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. …
Clearly betraying a strong pro-industry bias, the us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) has observed that the country's federal law bars suits from being filed against pesticide manufacturers when a product does not deliver what its federally approved label promises. The latest approach makes a blatant departure from the position epa …
researchers have recently discovered that one of the foremost victims of global warming is Africa's Sahel region. As per their study, the devastating drought that plagued the region in the 1970s and 1980s was caused by an increase in sea surface temperature, and not environmental degradation as was previously implied. …
gm on the platter: The US government has recently issued a notice to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for failing to comply with safety laws when it allowed offsprings of animals used in a genetic experiment to be sold as food. The pigs had genes from different species; the …
Exactly what is the new millenium all about? Some call it the time of the information technology (it) revolution. Some say it is globalisation turning mature. But, as one looks for ways to name the present, there pops up a phrase with a murky neologism in it: the new millenium …
Global warming and its impacts on climate have made climatologists study climate patterns of the past so that they can reasonably predict the weather of the future. Tree-ing analysis (dendrochronology), ice-core studies and historical records, lake sediments and speleothems (cave deposits) are used the world over to understand past climatic …
new Hampshire has become the first state in the us to take on oil giants such as ExxonMobil and ChevronTexaco over widespread contamination of its surface water and groundwater due to gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (mtbe). The state has sued 22 corporate entities, including mtbe manufacturers, refiners and …
• Halliburton, the us -based oil firm contracted by the us government to carry out reconstruction in Iraq, has asked its employees to contact newspapers and lawmakers to counter criticism of the company's no-bid contract in Iraq. In a memo titled "Defending Our Company,' Halliburton's president, Dave Lesar, said "Now …
president Bush recently toured usa's largest power plant and hailed it as a symbol of how the relaxation of clean air rules would boost both the economy and the environment. But an internal us government report may prove that he is wrong yet again. As per the report, us federal …
Fuel yourself with a glass of milk! This might well be the tagline of an advertisement for a range of packaged milk brands in Texas, us . Only, there would be an acrid tinge to it. High levels of perchlorate, a carcinogenic constituent of rocket fuel, have been found in …
Nepal's ministry of water resources has threatened the Bhote Koshi Power Company (BKPC), the first privately funded US power project in the country, with punitive action. Responding to the findings of a probe committee investigation, the ministry has decided to penalise BKPC for exceeding the authorised limit on installed capacity. …
Technology is the new buzzword in the field of entomology. The Oregon State University in the us has received a us $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a method for identifying insects. The plan is to use pattern recognition systems of the kind employed by a …
Ottawa resolution • All forms of asbestos should be banned in developed and developing countries • Canadian government must withdraw financial and political support to the asbestos industry • It should accept responsibility for the harm done to workers and communities in other countries where Canadian asbestos has been used. …
The us Environmental Protection Agency (epa) suffered a double whammy on September 15, when two separate lawsuits raising the same issue were filed against it in the federal district court for the Southern District of New York. The contention in both cases: epa 's inability to implement stipulated children-specific standards …
At Cancun (“snakepit” in Spanish), it was widely expected that negotiations on agriculture would make or break the talks. However, delegates were quick to point to two other issues as equally damaging: (a) the manner in which the Cotton Initiative was methodically dismissed by the US; and (b) the poisonous …
What kind of ripples were let loose by the breakdown of talks? Celso Amorim, Brazil's minister of external relations and leader of the G-22 group, felt that the lack of engagement (of developing nations) in the Singapore issues, which mirrored the lack of engagement (of the developed world) on agriculture, …
It may disregard its massive carbon emissions and try to explain away the greenhouse effect. But when it comes to defence equipment, the us is choosing to play it environmentally safe. The Pentagon is paying Minnesota-based Alliant, the world's largest ammunition manufacturer, us $5 million to develop lead-free combat bullets. …
The first day of a multilateral conference involving most of the world’s nations is usually spent on procedural matters. So it was at Cancun, Mexico, where the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held from September 11 to September 14, 2003. After the usual ceremonial inauguration, …
christine Todd Whitman, the former head of the us Environmental Protection Agency (epa), is in the hot seat for downplaying the health hazards faced by New York city residents after the September 11, 2001 attacks. A recent report of epa's inspector general indicates that Whitman assured the public that air …
simple remedy: Garlic not only keeps the vampires at bay, but also pests such as slugs and snails, which cause millions of dollars worth of damage in countries with cool or temperate climates. Scientists from the uk-based University of Newcastle upon Tyne have found that the pungent herb could act …
