By Maximo Anderson Originally published at Mongabay.com XINGU RESEX, Brazil – On a blazing recent Amazonian afternoon, with the peak of the day’s heat beating down, Lindolfo Silva de Oliveira Filho, 68 – known as “Senhor Lindolfo” – unloaded a burlap sack full of...
From the World Rainforest Movement Bulletin: Years before governments adopted the Paris Agreement, international initiatives promising millions of hectares of reforestation and forest restoration were launched, supposedly to benefit the environment and local...
Via World Rainforest Movement bulletin: The 22nd annual UN climate meeting has come and gone in 2016, with governments celebrating the ratification of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, adopted at the UN climate meeting in 2015. In 1997, the US government did not...
When you dig beneath the surface of Donald Trump's pick to run the USDA, Sonny Perdue, all you find is a trail of slime. Exposed for what he really is, a shill for the big-ag and factory farm industry, he is a testament to the depth of systemic corruption running...
The nation’s first GMO apples will go on sale in ten Midwestern stores beginning in February. The Golden Delicious apples, sold sliced in plastic pouches, have been genetically modified not to brown for three full weeks once sliced, according to Organic Authority....
Previously published by GlobalVoices.org. This post originally appeared on Video Volunteers, an award-winning international community media organization based in India. An edited version is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement. Like in many parts of...
Via ECOTERRA: Until his arrest last year, one of the biggest forest destroyers in the history of the Amazon oversaw a large and sophisticated criminal network from his base in Sao Paulo’s upper class neighbourhood of Jardins. Wiretaps and field investigations by...
After Six Years USDA, GE Tree Company ArborGen Fail to Launch GE Eucalyptus New York (12 January 2017) - Tuesday, 17 January 2017, the eve of the new Trump Presidency, will mark six years since genetically engineered tree (GE) company ArborGen submitted a petition to...
Genetically Engineered Trees were the topic when Global Justice Ecology Project's Anne Petermann was a guest on the Post Carbon Radio show airing on KWMR-FM on Jan. 9. Petermann joined guests Claire Hope Cummings, an environmental journalist; and Mark Dowie, also...
Scott's creeping bentgrass is genetically engineered to withstand applications of Monsanto's Roundup. GE bentgrass escaped from test trials in Oregon in 2003 and are still uncontained after years of eradication efforts. The USDA is considering deregulating creeping...