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. …
James Fenton, ecological advisor to the Natural Trust of Scotland, says it is incorrect to say that human activity has destroyed the native woods of the Scottish Highlands. He adds that conservationists who are trying to recreate the ancient Caledonian pine forest by planting native trees risk destroying natural moorlands …
"W e are dealing with a different type of reality,' said Nicky Nzioki, a non-governmental representative from Kenya. "In the South, it would be almost impossible to put an economic value on water that flows by in a stream in a village, far away from developed areas.' China reflected this …
Industry and freshwater. "The challenge is to create the market conditions whereby sustainability will form the basis of competitiveness," Bausuano added. "Voluntary commitment cannot be a substitute to legislation," said Bjorn Stigson, president, WBCSD. "It can only complement an on-going process. In developing countries, voluntary effort will have to come …
Scientific institutions from Mexico and the United States are conducting an environmental impact study to see if a proposed salt mine in Baja California would disrupt one of the last grey whale breeding habitats in the world. The Mexican government and Mitsubishi Corporation want to construct a salt mine in …
Do industry and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) make strange bedfellows? Not anymore, apparently. In what could be a trend-setting partnership, UNEP and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) have come out with a report titled "Industry, Freshwater and Sustainable Development". Dubbed the "wake up call to …
in the far reaches of space, cosmic thunderstorms are generating windspeeds of more than 965 kilometres per second and temperatures hotter than the Sun, report scientists. Massive clusters of galaxies are colliding at supersonic speed millions of light years away, creating intense shock and violent turbulence. However,there will be no …
a simple filter based on sand and iron filings could effectively prevent millions of people being poisoned by arsenic in the water they drink. Nikalaos Nikolaidis, professor of environmental engineering as the University of Connecticut, usa , has created a filter that converts almost all the water-borne arsenic into insoluble …
The male brain shrinks more rapidly with age than its female counterpart, particularly in the frontal and temporal lobe regions. This was reported by C Edward Coffey and his team of the Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, USA. Because men are more prone to age-related memory loss than women, the …
The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration has fixed the orbit of its Mars Global Surveyor so that the spaceprobe can spend this summer clicking snaps of the Martian landscape, including the controversial "Face on Mars', spotted years back by the Viking mission. Other targets include the nostalgic Viking and …
Detection of electric charge has now been made simpler with the development of a new nanometer-scale mechanical electrometer. Consisting of three electrodes, a mechanical element which moves in response to the force experienced by the electrodes in the presence of charge and a displacement detector to monitor the motion. Developed …
high pressure carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) pumped from deep within the Earth may lead the rocks of the San Andreas in California to slide past each other and cause earthquakes. Scientists in California say that their theory could solve a puzzle that has troubled geologists for past so …
Noah saved the world from a flood. Today, an effort of similar proportions is required to deal with a different kind of problem: an unprecedented shortage of freshwater. In Noah's absence, governments of the world made an attempt in this direction in New York (April 15 to May 1) at …
a simple substitute made from ingredients found in a glass of wine and a milk bottle could have easily replaced the hazardous organic chemicals used in everything from paint thinners to solvents years ago, say scientists. But this substitute, till now, was far too expensive to be an economically-feasible alternative …
The doomsday predictions of wars being fought over water indicate the world's precarious position with regard to water. Though 70 per cent of the planet is covered by water, only 2.5 per cent of water is freshwater. Of this, nearly 70 per cent is frozen in the ice caps of …
at least one out of every eight known plant species on the Earth is threatened with exinction or nearly extinct, says the first international survey of plant diversity. Sixteen organisations have jointly worked for 20 years to complete the study. Habitat destruction and introduction of nonnative species have caused about …
federal biologists have released nearly a dozen Mexican gray wolves from chain-link pens into the remote ponderosa forests and meadows in the White mountains of eastern Arizona. The us Fish and Wildlife Service and state officials have taken steps for the first time to return 100 of the animals to …
the Environmental Protection Agency ( epa ) may soon enforce anti-insecticide laws in the us . At risk are crops worth billions of dollars and the lives of children who may die from cockroach-related asthma and fire ant bites. Disease-carrying ticks may also multiply. Organophosphate is an insecticide that kills …
for centuries, the human body clock has puzzled scientists. This "inner' clock, according to experts, drives our behavioural responses and is responsible for
