In the realm of consumer safety, minimum standards form a critical safety net that allows businesses and regulators alike with necessary guidelines. From our food and medicines, railroad tracks to bicycle helmets, crayons to cribs,…
Bees threatened by indiscriminate use of pesticides
Widespread use of agrochemicals poses risks for food security and has alarming consequences for the environment and economy, writes Rodrigo de Oliveira Andrade.[SÃO PAULO] With an estimated 75 per cent of human food dependent on…
Worlds largest frog moves heavy rocks to build…
The goliath frog, the world’s largest known frog species, sometimes moves large stones and rocks weighing more than half its weight to create dammed ponds on sandy riverbanks to serve as nesting sites, a new…
Trump Administration Makes Major Changes To Protections For…
A bald eagle prepares to take off from a pine tree in Pembroke Pines, Fla. The eagle population rebounded after protections put in place under the Endangered Species Act. Wilfredo Lee/AP hide caption toggle caption…
University bans hamburgers to tackle climate change
Image copyright Goldsmiths Image caption The changes will come into force in September A university is banning the sale of burgers to try to fight global warming. Goldsmiths, University of London, is removing all beef…
Is India on Track to Beat the Perfect…
Aid, Asia-Pacific, Climate Change, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Energy, Environment, Featured, Food & Agriculture, Global, Headlines, Regional Categories, Sustainability, TerraViva United Nations Food & Agriculture The marginal farmer who depends solely on rain irrigation…
Can we really protect natural habitats to offset…
In the forests of northern Sweden, a major train line cuts through land originally protected for migratory birds – so new seasonal wetlands have been established for the birds nearby. In southern Uganda, a huge…
New monkey species discovered in rapidly-deforested area of…
A new species of marmoset has been discovered in the south-west of Pará State in Brazil in an area of the Amazon that has suffered extensive illegal logging and agricultural incursion. According to the researchers,…
Land Degradation Jeopardizes Ability to Feed the World
Africa, Climate Change, Combating Desertification and Drought, Development & Aid, Environment, Featured, Headlines, Population, Sustainability, TerraViva United Nations Opinion Ibrahim Thiaw is UN Under Secretary General and Executive Secretary to the UN Convention to Combat…