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. …
An unusual strain of swine flu is circulating among people in the Southwest but is not known to have caused any deaths, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. The agency, which has found only seven cases, expects to find more now that it has begun looking intensively …
The top U.S. climate change official brought a "message of hope" to a summit of environment ministers from rich and poor nations on Wednesday, saying Washington was committed to curbing greenhouse gases. Lisa Jackson, head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), told the Group of Eight (G8) industrial countries …
Greenhouse gas emissions from industrialized nations rose by nearly one percent in 2007, led by strong gains in the United States, official data showed. Carbon emissions from countries signed up to the Kyoto Protocol climate pact edged up by 0.1 percent in 2007, mainly due to rises in Japan and …
Democrats in Congress sought to stake out a compromise on climate control legislation on Thursday as environmentalists awaited California's decision on new limits on auto emissions. The two moves signaled growing political momentum behind efforts to curb greenhouse gases, which President Barack Obama, a Democrat, has made a policy priority …
The U.S. government will make its first in-depth survey of organic farming this spring, an eight-page questionnaire on which crops and livestock are produced, how they are grown and where they are sold. Questionnaires will be mailed in early May with responses due by mail or Internet by June 17, …
The US cotton industry has expressed its concern over subsidies being provided by the Indian government to its cotton growing farmers, alleging it is in violation of the World Trade Organisation
The lagging performance of American schoolchildren, particularly among poor and minority students, has had a negative economic impact on the country that exceeds that of the current recession, according to a report released on Wednesday. The study, conducted by the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, pointed to bleak disparities …
Controversial US Doctor Claims To Have Implanted 11 Cloned Embryos In Wombs Of 4 Women London: A United States-based fertility doctor claimed to have cloned 14 human embryos and transferred 11 of them into the wombs of four women. In an interview published on Wednesday, Panayiotis Zavos told Britain
Obama administration officials said Wednesday that an ambitious energy and climate-change proposal sponsored by House Democrats could help create jobs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but they stopped short of endorsing it. Steven Chu, the secretary of energy, and Lisa P. Jackson, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, told …
President Barack Obama said on Wednesday the United States must lead the world on renewable energy and pressed Congress to set greenhouse gas limits deemed crucial for the success of global talks on climate change. Obama, who has kept energy reform high on his priority list since taking office in …
The United States and other rich nations must do more to help clinch a landmark deal on climate change this year, a top U.N. official said at a meeting of global environment ministers. The three-day meeting of the Group of Eight industrial countries and major developing economies, which opened in …
President Barack Obama's top climate negotiator warned on Wednesday that international efforts to tackle global warming are doomed unless the United States enacts laws to limit greenhouse gas emissions. "There will be no new global deal if the United States is not part of it and we won't be part …
The U.S. Interior Department on Wednesday issued long-delayed guidelines for leasing offshore areas for renewable energy production, opening the door to wind power generation off the coasts. The department's Mineral Management Service (MMS) will issue two types of leases for development of renewable resources off U.S. coasts. Long-term commercial leases …
Pakistan's Associated Group (AG) is awarding $100 million in contracts to two Oklahoma-based companies for the construction of two power plants in Pakistan. An announcement to this effect was made by AG Chairman Iqbal Z Ahmed at a joint press conference with Oklahoma state officials at the Oklahoma State Capitol, …
Elected leaders in New York City will propose a suite of laws and other initiatives on Wednesday aimed at reducing energy consumption and related emissions of greenhouse gases by requiring owners of thousands of older buildings to upgrade everything from boilers to light bulbs. Planners asserted that the package, drafted …
Americans for UNFPA President, Anika Rahman, a Bangladeshi-American, rang the NASDAQ stock Market, Inc. Opening Bell on Thursday April 9 last. While thanking the Obama Administration and Congress for their support of the world's women, she will call on all of us to declare, "I am an American for UNFPA." …
