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New research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the health risks from the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), found in many plastic and children's products, highlights the ...

Flooding and Drought -- the Effects of Global Warming? Source: Environmental Defense Network , August 20, 2002. This is one summer to remember: Europe is experiencing some of the worst flooding in a ...

OAK BROOK, IL - McDonald's Corporation today issued its first worldwide Social Responsibility Report. "Social responsibility is not a project or a program. Acting responsibly is the way McDonald's ...

This paper presents the role of transnational corporations (TNCs) in the Malaysian economy with specific attention to its environmental implications, and regulatory measures to shield harmful effects.

Payments for environmental services (PES) represent a new, more direct way to promote conservation. They explicitly recognize the need to address difficult trade-offs by bridging the interests of ...

The Government has decided to accede to the Paris Convention for the protection of industrial property and its facilitation treaty, the Patent Co-operation Treaty (PCT). This is expected to provide a ...

HANOVER, N.H. -- The Lyme Timber Co. discovered the profit potential in land conservation almost by accident. For nearly a decade after its founding in 1976, it operated like any other timber ...

The EPA has granted registration for the agricultural use of harpin, a Cornell-discovered protein that induces a plant to mobilize its own defenses against pathogens and insects; the protein also ...

Suggested protocol for beginning a woodland ginseng growing operation as well as a revised Visual Site Assessment from Cornell Cooperative Extension.

In line with a general trend in contemporary global governance, the WTO has been developing increased links with civil society groups. If conducted well, these contacts can make important ...