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 Conservation Reserve, which pays owners to idle fragile U.S. farmland, could become one of the largest carbon sequestration programs on private land, an Agriculture Department official said on Wednesday. Some farm-state lawmakers say efforts to reduce greenhouse gases could result in a pay-off in rural America because some agricultural …
Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will publish a follow-up to his global warming awareness bestseller "An Inconvenient Truth" on November 3. The book will be called "Our Choice" and will describe solutions to global warming, the environmental crusader and U.S. publisher Rodale Inc. said …
President Obama is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in London on April 2.President Obama is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in London on April 2. President Obama is scheduled to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in London on April 2. Related Stories: There are no good …
NEW DELHI: The Union Government is finalising locations for $150-billion U.S. nuclear power reactors promised to Washington during negotiations for ending India
Rich countries cannot afford to start a trade war with China and other developing countries that they believe are not doing enough to fight global warming, the Netherland's top trade official said on Wednesday. "Should we use a loophole under the WTO rules to impose trade restrictions on, for example, …
Gene patents are meant to encourage innovation, but in DNA diagnostics, they have stirred controversy. Amid worries and worst-case scenarios, there are few empirical studies to help form an accurate picture of how patents affect clinical genetic testing in the United States. The authors assembled eight case studies addressing the …
The only way to meet the increasing demand for fish is through aquaculture. Daniel Cressey explores the challenges for fish farmers and what it means for dinner plates in 2030.
Carbon dioxide finding could trigger U.S. clampdown The Environmental Protection Agency has sent the White House a proposed finding that carbon dioxide is a danger to public health, a step that could trigger a clampdown on emissions of greenhouse gases across a wide swath of the economy. If approved by …
PepsiCo Inc. is reducing the amount of plastic it uses to package its bottled water in the U.S., in the latest step by a beverage company to portray itself as environmentally conscious as bottled water sales slip. The new half-liter (16.9-oz.) bottle for Aquafina, the largest U.S. bottled water brand, …
WASHINGTON: India has cautioned the developed world, the US and European countries in particular, to avoid any attempt to sneak in "protectionism under green label" as this would hurt their global efforts to successfully meet the challenges posed by climate change. "We should not open doors for protectionism under green …
With India and the US approaching another crucial phase of negotiations over implementing the civilian nuclear agreement, India has flagged key issues that it wants to be addressed. Speaking at the Brookings Institution in Washington on Monday, the prime minister
This address note by Shyam Saran, India's special envoy on climate change at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington on 24 March 2009, conveys India's position on overcoming the twin challenges of Climate Change and energy security. This speech presented in Carnegie Endowment for International Peace meeting at …
Things seem to have come a full circle for a majority of Americans agriculturists who are going organic in a big way giving the go-by to conventional farming. Interestingly, this development has taken place at the global level when the Punjab Farmers Commission report has ruled out such farming on …
If scientists at Palampur are to be believed, sugar daddies of India are not eager to have organic alternatives to sugar in the market Dharamsala, March 22 All that is safe and good for the USA need not be good for India. While the Food and Drug Administration ( FDA) …
Washington: As momentum builds to rework the nation's food-safety system after a salmonella outbreak linked to peanuts, the drug industry is hoping for a happy side effect: faster approvals for new medicines. Drug industry advocates are quietly allying with some of their longtime critics pushing to split the Food and …
Two visiting space shuttle astronauts floated outside the ISS on Thursday to hook up a final set of solar panel wings to bring the orbital outpost to full power. Spacewalkers Steven Swanson and Richard Arnold spent six hours outside the station during the first of three spacewalks planned for the …
