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. …
california has become the first state in the us to ban trans-fats in food sold in restaurants and bakeries. Trans-fats, used to extend the shelf life of food products, have been linked to clogged arteries, diabetes, and other ailments. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the bill into law, according to which …
health sciences Hooked, genetically Researchers of the University of Michigan, usa, have cracked the genetic secrets of nicotine addiction. Whether or not one gets hooked to smoking is dependent on a particular variant of a gene
Why US auto makers are seeing red over a new law on green cars Going green is some- thing US auto makers will have to get used to. As per the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards passed by the House of Representatives in the Congress, every car in the …
The real danger of the Indo-US nuclear deal is that it formally recognises India as a legal nuclear weapons state and provides the platform for a closer integration of the Indian state and the economy with the global economy and power structure. This simple truth is evident to almost all …
Bloomberg / Mumbai September 26, 2008, 0:14 IST American relief programme suspends funding for three generic medicines. AIDS drugs made by Ranbaxy Laboratories won't be purchased under an American programme to supply medicines to developing countries after the US cited the company for violations in two of its plants. The …
During the seven somnolent years of the Bush administration, nearly every important initiative to deal with climate change has occurred at the state or local level
A program that helps poor countries reduce their vulnerability to floods, drought and other climate-related hazards will move to the University of Colorado, Boulder, under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, foundation and university officials said Wednesday. On the Dot Earth blog, Andrew C. Revkin examines efforts to balance human …
The U.S. agency that removed the gray wolf from the endangered species list in March has changed its mind and is asking a federal judge to void the decision. The request, by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, came after a U.S. District Court judge issued a temporary injunction against …
NEW YORK - Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmental crusader Al Gore urged young people on Wednesday to engage in civil disobedience to stop the construction of coal plants without the ability to store carbon. The former US vice president, whose climate change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" won an Academy …
When 10 states in the US Northeast launch the country's first cap and trade emissions market this week, their greatest service to the fight against global warming may be the mistakes they make. In the absence of guidance from the Bush administration on how to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, the …
The first mandatory US inter-state carbon trading system will open tomorrow with the auction of carbon permits to power -stations. It will be widely watched across the country for lessons in how a nationwide cap-and-trade system could function. The long-awaited Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI (pronounced Reggie), places limits …
Study published in Nature Geoscience in latest September edition says that climate change has been the main driver of global biomass burning for the past two millennia. Large, well-documented wildfires have recently generated worldwide attention, and raised concerns about the impacts of humans and climate change on wildfire regimes. However, …
D G Shah Secretary General IPA* A sense of doom is not at all warranted THE recent FDA action is a warning for several other companies that are already in the US market or intend to enter it in the near future. Just as they had learnt to emulate the …
US companies judge climate change a risk to their business, but lag global companies in setting targets to cut emissions, according to a global survey. "We're seeing the US play catch up here, but they've got a way to go," Paul Dickinson, chief executive of the Carbon Disclosure Project, which …
