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. …
Politicians do more to deplete water than provide people a sustained supply At the recent meeting of the World Water Commission in Stockholm - set up last year with the support of several governments and United Nations' agencies - to develop a vision for water management in the next century, …
russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( cis ) are working with the United Nations Environment Programme ( unep ) to dispose of toxic wastes in an environmentally-sound manner. At two separate meetings held in July, experts from the cis and a number of organisations met …
many institutions formed by human societies are designed so that they can function only when a prescribed minimum number of members are present. Familiar instances are parliaments and boards of management. The idea, presumably, is to ensure that a handful of individuals do not hijack the institution. Curiously, cellular and …
as the mighty river Rhone surges through eastern France, water shortage is far from anyone's mind living on the banks of the river. Along its 500-mile route, it is fed by many tributaries until the river spills, largely untapped, into the Mediterranean Sea. But along the same sea, scarcity of …
environmental management demands two things: environment-friendly technology and environment-friendly behaviour; in other words, technological change and behavioural change. In fact, behavioural change lies at the heart of environmental management because even technological change is not possible without behavioural change. For example, environment-friendly technologies may actually be much more expensive than …
usa : The state of Arizona is moving towards a unique groundwater banking system. Entities that recharge groundwater receive credit for the amount recharged, which they can then sell to groundwater users. The Groundwater Management Act ( gma ) has established a goal of zero groundwater mining by the year …
increasing water shortages in the world may lead to global hunger, civil unrest and even war, according to a new study by Sandra Postel, director of the Global Water Policy Project and senior fellow with the Worldwatch Institute, usa . Postel warns that unless immediate steps are taken, water shortage …
not very long ago, scientists disproved the widely held belief that it is not curry, worry and hurry that cause stomach ulcers but the wily bacterium Helicobacter pylori . This germ has since been implicated in a wide variety of gastrointestinal diseases from stomach inflammation to ulcers and even cancer. …
Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory have made a thermonuclear fusion reactor that, they claim, can fit on a laboratory bench. The reactor consists of a femtosecond laser (femtosecond is a million-billionth of a second) that hits laser pulses at clusters of deuterium atoms. The cluster explodes because of the …
oil company bp Amoco Plc has said that it has commissioned an independent audit and verification of its greenhouse gas emissions as part of its goal to cut such emissions to 10 per cent below 1990 levels by the year 2010. An independent team would verify bp Amoco's emissions and …
warming oceans are choking off marine life at an alarming pace and shrinking food supplies for people and other creatures dependent on the seas, according to a report by two environmental groups. The report, released by the Washington-based World Wide Fund for Nature ( wwf ) and the Marine Conservation …
it is not only humans that have understood the importance of sticking together for success. For long we have known that animals also keep together for survival. But few expected that tiny microbes also adopt this strategy to ward off the efforts of drugs and doctors to finish them. Now …
Scientists at the Bell Laboratories in USA have developed a tiny, pyramid shaped microphone directly on a silicon chip. This microphone is about 100 micrometres in size. The researchers have built a minature radio-frequency filter (like those used in cell phones) and another component called an inductor. The three components …
india is facing an acute water shortage, and various attempts are being made to overcome the problem. One such effort was made by the government of India when it set up a Hydrology Project in 1996. To support the project the World Bank made available a loan of us $162 …
kazakh foreign minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev played down concerns that China's plans to siphon-off water from the Irtysh river would cause economic and ecological damage in the ex-Soviet republic. China revealed that it planned to build a canal in the far northwest of the country, diverting water from the Irtysh, a …
Tissue engineering may open the way for bladder replacement in patients who have lost their own bladder due to some disease. In a scientific breakthrough, tissue engineers have reconstructed the urinary bladder of a dog. This was done by extracting cells from both the outside and the inside of the …
What is the state of groundwater in India? India's groundwater is not in a very good state. The annual recharge of water is far less than what is consumed. The situation is more alarming in urban areas due to population pressure and industrial growth, which in turn have led to …
