Munduruku warriors. A proud indigenous society, today numbering 13,000, the Munduruku are making a defiant stand against the Brazilian government’s plan to build dozens of dams on the Tapajós River and its tributaries. Photo by Mauricio Torres Brazil has dynamited an...
Global Justice Ecology Project's Anne Petermann provided the weekly Earth Minute segment for the Sojourner Truth Radio Show on Wednesday, discussing how genetically engineered American Chestnuts will be bad for forests if released into the wild. The Earth Minute...
GE tree company ArborGen announced today that it is expanding its agreement with International Paper Brazil (IP). IP will be granting ArborGen additional access to the library of IP’s Eucalyptus genetic material. Eucalyptus is the most widely planted hardwood...
Public Radio International recently interviewed Hamisah, elected village leader of the Desahan Jaya district in Borneo, who is using "helpers", or spies, to keep tabs on the illegal logging trade in her region. One was a shopkeeper named Selamat, who works in a little...
This is yet another example of genetically engineered organisms having unintended and unpredictable impacts. It underscores the need to use the Precautionary Principle when dealing with all GMOs–forcing scientists and industry to PROVE these GMOs are safe BEFORE...
The Progressive Farmer unpacked the story of Del Monte's sweeter GMO pink pineapple, which recently gained FDA approval. Food Safety News' reporting on the development was critiqued for being surprisingly favorable toward the novel, consumer-focused food product. In...
Originally published at MongaBay.com: There are about 250 known human emerging infectious diseases, which are those that have recently appeared within a human population or those with an incidence rate or geographic range that is rapidly increasing. As noted by the...
Originally published by Rainforest Alliance What, exactly, is the relationship between deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions? The Rainforest Alliance breaks down the numbers for you—and explains our innovative approach to keeping forests standing. Among...
By Mike Gaworecki Originally Published at MongaBay.com Two new analyses show that companies reliant on agricultural commodities like beef, palm oil, pulp and paper, and soy have underestimated the risk of deforestation in their supply chains and are unlikely to...
As usual, the FDA is glossing over this new GMO and insisting it is safe to eat and no different from any other pineapple. They ignore the fact that the manipulation of genetic material in any organism causes unforeseen mutations or other impacts that cannot be...