Air quality is a major challenge globally and is the single greatest environmental risk to human health. More than 90 per cent of the world’s population lives in areas that exceed the World Health Organization guideline for healthy air. In North America, Canada and the United States of America have …
Cows, sheep and goats may seem like innocent victims of humanity's appetite for meat, but when it comes to climate change they have a dark secret. Forget cars, planes or even power stations, some of the world's worst greenhouse gas emitters wander idly across rolling pastures chewing the cud, oblivious …
percy and louise schmeiser dragged biotech giant Monsanto to court in 2005 for contaminating their organic rapeseed farm in Canada. The couple was in Delhi recently to attend a conference on genetically modified organism or GMO. savvy soumya misra spoke to the couple, who are also the recipient of Right …
Problems associated with implanting animal organs in humans had seemed insurmountable, but new research could soon bring about the first clinical trials.
London, Nov. 24: Worried about impending water shortages due to climate change? Stop worrying, researchers have created a gadget that can be used to create drinking or irrigation water from thin air. The gadget, called WaterMill, has been developed by a Canadian company, Element Four, which is a marketing and …
Canada's Conservative government is interested in negotiating a climate change pact with the incoming administration of US President-elect Barack Obama, which looks set to take a tougher line on the environment than did President George W. Bush, an official said on Thursday. Obama's election could cause problems for Ottawa, since …
The APHENA (Air Pollution and Health: A Combined European and North American Approach) study is a collaborative analysis of multicity time-series data on the effect of air pollution on population health, bringing together data from the European APHEA (Air Pollution and Health: A European Approach) and U.S. NMMAPS (National Morbidity, …
Will Rotterdam Convention put controls over the killer mineral? PRODUCERS of chrysotile asbestos, India, Russia and Canada, will again try to scuttle any controls over the mineral under the Rotterdam Convention that allows countries to monitor and control trade and use of hazardous chemicals. Conference of parties (CoP-4) to the …
A bomb has damaged a natural gas pipeline in north eastern British Columbia, police said Thursday, describing the attack as the second of its kind in the same area in a week. Energy producer EnCana Corp later said it had stopped a small leak at a "field facility" about 50 …
VICTORIOUS: Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has been a strong advocate of a ban on smoking (Reuters) The verdict is clear. Smokers will no longer be able to light up whenever and wherever they please. The Centre
The unwavering predictability and scale of the tides in some parts of the world make them an attractive renewable energy source. Some estimates put the energy in the world's tides at as much as 1 million GWh per year, or about 5 per cent of the electricity generated worldwide, though …
The first chapter depicts the status of and the global trends in the biofuels industry and markets. It traces the history of the production programme of biofuels and the efforts to promote them in Japan, Canada, the European Union, the United States, Brazil, Latin America, South-East Asia, India, China and …
On 25 July 2008, WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy suggested compromise figures for the key stumbling blocks that threatened to derail the Geneva mini-ministerial. The document raises a number of questions with regard to market access for sensitive agricultural products.
