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. …
marine life stirs oceans enough to affect climate, says a study by scientists of the Florida State University. Movement of winds and water has a bearing on climate. Previously, it was thought that the difference in temperature resulted in the movement of water and hence different climatic conditions, but the …
The Pacific Gas and Electric Co (pg&e), California's biggest natural gas company, has announced plans to buy natural gas generated from cow manure in the state dairy farms to fuel its power plants. The move follows California's new state law related to global warming under which state utilities are required …
The us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) has slapped European energy giants Royal Dutch Shell Plc and bp Plc with a combined fine of us $1.5 million on charges of distributing petrol that did not meet the country's legal pollution standards. The usepa sets standards for petrol and diesel under the …
us President George W Bush recently signed a new national space policy, which claims that the nation has the right to deny access to space to anyone hostile to its national interests. "The us will preserve its rights, capabilities and freedom of action in space... and deny, if necessary, adversaries …
Ganga Action Plan: Expressing concern over the lack of proper implementation of the Rs 900-crore Ganga Action Plan, the Supreme Court has sought a status report from the Union environment secretary on the cleaning of the river. The direction came from a bench headed by Chief Justice Y K Sabharwal, …
new periodic table: A recent report raises the possibility of a new periodic table of elements. Some nanoscience researchers have likened the minuscule particles they are making
• Animal rights activists are up in arms over a Halloween contest in New York which offers customers free entry if they eat a live Madagascar hissing cockroach. The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has denounced the contest. "Insects do not deserve to be eaten alive for …
the Gujarat government is planning to set up a water regulatory commission to monitor and regulate water supply and sewerage services, rationalise tariffs, curb subsidies and promote water conservation, as envisioned in the Gujarat Water Regulatory Commission Bill (gwrcb), 2006. The bill is expected to bring clarity to the roles …
Pesticide honcho for top green job A former president of a pesticide manufacturing company has been nominated as a regional head of the US Environmental Protection Agency. In the second week of October, Elin D Miller, former president of the North American division of Arysta LifeScience was named to head …
According to a study by scientists at Tufts University, Boston, colas can cause osteoporosis, the bone-ailment that afflicts over 300 million women in India. They found that intake of cola is associated with low bone mineral density (BMD), which then leads to osteoporosis. Osteoporosis reduces bone density and affects its …
in 2004, the British medical journal Lancet published a study conducted by researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University of Nursing, usa and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad, Iraq. More than a hundred thousand Iraqis had died due to war-related causes in the year following the invasion of their country …
India witnesses hotter summers, shorter winters. Shape of things to come? Carbon dioxide accumulating in the atmosphere is held as one of the primary reasons for glaciers melting but it could also be wreaking havoc with the climate. The projected rate of warming is much higher than the observed changes …
Trade secrets protection has acquired increased significance in the present scenario especially in view of the opening up of the world market and enhanced competition worldwide. Moreover, the fact that trade secret protection is increasingly being preferred over patent protection as a method for protecting undisclosed information has added to …
Who is now pushing for the use of pesticide ddt ( dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane ) in its malaria control programme , which the industrialised countries like the us banned 30 years back. Following the recommendation, meant particularly to target developing countries like Africa, the us government has said it is prepared to …
The us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) has recently approved new air pollution standards, promising cleaner air to all Americans. Health and environmental groups, however, say the revised rules are too weak to protect against lung and other pollution-related diseases. Earlier, in December 2005, the agency had proposed to reduce the …
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law, a ground-breaking global-warming initiative that slaps the us 's first-ever cap on greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions. This is in sharp contrast to George Bush's inaction on climate change, particularly his refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol. California will have to reduce ghg …
biofuel promise: Scientists have completed the first genome sequence of the black cottonwood, a tall and fast-growing poplar tree. Researchers have identified more than 45,000 protein-coding genes. These genes could be specifically selected through traditional plant breeding to efficiently produce the kind of cellulose needed to make biofuel production cost-effective …
when domesticated honeybees interact with wild native bees, they are up to five times more efficient in pollinating sunflowers than when native bees are not present, claims a study by a pair of researchers at the University of California (uc, Berkeley, and uc Davis. "Until now, we've thought that honeybees …
