waste to create clean energy could solve two of humanity's biggest environmental problems at once. But is "gasification" as green as it sounds?
