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Against all odds, there is still hope that Congress will produce a halfway decent farm bill, one that increases spending for underfunded programs like food stamps and conservation while decreasing subsidies to rich farmers who have never had it so good. The reason for hope is President Bush,
The government on Thursday predicted an unprecedented jump in the export of agricultural goods, while demand for corn-based ethanol continues to push prices for soybeans and wheat to new records.
The government on Thursday predicted an unprecedented jump in the export of agricultural goods, while demand for corn-based ethanol continues to push prices for soybeans and wheat to new records.
EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson on Friday kicked off a three-day mission in China amid simmering tensions with the growing Asian economic giant.
During the trip Mandelson, who has made relations with China a top priority in the EU's trade policy, is to meet for the first time with his new Chinese counterpart, Commerce Minister Chen Deming, his office said in a statement.
FOR a decade Europe has rebuffed efforts by biotechnology firms such as America's Monsanto to promote genetically modified crops. Despite scientific assurances that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are safe for human consumption, and a ruling by the World Trade Organisation against national import bans in the European Union, many Europeans have yet to touch or taste them.
WAYNESBORO, Georgia, Jan 14 (IPS) - Residents and environmental activists are in a bitter dispute with large U.S. energy corporations and the federal government over the safety of nuclear power, as more than a dozen corporations plan to, or have filed, paperwork to open new nuclear power plants, primarily in the U.S. South.
SAN DIEGO, California, February 12, 2008 (ENS) - There is a 50 percent chance Lake Mead, a key source of water for millions of people in the southwestern United States, will be dry by 2021 if the climate changes as expected and future water use is not limited, warn researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California-San Diego.
CERRO LINDO - Vast mines in Peru and Chile that supply the world with crucial metals have started to pump water from the Pacific Ocean high into the Andes Mountains because of chronic water shortages exacerbated by climate change.
SANTA ROSA - Chile is suffering its worst drought in decades, and the government is handing out emergency drinking water along a quarter of the Andean nation's length as wells dry up.
Farmers in small towns in south-central Chile have lost crops and livestock in the drought blamed on the weather phenomenon La Nina.
SACRAMENTO, California, February 21, 2008 (ENS) - A secure water supply for California in the face of climate change and a court order to retain water in the Delta for an endangered fish were on the table today as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger hosted a meeting with U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein of California.
Make no mistake -- the environment is a hot topic in the media today.
Gray wolves in the northern Rockies will be removed from the endangered species list after a 13-year restoration effort that helped the animal's population soar, federal officials said Thursday.
Aquatic invasive species are impacting our lives. In case you hadn't noticed, Phil Moy, fisheries and non-indigenous species specialist at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant, has a way of making the point.
Wes Rutt looks around Larimer County and sees a long-term solution to the country's energy woes growing out of the ground.
But he's not looking at corn or switchgrass or even sugar beets, which are all being investigated as alternative fuel sources.
What Rutt sees are trees.
The U.S. Forest Service's plan for targeted logging in the Medicine Bow National Forest is a knee-jerk reaction which will do nothing to stop the spread of pine beetles, a Laramie-based conservation group says.
But a timber industry spokesman said logging should be part of a long-term strategy to improve forest health.
China expressed regret on Thursday at reports the U.S. Olympic team would bring its own meat for the Beijing Games over concerns of drugs tainted food, and said it could guarantee safe supplies.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Climate change threatens the human rights of millions of people who are at risk of losing access to housing, food and clean water unless governments intervene early to counter its effects, experts said on Tuesday.
Plymouth City Hall rarely sees such a crowd.
But this week thousands of people parked their cars up, down and around Plymouth Boulevard and formed a line through the lobby and out the door.