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 world's second-largest passenger cruise line the Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd has been fined us $6.5 million for dumping oily bilge water and other pollutants into Alaskan waters. "What happened is inexcusable. The company should have been able to avoid such an accident,' ruled John Sedwick, a us district court …
Despite the opposition from political heads and hydropower companies against dam destruction, the emphasis in usa is firmly on restoration of salmon population, even if it means razing the dams. Environmental degradation by dams is also kept in check by monitoring the renewal of dam licenses and also by refusing …
Extinct species: Not only have salmon populations been decimated, but entire stocks have disappeared. Prior to the 20th century, the Columbia River in the us Pacific Northwest supported some 200 distinct stocks of the fish. Today, 69 stocks have disappeared with another 75 on the brink of total extinction. Moreover, …
In a country like the us , laws once framed are supposed to be implemented. An excellent example is the Endangered Species Act ( esa ). Adopted in 1973, the law was framed with the sole intention of saving species on the brink of extinction
The South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) is drafting a new strategy to formulate the nation's first comprehensive regulations for combating airborne toxic substances. The new regulations will force people who use diesel-run vehicles, especially trucks, to switch to alternative fuels. Diesel engines, and not factories, are responsible for …
smog sends 53,000 people to the hospital each summer and triggers more than six million asthma attacks in the eastern United States, according to estimates released by clean air activists. Smog created in the summer is called ground-level ozone, the main culprit in what environmentalists believe is a public health …
Hurricane Floyd, which lashed the east coast of the US recently has caused a tremendous growth of algae. Scientists from Carnegie University of Washington have found that the photosynthetic activity of phytoplankton off the coast of North Carolina increased five-fold in the four days after Hurricane Gordon in 1994. "The …
Astronomers in the us say that they have spotted a tiny moon orbiting an asteroid. The new moon, which is yet to be named, is circling the asteroid Eugenia. It was discovered with the help of a telescope based in Hawaii that used a specially deformed mirror to correct for …
A valuable lesson for biologists about evolution comes from frogs that have an eye in the back of their heads. It has been observed in fruitflies that a protein called Pax6 can trigger the formation of extra eyes, suggesting that it plays a key role in the normal development of …
how long can the world's energy resources sustain a population of six billion? According to Worldwatch Institute reports, consumption of resources are so high that the world will probably run out of resources by the next century. The depletion has led to an increase in heat-trapping atmospheric carbon at the …
Ecological awareness begins at home. It is perhaps with this view that environmentalists in London have planned a village of 90 energy-efficient homes which will use the surrounding environment reserves to meet their needs. According to a press release issued by the British Commission, New Delhi, no high-technology accoutrements that …
the us Environmental Protection Agency ( epa) has said that trucks, passenger vans and sport utility vehicles ( suv s) over 3,859 kg must slash their toxic emissions by over 90 per cent within 10 years. The epa 's proposal calls for the reduction in smog-causing nitrogen oxides and particulate …
a big chunk of Antarctica has been melting for thousands of years. This situation is likely to continue until it swamps millions of kilometre of coastland, scientists of the University of Maine said. But, surprisingly global warming is not the culprit. "During the last Ice Age, the West Antarctic Ice …
in an ambitious revival of exploration of Mars, two us spacecraft have approached the planet. One spacecraft has studied the atmosphere, prospects of water and observed weather through the seasons of a full Martian year (687 days). The second craft is on course for a landing on December 3 at …
it has come at a time when the us tobacco companies thought that they had successfully weathered the string of lawsuits by states and federal governments over the past two years. On September 22, the us Justice Department filed a huge civil lawsuit against them, alleging that cigarette smoking costs …
despite tremendous advances in the field of microelectronics, the material used in almost all electronic devices is still silicon. This is because no other material has the electrical properties of silicon, combined with the ease with which it can be fabricated into useful circuits. It is also true that the …
Obsolete computers are posing an environmental problem in developed countries, specially the US. With faster and better machines being available almost every year, the number of old computers and peripherals being discarded are generating a lot of trash. Now Coniglairo Industries, a company based in Massachusetts, has developed a lightweight, …
