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. …
The federal district court in Portland, Oregon, has ruled that the US government's operation of four dams on the lower Snake River violates the Clean Water Act. The court ordered the US Army Corps of Engineers, that is responsible for the management of the dam, to protect the river's water …
people for Ethical Treatment of Animals (peta), a us -based non-governmental organisation (ngo), has intensified its campaign against the Indian leather industry. It organised a press conference on February 28, 2001 to collect signatures on a petition that urges prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee to enforce strict laws related to …
diamler Chrysler's decision to market the Unimog , a converted German military vehicle, as a sports utility vehicle (suv) in the us has been questioned by the Sierra Club, a us -based environmental organisation, and the Worldwatch Institute, a non profit public policy research organisation based in Washington dc . …
in a far-reaching decision, the us Supreme Court has ruled in favour of the us Environmental Protection Agency (usepa) to set clean air standards, rejecting the industry's arguments that the economic costs of regulation must be weighed against the health benefits. "The Supreme Court unanimously upheld the usepa efforts to …
the us has its way once again as an upcoming climate change conference scheduled for May-June 2001 has been postponed. Jan Pronk, president of the climate change conference held in November 2000 and environment minister of the Netherlands, announced that the negotiations would now resume sometime in the middle of …
The scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, US have found two new planetary systems. In one of the systems, 123 light-years from Earth, two planetary bodies are circling a star. One of the two may be the biggest planet known to us. The head of the planet-searching team, Geoffrey …
two separate groups of researchers, based in the us, have brought light to a halt. This could have an enormous impact on our understanding of how information is transmitted and stored. You may not exactly be able to catch light in your hand but it is now possible to trap …
engineers at Lucent Laboratories, in the us, have found a way to increase data carrying capacity of radio signals by six fold. The unprecedented growth in the use of communication devices has meant that the demand for carrying capacity or bandwidth is almost insatiable. Television, radio and mobile phone networks …
Two institutions in the us are working to comprehend how contaminants, toxic chemicals and other environmental factors affect the human genome. The Environment Genome Project (egp), sponsored by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (niehs) , based at North Carolina, us, is studying variations of certain types of genes …
Pre-flight genetic testing could help guard against flight-related deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Flight-related DVT occurs when a passenger's blood clots sitting in cramped conditions. The condition can be fatal if the clots reach the lung. Gillian Turner, a medical geneticist at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, says …
yeast growing on a medium can look beautiful. But some fungi can be dangerous. In the human body, they can coat medical implants with thin films causing serious complications in patients with hip and valve replacements. In fact, every year thousands of deaths can be traced to fungal infection formations …
a virus-like "replicon' that can like the hepatitis C virus (hcv) produce proteins has been created in the laboratory by a team led by Charles Rice at the Washington University in St Louis, us . Till now efforts to determine just how an infection develops and how to combat it …
antibacterial agents in liquid and solid soaps may create stronger bacteria instead and cause harm in the long run. This was revealed during a research survey done by Eli N Perencevich, a research fellow for infectious diseases at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, usa , and his …
A US ship laden with neurotoxic mercury on its way to India has been sent back to Port Said, Egypt, where it was stationed. This was result of strong protests by environmental organisations and the refusal of the Indian government to allow the toxic shipment to land on the country's …
An analysis carried out by the Environmental Energy Technologies Division of the Lawrence Berkley national Laboratory, based in US, shows that in the US office equipment used by the commercial sector consumes more than 70 per cent of the total electrical energy consumed. Use of electricity in residences has been …
the Republicans in the us Senate will soon introduce a legislation that includes a provision to open some parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, in northeastern Alaska, to oil and natural gas drilling. President George W Bush is expected to support the legislation. Opening the refuge to drilling was …
The Kyoto Protocol obliges industrialised countries to cut their overall greenhouse gas emissions by at least 5 per cent below 1990 levels in the period 2008-2012. Several provisions are laid out to achieve these reductions.Article 3.3 of the protocol allows countries to get credits for reducing carbon dioxide concentrations through …
