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ROME -- The United Nations food summit sputtered to a close yesterday with a pledge to take "urgent" action on the global food crisis, but making no efforts to curb the rapidly expanding biofuels industry or quickly break down trade barriers.
ROME -- A world summit on hunger veered near collapse late Thursday when Latin American countries objected bitterly to a final, watered-down resolution designed to boost agriculture and control soaring food prices.
A UN summit vowed to halve global hunger by 2015 and take "urgent" action over the global food crisis, but only after going into overtime at a fractious summit in Rome.
Argentina, Venezuela and Cuba criticized a declaration hammered out by 180 countries at the World Food Summit in Rome yesterday, saying it failed to identify the true causes of rising food prices.
Forests in the interior western United States, the southwest, and Alaska are already being affected by climate change with increases in the size and frequency of forest fires, insect outbreaks and tree mortality. These changes are expected to continue, according to a new report issued Thursday by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program.
Half of Papua New Guinea's forests will be lost or damaged in just over a decade, speeding up local climate change, unless logging is dramatically reduced, a study released Monday found.
Registration is open for the fifth season of the award-winning View From the Lake boat trips. Water quality specialists from University of Wisconsin Extension and the University of Minnesota Sea Grant Program will board the L.L. Smith, Jr. with citizens and the research vessel's crew to explore Lake Superior.
ROME -- Outside the U.N. emergency summit on food here, protesters dressed as ears of corn. Inside, Bush administration officials Wednesday found themselves on the defensive on a wide range of U.S. policies, from biofuel production to genetic engineering and subsidies.
World leaders at a UN summit on the global food crisis sought Thursday to find a compromise on a common response to soaring food prices.
A U.N. summit on the global food crisis asked rich nations on Wednesday to help "revolutionise" farming in Africa and the developing world to produce more food for nearly 1 billion people facing hunger.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has launched an emergency program of 17 million dollars to respond to historically high food prices, FAO said on Wednesday.
Farmer and civil society leaders carrying out a peaceful action today in Rome, Italy at the FAO Summit on the Food Crisis were forcefully removed from the premises.
I consider Time to be one of the more forward-looking periodicals when it comes to the environment. But the editors messed up in this week's edition. The June 2 Time carries a breathless feature about the potential petroleum bonanza in Canada's tar sands.
Do you ever wonder how much of the water that we remove from the Great Lakes for use in everyday products such as food, ethanol, household chemicals or paper products, is not returned? Or what type of use is most likely to cause these losses?
Under pressure from regulators and competitors, Tyson Foods Inc. withdrew its antibiotic-free chicken label awarded by the Agriculture Department barely a year ago.
The company said in a news release late Monday afternoon that it was "voluntarily" withdrawing the label "due to uncertainty and controversy over product labeling regulations and advertising claims."
Kerio Valley, Kenya - The hungry people of Kenya's Kerio Valley had waited since dawn to be fed. They were not waiting for the thunder of aid trucks or the distant rumble of a cargo plane signaling a food drop.
WASHINGTON -- In presidential elections, the crucial farm vote has been reliably Republican. This year might be different.
GOP candidate John McCain's long track record opposing farm subsidies will likely hurt him in the November election, say farmers, lobby groups and academics.