The price-nutrition dynamic plays out differentially in the developed and developing worlds. In the former, as a number of studies have noted, fast food constitutes a much greater proportion of the diet of the poor.

Energy: Could new techniques for producing ethanol make old-fashioned trees the biofuel of the future?

the us environment agency recently slapped a fine of us $1.5 million on the agro-giant Syngenta Seeds Inc for selling seed corn that contained a genetically engineered pesticide. On December 21,

>> Abul Hussam, a chemistry professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, was awarded the Grainger Challenge Prize for Sustainability. The Bangladesh-born US citizen was awarded by the

Environmental studies may no longer be a part of the US forest management plans. The United States Forest Service recently deci

J&K project through: The Jammu and Kashmir High Court recently granted a stay on a decision by the state government to cancel a contract for the 1,200-MW Sawalakote hydroelectric power project. The

Climate Change

a mathematical model developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, us, may have an answer to medical problems like osteoporosis, joint hyperextensibility and scurvy. The

Pollution

researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, us, examined data on chemical toxicity and have identified 202 industrial chemicals that they say are

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