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 Obama administration wants to reduce oil consumption, increase renewable energy supplies and cut carbon dioxide emissions in the most ambitious transformation of energy policy in a generation. But the world
Washington: Scientists claim to have made a major breakthrough which could stop patients rejecting organ transplants, without using immunosuppressants. An international team, led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, has in fact discovered a method of adjusting the immune system for just long enough to receive a tissue transplant …
Steps President Barack Obama has taken on climate and clean energy have shown that the United States is getting ready to lead the world in fighting global warming, a White House official said on Tuesday. "The administration is signaling to the rest of the world that the United States is …
India urged rich nations against applying a carbon tariff on steel and other imports, on the sidelines of UN climate talks in Bonn on Tuesday. Both U.S. and European Union policymakers have considered penalising imports of products such as steel and cement, whose manufacture generates a lot of carbon emissions, …
Moves by the United States to provide more cash instead of commodities to fight a growing world food crisis are welcomed, but more is needed, a U.N. World Food Program (WFP) official said on Tuesday. "Just because food prices have come down doesn't mean the crisis is over," said Allan …
An ice bridge which had apparently held a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place during recorded history shattered on Saturday and could herald a wider collapse linked to global warming, a leading scientist said. "It's amazing how the ice has ruptured. Two days ago it was intact," David Vaughan, a …
A decade-long decline in the ice covering the Arctic Sea is continuing, according to new U.S. data, and other measurements give fresh indications that the area's ice cap is thinning as well. Acting like a giant mirror, the Arctic sea ice helps cool the planet by reflecting solar radiation back …
Businesses must not sink money into high-carbon infrastructure unless they are willing to lose their investments within a few years, the US lead negotiator on climate change has warned. In the Obama administration's starkest rebuke yet to industry over global warming, Todd Stern, special envoy for climate change at the …
This recent study conducted by Professor David Rich and colleagues from the School of Public Health in Piscataway, New Jersey, found that exposure to traffic pollution could affect fetal development and lead to an increased chance of having a small baby. This study suggest that ambient air pollution, perhaps specifically …
"We want to be in (the new UN climate pact), we want to be pragmatic, we want to look at the science," said Jonathan Pershing, the head of the US delegation, during the talks on cutting greenhouse gas emissions in Bonn last week. So how will the Obama administration reconcile …
Infant mortality has been declining slightly in the United States. But 28,000 children under the age of 1 still die every year. The main reason for the high rate is preterm delivery, and there was a 10 percent increase in such births from 2000 to 2006, according to recent figures …
Arctic sea ice, a key component of Earth's natural thermostat, has thinned sharply in recent years with the northern polar ice cap shrinking steadily in surface area, government scientists said on Monday. Thinner seasonal sea ice, which melts in summer and freezes again every year, now accounts for about 70 …
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday urged tighter controls on cruise ships and tourists in Antarctica to prevent further environmental damage to the fragile region. Addressing an international meeting on both the Antarctic and the Arctic, Clinton said as tourism increases to Antarctica there must be more regulations …
The Empire State Building is going "green" in a model project that will save about US$4.4 million a year on energy. Completed in 1931, the Art Deco building immortalised in the film "King Kong" has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders …
Whale sharks are a declining species for which little biological data is available. While these animals are protected in many parts of their range, they are fished legally and illegally in some countries. Baseline biological and ecological data are needed to allow the formulation of an effective conservation plan for …
President Barack Obama set out his vision for ridding the world of nuclear arms on Sunday, declaring the United States ready to lead steps by all states with atomic weapons to slash their arsenals. Delivering a speech given new urgency by North Korea's rocket launch hours earlier, Obama said the …
Opinions in Europe and the United States on how to battle climate change are converging, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Sunday. "We welcome the steps taken by the new American administration and the increasing convergence between the European and US position on that matter," he told reporters …
