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. …
Terming Bangladesh 'a role model in battling climate change in the region', Hakon Arald Gulbrandsen, Norwegian state secretary for international development, said all nations have to contribute to find a truly global answer for saving the world from the effects of global warming. He made the comment with The Daily …
A new U.S. commitment to tackle global warming as outlined by President Barack Obama will be the focus of attention on Wednesday at a meeting of international environment ministers. Obama has already pledged to cut U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, and observers will be looking to …
The U.S. Congress on Tuesday began work on a bill that would fundamentally change the way American factories and power plants use and supply energy as part of the Obama administration's drive to cut harmful greenhouse gas emissions. "The time for delay, denial and inaction has come to an end," …
U.S. scientists have combined a discovery from a French garbage dump with breakthroughs in synthetic biology to come up with a novel method for turning plant waste into gasoline, without the need of any food sources. A synthetic biology lab at the University of California San Francisco identified a compound …
General Electric unit GE Wind, a maker of wind turbines, expects to return to double-digit growth rates in 2010, after being flat in 2009, the head of GE Wind's German business said on Tuesday. GE Wind's European business is expected to double this year thanks to the launch of new …
John Schwartz A suit by some property owners who lost heavily during the hurricane claims that the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet channel was flawed in its design and that the flaws intensified the flood damage. A groundbreaking civil suit began in the federal court in New Orleans on Monday to …
A recent letter from US Trade Representative Ron Kirk downplays the notion that the Obama Administration would implement a border tax on imports from large developing countries to help domestic industry under a cap-and-trade scheme.
Rivers in some of the world's most populous regions are losing water, according to a new comprehensive study of global stream flow. The study, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), suggests that in many cases the reduced flows are associated with climate change. The process …
What should have been done ages ago has been sent to different ministries for opinion. This is not the Friday-Sunday issue to be debated upon. If you want to save energy by closing down shops and businesses at 8:00pm, then adopt the daylight saving scheme to save more. Pushing the …
Syeda Rizwana Hasan, chief executive of Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers' Association (BELA), has been awarded the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize 2009 for the Asia region in recognition of her contribution to the conservation of the environment. As Bangladesh's leading environmental attorney, Rizwana's legal advocacy for tighter regulations for the country's environmentally …
In just about every major contaminated food scare, Minnesotans become sick by the dozens while few people in Kentucky and other states are counted among the ill. In Kentucky, a county health worker called Lauren Threlkeld only to verify that she had fallen ill in another county. Contaminated peanuts? Forty-two …
According to a Recorder Report the federal cabinet has refused to give post facto approval to a memorandum of understanding signed last year by the Ministry of Water and Power and representatives from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan for the import of 1000MW electricity from those countries. The cabinet said that the …
An appeals court on Friday struck down the Bush administration's five-year plan for offshore oil and gas leasing, saying it was put into effect without proper environmental review. The US Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. ordered the Interior Department to rewrite the 2007-2012 plan, which was challenged by a …
INDIAN vaccine makers are setting their sights on tapping the growing US market after the Obama Administration committed $300 million for implementing immunisation programmes in the country. Companies like Bharat Biotech, Serum Institute and Biological E, regular suppliers to WHO vaccines programmes, are now looking at entering the US market. …
The US Environmental Protection Agency said on Friday six emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are a danger to public health and welfare. Here are excerpts from the EPA's so-called endangerment finding, which opens the way for possible regulation of climate-warming pollution. * "The scientific evidence clearly indicates that …
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday unveiled a finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, opening the door to federal regulation of carbon dioxide as a pollutant. The finding does not "automatically trigger" new carbon rules but could allow the EPA to move forward with limiting greenhouse gas …
European Union emissions of greenhouse gases blamed for stoking global warming fell by 1.2 percent in 2007, paradoxically aided by a mild winter that cut heating demand, EU data showed on Friday. Emissions by the 27-nation bloc in 2007, before the current global economic downturn, dipped to 9.2 percent below …
