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 emissions from the engines were within the set standards during the mandatory performance tests. But on the highway, the trucks spewed more pollutants. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other law enforcement agencies are investigating this issue. They suspect that the rate and emissions from the engines' exhaust …
global warming could lead to more than floods and inclement weather. It could facilitate the spread of tropical illness like dengue fever, scientists have warned. Researchers at the John Hopkins University in Baltimore, usa , used computer models to map the general circulation of the earth's weather patterns and determine …
The last time one hit us was around 65 million years ago. It wiped out the entire dinosaur population along with 70 per cent of Earth's other species and left behind a monster crater nearly 200 kilometres in diameter. Thankfully, history will not repeat itself, this time. On December 6, …
More dangerous than all the nuclear weapons of the world put together are these bombs in outer space. Huge rocks which form a crude circle between Mars and Jupiter in a part of the solar system known as the asteroid belt. There are 300,000 asteroids larger than 90 metres wide …
a plan to regulate the emission of particulate matter smaller than 2.5 micron (micron is one-millionth of metre), technically known as pm 2.5, is on the cards of the us Environmental Protection Agency ( epa ). The debate on implementation continues as critics and researchers battle over the issue. Very …
in february 1998, the epa proposed that regulations on drinking water quality standards for suppliers across the country be made available to the consumers. This would let consumers know the current state of water they drink, according to epa administrator Carol M Browner. The regulation will be finalised later this …
ford Motor Company and the us oil giant Mobil have announced a collaboration to improve fuel economy and cut emissions from cars through new technology. Mobil chairperson Lucio Noto and Ford chairperson Alex Trotman said that their strategic alliance has been aimed at launching initiatives that could lead to major …
across the us , bats are burned, beaten or buried alive by people who are ignorant of their role in the ecology. Bats eat agricultural and forest pests, and also serve as seed and pollen dispersers. About 70 per cent of tropical fruits in the us market are from plants …
the drug proscar has been shown to reduce the need for surgery to treat enlarged prostrate glands. In a new study, the men who took the drug required prostrate-reduction surgery only half as often as did those on dummy pills. Proscar, known generically as finasteride, is already one of the …
all shook up: Roche, which has one of the highest research spends in the pharmaceutical industry, has launched a big overhaul of its research strategy in a bid to slash costs and speed up drug launches. The move is expected to lead to job losses at its research centres in …
Very soon, most employers in the US could face curbs on their use of genetic tests of their employees. In a recent announcement, American vice-president Al Gore said that the government will push a law for genetic privacy. "The fear of genetic discrimination is prompting many of the Americans to …
By the end of this year, Lucent Technologies of New Jersey, USA, says that its optical fibres will be able to carry up to a jaw-dropping 400 billion bits of data per second. Although laboratory tests have produced similar, high-capacity optical fibres earlier, this is over five times the throughput …
Toy-maker Lego is introducing programmable bricks that can be used to control robots and other machines built using these blocks. Programs for the new RCX brick can be created on a personal computer using a special software and then downloaded into the brick. Each RCX unit works with built-in sensors …
Myriad Genetics, a noted biotechnology company based in Washington, USA, recently announced that it had been awarded a patent on 47 different mutations in the BRCA1 gene, abnormalities in which substantially heighten risk of such diseases as breast and ovarian cancer. According to Peter Meldrum, Myriad's president and chief executive …
In an effort to resolve the gridlock and restore the jobs of those employed in the timber industry, Bill Coates, supervisor at Plumas county whose political career has been supported by the timber industry, called a meeting between Tom Nelson, a forester in the lumber industry, and environmentalist Jackson in …
Communities all over California are trying to find solutions to the jobs-vs-the-environment controversy. In these efforts at community forestry, the qlg is not isolated. Bioregional councils have been established in northern California to promote partnerships in managing ecosystems across mixed ownership. There is the Lead Partnership Group, a coalition of …
Federal ownership and management of forests began with the Forest Reserve Act of 1891 (also known as the Creative Act) that created forest reserves to protect against excessive logging. In 1905, Congress established the fs under the department of agriculture. It was given the task of managing the national forests …
Of california's land area of 40.4 million hectares (ha), about 40 per cent (16 million ha) is classified as forest. The us Forest Service (fs) has classified about 42 per cent of these as timberlands (timberland is forest area that can produce more than 8.1 cubic feet per ha of …
government officials in the us have announced that wild Pacific salmon are nearly extinct. They have also put major urban areas on notice that millions of people may face disruptions and higher living costs if the fish is to be restored as the law requires. The proposed listing of at …
