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. …
Oil and automobile giants love to hate California for its stringent norms. Now they have one more reason to do so. Lawmakers in this us state are promoting a bill that would eliminate several sports utility vehicles (suvs) from California's 73,000-strong state-owned fleet. The ban would extend only to purchases …
Some senior Democrats have alleged that the White House has doctored sections of a report authored by the us government's Environmental Protection Agency (epa) that contained references to global warming. The document is said to have been tinkered with to toe us President George W Bush's line that global warming …
Steamrollering objections from lawmakers of various coastal states, the us senate recently approved a plan to survey oil and natural gas deposits beneath the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Even as supporters of the idea claim the country has a right to know the extent and nature of its energy reserves …
The United States Supreme Court will decide soon whether Los Angeles and other California counties can go beyond the federal Clean Air Act to impose tougher emission norms for city buses, airport shuttles, taxis and other vehicles. The court has agreed to hear an appeal from oil companies and diesel …
USA Neither the World Bank nor the us and the United Nations (un) are popular around the world. While there is still some hope of the World Bank being viewed favourably in the international community, the us drastically needs to do something about its image abroad. These were the findings …
another theory has implicated a commonly used veterinary medicine for the large-scale disappearance of vultures from the Indian sub-continent. The theory proposed by Lindsay Oaks of the Washington State University, usa, however, raises more questions than it answers. Ornithologists estimate that more than one lakh vultures have disappeared in India …
The Bush administration's agenda aims to savage the United Nations, destroy the foundations of an emerging global community and ignore increasingly shrill alarms from an overstressed natural world. It is manifested in us attempts to sabotage constructive efforts in environmental negotiations, as Anju Sharma points this out in "Shucks & …
Clearly, a cat's waste is an otter's poison. Southern sea otters in their prime are dying in huge numbers off the California coast in the us due to a mysterious disease that marine biologists think can be linked to cat faeces in the sewage dumped into the ocean. Scientists at …
sars (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) is here to stay. So countries are now applying for patents on the sars virus . The ones seriously trying to cash in are the us Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc), University of Hong Kong's commercial arm Versitech Limited and British Columbia Cancer …
It's profit at any cost for ExxonMobil. The oil giant's shareholders voted overwhelmingly in Dallas, Texas, against proposals dealing with renewable energy and global warming. In fact, the company's chief executive and chairperson, Lee Raymond, stated that profits must take precedence. "We won't jump on the bandwagon just because others …
The us house of representatives has passed a controversial bill that will increase forest thinning on eight million hectares of federal lands. The step has been taken on the pretext of better management of federal lands to reduce the threat of wildfires. Critics argue this is a million-dollar giveaway to …
Sierra Club usa Sierra Club has come out with an ad that goes "1903-2003 A Century of Innovation...except at Ford.' Automobile manufacturers Ford are a hundred years old. To mark the occasion, they have come out with a new logo that they hope will see them through the next century. …
orissa might well be at the receiving end of one of Chhattisgarh chief minister (cm) Ajit Jogi's pre-poll sops meant to benefit his own states's forest dwellers. With elections on the anvil in Chhattisgarh, Jogi has announced a procurement price of Rs 5 per kilogramme (kg) of sal seeds from …
In perhaps the first case of its kind, a US farmer has been handed out a prison sentence for saving transgenic cotton seeds sold by Monsanto Company. The company prohibits growers using its products from employing the age-old practice of saving seeds from one crop to plant the next. A …
in all grandeur, the Bush administration has proclaimed that it will discontinue the practice of valuing young lives more than the old ones for computing the cost and benefits of pollution controls. The practice, nicknamed
A recent study has exposed the Bush administration's flagrant disregard for environmental laws. The research reveals that the present us government has systematically tried to undermine the National Environmental Policy Act (nepa), considered the Magna Carta of us policy on green issues. The study, undertaken by activist group Defenders of …
fifty years ago, on February 28, 1953, two young men walked into the Eagle, a dingy pub in Cambridge, and announced that they had discovered the secret of life. James D Watson and Francis Crick had found that the dna was the key to evolution. Like many others, Crick's wife, …
