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. …
Amid a host of problems for the world's oceans, last week brought a reminder that coral reefs, the sentinel species for measuring the health of the seas, are taking a beating. One-third of all coral reef species face extinction worldwide, reports the latest study, released by Science magazine, with more …
A flurry of imported measles cases has kindled outbreaks in 15 states and two cities that together have given the USA its largest case toll in a decade, health officials said Monday. Since January, doctors have reported 132 measles cases, just shy of the 138 reached in 1997, the Centers …
Getting a lot of exercise may help slow brain shrinkage in people with early Alzheimer's disease, a preliminary study suggests. Analysis found that participants who were more physically fit had less brain shrinkage than less-fit participants. However, they didn't do significantly better on tests for mental performance. That was a …
Bangalore, PTI: These cook stoves are now being made available in more than 700 villages in Karnataka and 300 villages in Tamil Nadu through a multi-tier distribution strategy. They will be introduced across the country in a phased manner. For rural women exposed to hazardous toxic emissions and smoke from …
US President George Bush signed off with a defiant farewell over his refusal to accept global climate change targets at his last G8 summit. As he prepared to fly out from his final G8 summit in Japan, he told his fellow leaders: "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter.' President Bush …
Environmentalists are seething after the administration of US president George W Bush delayed any decision on regulating greenhouse gases, likely leaving any substantive action to his successor. The Environmental Protection Agency issued a 588-page report Friday that cites
Prabir Purkayastha A close analysis of the draft India-IAEA safeguards agreement, and the restricted document GOV/1621, reveals that if it comes to the crunch, it is the provisions of the Hyde Act that will prevail. This is what is inbuilt in the agreement, the government's spin notwithstanding. Various commentators have …
Police are doing more patrolling on bikes here, while elsewhere across America small towns are taking unusual measures to rein in rising energy costs. One Connecticut town plans to put century-old dams back to work generating electricity, while other communities are telling workers to turn off their vehicles when stopped, …
By sending the draft safeguards agreement to the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency before facing a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha, the Manmohan Singh government has violated not just an assurance its External Affairs Minister gave the nation two days earlier but also the …
K. Venugopal Reviewing Progress: U.S. President George W. Bush with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the G8 summit in the resort of Toyako on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido on Wednesday. The two leaders discussed many issues, including the nuclear deal. Mr. Bush said "it was a …
Siddharth Varadarajan The government feels vagueness keeps international critics at bay. Following the formal withdrawal of Left support to the United Progressive Alliance, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and its three partners have issued a statement challenging the government's decision to keep the text of the safeguards agreement negotiated …
Vladimir Radyuhin Russian scientists deny that the Kyoto Protocol reflects a consensus view of the world scientific community. As western nations step up pressure on India and China to curb the emission of greenhouse gases, Russian scientists reject the very idea that carbon dioxide may be responsible for global warming. …
Siddharth Varadarajan New Delhi: Contrary to External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee's assurance that the process of finalising India's safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency would begin only after the United Progressive Alliance won a vote of confidence in Parliament, the government has given the go-ahead for the draft …
By JOSEPH COLEMAN Rusutsu (Japan) July 8: Leading industrial nations on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global warming but stopping short of tough, nearer-term targets. The Group of Eight countries, the United States, Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Britain, Canada …
Sapporo, Japan July 8: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to counter US pressure to commit India to a 50 per cent cut in greenhouse emissions when he meets US President George W. Bush on Wednesday by telling the Americans that developed nations should go first because they had created …
From the window of a Boeing, few countries are greener than Brazil. Since much of this vast territory in the heart of South America is still unpeopled and unblemished, it's not surprising that Brazil looks good against the backdrop of a mistreated planet. It ranks 34th of 149 nations in …
Global warming isn't just a problem of cars and smokestacks but of the chain saw, too. The phrase "carbon emissions" usually conjures images of coal-burning power plants or smog-enveloped cities. Less widely appreciated is the role of trees as a source of emissions. When a tree dies or a forest …
Decades of investment in civilian nuclear power puts france in the energy catbird seat. France ranks 10th in the EPI because of its supply of clean energy. Being poor in oil and coal might once have been considered a disadvantage, but not for France. Forty years ago necessity led Charles …
A global report card on nations doing the most, and least, to clean up the environment. Greens could learn a lot from Franklin Roosevelt about how to track imminent environmental disasters. It may seem hard to believe in this age of data overload, but on the eve of the Great …
No global climate change pact could be fruitful without including India and China, US president George Bush said on Sunday as leaders from G8 nations prepared to thrash out a long-term deal to face global warming. "I'll be constructive,' Bush said after talks with Japanese premier Yasuo Fukuda, but "we're …
