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. …
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 pm, then adopt the day light saving scheme to save further. …
Efforts are underway to start export of mangoes to the United States during the forthcoming season, as the main hurdle of non-availability of irradiation treatment has now been removed. It would be a major breakthrough as at present India enjoys a complete sway in exports of mangoes to the United …
John Grunsfeld was sitting in an astronomical meeting in Atlanta in January of 2004 when he got a message to come back to headquarters in Washington to talk about the Hubble Space Telescope. To say that he was excited would be an understatement. As an astronaut, Dr. Grunsfeld had twice …
The threat of tougher regulation from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency should ease industrial opposition to a cap-and-trade market on greenhouse gases, a U.S. lawmaker said on Monday. U.S. Rep. Edward Markey, co-sponsor of a bill that would cut the nation's emissions of greenhouse gases associated with global climate change, …
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Friday the U.S. government will spend $15.2 million to modernize equipment for monitoring U.S. volcanoes and improve warning systems. The United States and its territories have 169 active volcanoes, and 54 of them need improved monitoring so scientists can warn the public about explosive …
A Florida utility and a real estate developer are aiming to bring the country's first solar-powered city to the Sunshine State. FPL Group Inc's utility Florida Power & Light is working with the realty group Kitson & Partners to construct what the utility says will be the world's largest photovoltaic …
Japan's latest burst of economic stimulus spending is aimed at promoting energy-efficient products made by recession-hit exporters, but analysts say it is unlikely to help the world's fifth-biggest polluter cut greenhouse gas emissions. Japan aims to cuts annual greenhouse gas emissions by 13 percent by March 2013 under the Kyoto …
A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying U.S. billionaire Charles Simonyi and a Russian-American crew touched down safely in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Charred black from its re-entry into atmosphere, the capsule -- also carrying U.S. astronaut Michael Fincke and Russian flight engineer Yuri Lonchakov -- landed north-east of the Kazakh industrial …
It's corn planting time in the U.S. Plains, and that means Kansas corn farmer Merl "Buck" Rexford is worrying about the weather -- and hoping there is enough water. Rexford plans to start seeding his 7,000 acres near Meade, Kansas, this week and he is relishing a recent heavy snow …
The global economy is undergoing a major shift. For a nation to be competitive it must strengthen its research agenda, become innovative, strengthen and protect its intellectual property, and find resources for the continuing education of its citizens.
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to add the Gowanus Canal, in Brooklyn, to its list of Superfund sites, a step that advocates hope will revitalize a waterfront hobbled by environmental problems from its industrial past.
Marc Morano does not think global warming is anything to worry about, and he brags about his confrontations with those who do. For example, Mr. Morano said he once spotted former Vice President Al Gore on an airplane returning from a climate conference in Bali. Mr. Gore was posing for …
Only a year ago, all the stars appeared to be aligned for American farm exports. China and other developing countries were fattening up growing herds of cattle on American corn, and they were importing record amounts of foods to meet the appetite of their expanding middle classes. A drought in …
The United States should provide Pakistan with coal-fired technology for electricity generation to cope with its ever-increasing demand for power, which is direly needed for sustainable economic and agriculture growth. The demand was raised by founder Chairman Pak-US Business Council and VP SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Iftikhar Ali …
Against the backdrop of the global financial and economic crisis, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has forecast a slowdown in growth in the developing economies of the region to 3.6% in 2009, from an estimated 5.8% in 2008. In its latest annual …
TWO years of high-priced imports in 2006 and 2007, one year of record output at 78.5 million tonnes and now, slam dunk into subsidised exports of massive central stocks. The United States department of agriculture
U.S. climate negotiators here gave the first broad hints of a new policy on global warming, but they provided few specifics, noting that a more detailed proposal would be submitted this month. Jonathan Pershing, deputy special envoy for climate change, said in a final news conference here Wednesday that the …
