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. …
Airport expansion: A German court rejected an emergency appeal to stop construction work on a new runway and terminal at Frankfurt Airport, close to Kelsterbach Forest. Environmentalists and 13 towns had sued the state of Hesse to halt the expansion project for reasons ranging from nighttime noise to threat to …
Commercial interests determine content The oil we eat is essential for our body to function. We cannot do without it. Thus it is important to understand its chemistry. It is agreed that healthy oil is one which has less saturated fat, more monounsaturated fat (mufa) and polyunsaturated fats (pufa) is …
Where is the public in public health policy? Years ago, when this author studied policy making in public health at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, his teachers harped regularly on one point. They said public health is 90 per cent about people and just 10 per cent …
Connecting areas with the most stable climate and the greatest diversity of species has helped reveal which part of a forest has the highest biodiversity.
Cape Canaveral/Moscow: After the first high-speed impact between two intact satellites, a spokesman for Russian civilian space agency Roscosmos, Alexander Vorobyev, said,
Washington, At least 15 people were killed when a massive tornado ripped across the midwestern state of Oklahoma, flattening homes and upending cars, local media reported on Wednesday. The Oklahoman newspaper reported that the twister tore a half-mile swathe through the town of Lone Grove shortly before 7.30 pm (0130 …
NEW YORK: Barely a year after the U.S. Congress enacted an energy law to foster a huge national enterprise capable of converting plants and agricultural wastes into automotive fuel, the goals lawmakers set for the ethanol industry are in serious jeopardy. As recently as last summer, plants that make ethanol …
WASHINGTON - Climate change is pushing American birds northward, with some finches and chickadees moving hundreds of miles (km) into Canada, an Audubon Society study reported on Tuesday. Drawing on citizen observations over a 40-year period, the society's scientists found that 58 percent of 305 widespread bird species found in …
WASHINGTON - Two oil refiners in Wyoming and Kansas have agreed to pay a total of $141 million to settle air pollution violations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday. Frontier Oil Corp is set to pay a $1.23 million civil penalty and spend about $127 million on pollution …
WASHINGTON - There is enough support in the U.S. Congress to pass legislation requiring utilities to generate a portion of their electricity supplies from wind, solar and other renewable energy sources, the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said on Tuesday. The committee held a hearing on …
WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Monday pushed for more investment in solar and wind energy, saying the country that can make renewable energy sources price-competitive with traditional fossil fuels will become the economic superpower of the future. Obama, speaking at a townhall meeting in Elkhart, Indiana, said renewable …
UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is organizing a summit meeting on climate change next month where he hopes President Barack Obama will confirm a "sea change" in US environment policy, diplomats said. Several national diplomats and UN officials said they were aware of Ban's plan to invite Obama …
DETROIT: When Shai Agassi set out in 2007 to develop an infrastructure to service electric cars, circumstances were hardly in his favor. Gasoline was cheap, and big pickups and SUVs still ruled the road in the United States. While auto companies were working on alternative-fuel vehicles, they seemed destined for …
Kate Galbraith WIND AND solar power have been growing at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate under the green-minded Obama administration. But because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn, the opposite is happening: installation of wind and solar power is …
Curiously, the opening up of India's nuclear energy market has seen a simultaneous nuclear renaissance in the US and UK Nuclear technology titans the world over are vying for the $150 billion sweepstakes of India's nuclear power market now being pried open up by the US-India civil nuclear cooperation agreement …
Amidst the gloom enveloping the tourism sector, a positive development emerging is medical tourism. Many say that the recession in the US will turn out to be a boon in disguise for the sector. According to figures released by audit and consulting major Deloitte, the year 2007 saw about 450,000 …
WASHINGTON - The H5N1 bird flu virus, which has now sickened more than 400 people globally, is infecting birds and people all across China and is still a cause for serious concern, flu experts said on Tuesday. Recent cases are the expected winter seasonal surge seen for many types of …
