WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Organic Standards Board voted unanimously on Friday to update U.S. organic standards to exclude ingredients derived from next generation genetic engineering and gene editing. This recommendation to the US Department of Agriculture’s...
Via Field Liberation: https://www.facebook.com/DeWereldMorgen/videos/10154532054095469/ BELGIUM - At the end of the climate summit in Marrakesh, 20 activists from theField Liberation Movement planted a “permit to cut” in a field of GMO poplar trees...
Via the University of Washington: Major forest die-offs due to drought, heat and beetle infestations or deforestation could have consequences far beyond the local landscape. Wiping out an entire forest can have significant effects on global climate patterns and alter...
UN REDD is the official name for forest carbon offsets programs under the auspices of the UN Climate Convention. But before there was REDD, forest carbon offset proponents (to allow polluters to buy forests rather than reduce emissions) were already scheming ways to...
Rachel Smolker is a member of the Steering Committee of the international Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees. She was formerly a campaigner for GJEP when we had our office in Hinesburg, VT--home to Geprags Park. 11/17/2016 06:10 pm ET Rachel...
San Francisco/Jakarta — As the 14th annual Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil meetings get underway in Bangkok, a new report released today by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) exposes ongoing destruction to one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. The RAN...
ITTO governing body meets in Yokohama amidst grave crisis – Bruno Manser Fund demands full transparency and legal action against former Executive Director Emanuel ZeMeka and his staff over $18 million investment losses YOKOHAMA, Japan - Representatives of the...
Via Rainforest-Rescue.org: Madagascar’s nature is unique – half of all chameleon species and all of the world’s lemurs live there. A large number of the island’s plant species are also endemic – i.e., they occur nowhere else on the planet. However, 80 percent of...
Via World Resources Institute: Nearly half of Earth’s forests have been cleared or degraded – but we have the power to change this! WRI’s Global Restoration Initiative works with governments and international partners to inspire, enable and mobilize action to restore...
The Daily Times in Pakistan reports that the plantation of an alien plant species, the conocarpus, has become widespread throughout the city of Karachi. Former Mayor of Karachi Mustafa Kamal led City District Government Karachi (CDGK), planted around 2.2 million...