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. …
Impatient with the pace of national governments in fighting global climate change, 13 US state governors joined counterparts from six other countries on Wednesday to pledge cooperation to curtail Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions. The declaration, issued by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, capped a two-day climate change summit he hosted in …
A strong earthquake of 6.2 magnitude and at a depth of 30 miles (48 km) struck Panama near the Costa Rica border overnight, the US Geological Survey said on Wednesday. The quake hit 35 miles (56 km) west southwest of David, Panama, at 1:11 a.m. local time (0611 GMT). The …
This report assesses the key drivers, environmental pressures and some impacts from the production and consumption of energy, taking into account the main objectives of the European policy on energy and environment including: security of supply, competitiveness, increased energy efficiency and renewable energy, and environmental sustainability. The report addresses six …
US oil demand has fallen 5 per cent this year - the biggest drop since 1981 - according to new figures which underline changing American attitudes towards energy use. The American Petroleum Institute, the national oil and gas trade organisation, said yesterday all big petroleum products, including petrol, distillate, jet …
President-elect Obama showed his enthusiasm for the Poznan Conference and promised to mark a new chapter in American leadership on climate change, while addressing the opening sessions of the Global Climate Summit in Los Angeles. He emphasized on development of clean energy future, creation of new green jobs and reaching …
Barack Obama said on Tuesday the United States would "engage vigorously" in climate change talks when he is president and pledged, despite the financial crisis, to stick to plans to reduce emissions sharply by 2020. The Democratic president-elect, who regularly criticized the Bush administration's attitude toward global warming, reiterated his …
A Japanese firm recalled eight million bottles of US mineral water on Monday after consumers complained it smelled like insecticide and medicine. The case is the latest food scare in Japan, where consumer confidence has been shaken after several people complained of becoming ill from eating Chinese-made dumplings containing insecticide …
The Environmental Protection Agency Monday increased the amount of renewable motor fuels, mostly ethanol, required to be sold in the United States next year. The higher standard is required by a law that boosts the use of renewable fuels steadily each year to 36 billion gallons by 2022 to help …
The average US retail price for gasoline is closing in on $2 a gallon after falling another 15 cents over the last week to the lowest level since March 2005, the US Energy Department said on Monday. The national price for regular unleaded gasoline fell for the ninth week in …
ANALYSTS have long maintained that US and China are the two main actors that must come together in order for a global deal in climate change to be reached. With US in recession, and China growing slower than expected, India may arguably emerge as the third required stakeholder in the …
Meet Calls For Coordinated Fiscal Stimulation TK Arun WASHINGTON THE G20 summit on financial markets and the global economy concluded on Saturday with the usual m
When Barack Hussein Obama occupies the Oval office on January 20, 2009, he may go there with a strong India connection that has guided him through his formative years as a freshman senator
Thomas Friedman, the three-time Pulitzer prize winner and foreign affairs columnist of The New York Times, built a bonding with book readers and avid students and followers of the international politics with his 2005 bestseller, The World is Flat. He now returns to his audiences with Hot, Flat and Crowded, …
The goal of the new incentives, which involve changes in how much fleet owners can charge drivers for the use of cars, was to make it more expensive for the owners to use the Ford Crown Victoria, the most common cab today, and more profitable to use hybrids like the …
Until recently, green investment funds were mostly a niche for individual investors. But now investing with the idea of improving the environmental actions of corporations, not just maximizing profit, is catching on among big pension funds and foundations, particularly in Europe and even in a few outposts in the United …
Candy, snacks, bakery products, pet food and other Chinese products that contain milk will be detained at the U.S. border until tests prove that they are not contaminated, the U.S. government announced. The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that it issued the alert because of concern about such products …
How germinated brown rice is good for diabetics ACROSS the world, the most conspicuous form of rice is the white, polished one. Diabetics are advised against eating this, and even brown rice, considered healthier, is advised only in moderation. Recent research has shown how the simple process of germination could …
A discovery changes the date of the first HIV infection though it was first isolated in the 1980s, it is generally accepted that the aids virus was rampant in the 1950s. A theory supports this premise: the disease spread when an experimental polio vaccine, cultured in primate cells, was tested …
Clemenceau stranded again: Citizens groups can now go to court against the French warship Le Clemenceau docking in the UK water for dismantling in the country. UK
