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. …
US Interior Secretary Ken Salazar heard hours of Alaskans' opinions about drilling for oil and gas off their state's shores and came away on Tuesday promising a plan to allow development while accounting for environmental risks. "I think everything is on the table. We are not prejudging the outcome of …
Two years ago, Maries Jimenez demonstrated against the proposed development of the Resolution Copper mine by Rio Tinto and BHP Billi-ton here. The mining site, nearly two kilometers above the largest known copper reserve in North America, is also adjacent to Apache Leap, a majestic jutting cliff of rocks. According …
A US Border Patrol agent who tried to import rare tortoises in a box labelled "scorpions" pleaded guilty on Tuesday to animal-trafficking charges, the Justice Department said. It turns out that scorpions also draw an extra look from federal agents. Rene Soliz faces a maximum one-year sentence and will resign …
Washington: Consumers who buy minicars to economize on fuel are making a big tradeoff when it comes to safety in collisions, according to an insurance group that slammed three minimodels into midsize ones in tests. In a report prepared for release on Tuesday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said …
US President Barack Obama hopes to get a climate change bill on his desk this year and is open to discussing how stringent the rules of a carbon emissions trading system should be for industry, a top adviser said on Tuesday. Nancy Sutley, chairwoman of the White House Council on …
Cattle ranchers are far bigger culprits in Amazon deforestation than soy farmers, a study showed on Tuesday, as the environmental record of Brazil's commodity exporters comes under increasing international scrutiny. The study, produced jointly by environmental groups and the soy industry, showed that only 12 of 630 sample areas deforested …
Senior US administration officials have indicated that if Congress does not pass comprehensive legislation providing for a cap-and-trade system to regulate greenhouse gas emissions they will press ahead unilaterally with proposals using the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s existing authority under the Clean Air Acts. This is an attempt to gain …
North Korea vowed on Tuesday to restore nuclear facilities that it had been disabling and boycott international talks on its nuclear weapons program to protest against the UN Security Council
A US-French joint venture plans to build North America's first lithium-ion battery cell plant as part of a belated drive by the US public and private sectors to close the competitive gap with Asian electric-car technology. Johnson Controls, based in Wisconsin, and France's Saft, which opened a similar facility in …
By Humphery Hawksley, BBC News The project tracked the change of air quality in 51 American cities since the 1980s. It has taken a quarter of a century, but US researchers say their work has finally enabled them to determine to what extent city air pollution impacts on average life …
climate change EU wants more action With a world agreement on climate policy scheduled for December 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, negotiations and blame games are reaching a frenzy. During recent EU-US bilateral talks, American policymakers criticized EU
Researchers find a virus-free way of turning adult cells into unspecialized stem cells THE Obama government of the US recently lifted the 8-year ban imposed by the Bush administration on human embryonic stem cell research. The ban had come about because of an ongoing debate on the use of embryos …
A chemical released by algae blamed hundreds of wintering seabirds were reportedly found dead on the shores of Monterey bay, usa, towards the end of 2007. Feathers of the birds were coated in a foamy yellow-green substance. A team of researchers traced the substance to an unusually large red tide …
Two new drugs hold promise for tuberculosis patients tuberculosis is a common and deadly disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It leads to 1.6 to 2 million deaths annually. Worse still, most of the bacterial strains are resistant to multiple drugs and their numbers are rising. The class of …
Coastal erosion may reshape the Arctic coast completely THE rate of coastal erosion in the Arctic is one of the highest in the world. It has doubled over the past 52 years and is accelerating. This spells trouble for communities living by the shore such as the Shishmaref in Alaska …
