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. …
McDonald's has been hauled to court again. This time by a group of obese teenagers, who claim the us fast food giant is responsible for making them fat. Lawyer Samuel Hirsch has filed a lawsuit on their behalf in a Manhattan federal court. It alleges that McDonald's had intentionally misled …
WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE . USA A study conducted by the Worldwatch Institute has found that distances between the sources and destinations of food in the US and elsewhere in the world has grown by as much as 25 per cent. Researchers fear this reliance on a complex network could leave many …
populations of many fish may lose genetic diversity even if fishing were to be stopped now, claim researchers from the University of Washington, usa. The findings are alarming. Losing diversity of key genes would render fish populations less productive, and unable to adapt when faced with challenges like global warming, …
Prodigene Inc, a Texas-based biotechnology company, is at the centre of a row after its soyabean produce was found to be contaminated with genetically engineered corn grown earlier in the same field. The us government has ordered the company to destroy 500,000 bushels of soyabean, estimated to be worth millions …
a study conducted on a very large-scale once again proves that pesticide exposure at home increases the risk of leukaemia during childhood. This was the finding of a study conducted by researchers from us-based University of California, California department of health services and Stanford University School of Medicine, usa. During …
The North American Millers' Association (NAMA) has asked the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) to be exempted from a ban on methyl bromide. The chemical is used for fumigation in grain mills. Association members say that the ban would cost the industry more than US $60 million annually. However, scientific …
norway has withdrawn the permit issued to a carbon dioxide sequestration study following appeals from environmental groups such as Greenpeace Nordic and World Wide Fund for Nature, Norway. The permit for conducting the study was issued by Norway's pollution control agency. In an official statement Borge Brende, the Norwegian environment …
A coalition of a dozen environmental and citizens groups in the us has filed a lawsuit trying to halt a new chemical weapons incinerator scheduled to be fired up at the Anniston Army Depot, in Alabama, next year. The suit demanded that the us army undertake additional environmental studies before …
the 12th Conference of Parties (cop-12) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (cites), held in Chile between November 3 and November 15, breathed a fresh lease of air into wildlife management. It brought sustainable use and economic incentives back on the agenda. Three African states were allowed …
Is there a special need for a politics to protect the public domain? What might such a politics of intellectual property look like? The intellectual property scene today is just like the American environmental movement in the 1950s. A rag-tag bunch cared about the park system; there were hunters and …
In a novel approach to marine protection, a private company handed over 4,653 hectares along the bottom of the Great South Bay to an environmental organisation. The deal
scientists in Britain and the us recently shook hands. No big deal, one might think, but the men in question were 4,828 kilometres apart, connected only by the internet. In a technological first, two scientists
a widely used herbicide is making male frogs grow female gonads in the us midwest, according to a recent field study conducted by researchers from the University of California, usa. The finding could fuel the controversy over whether or not the chemical is one of the many possible reasons for …
as many as half the world's plant species may qualify as threatened with extinction under the World Conservation Union (iucn) classification scheme, indicates a new study. Conducted by Nigel Pitman of us-based Duke University and Peter Jorgensen of the Missouri Botanical Garden, the study indicates that the iucn Red List …
AMERICAN HEAT . By Donald A Brown . First edition . Published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. . Maryland . USA . 2002 Two friends - for security reasons, we call them F1 and F2 - met at Vigyan Bhavan, where the eighth round of talks on combating climate …
With the introduction of national standards for organic foods in the us, the fastest growing sector of American agriculture has received a major impetus. The new guidelines stipulate that all us producers selling more than us $5,000 worth of organic agricultural products must be certified by a us department of …
North Korea has finally acknowledged having a secret nuclear arms programme involving enriched uranium. The plan is in violation of the 1994 Agreed Framework deal under which the Communist state had promised to freeze its nuclear arms totally. It was supposed to eventually dismantle its nuclear programme in exchange for …
