Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil Called To Task for Certifying Violent, Destructive Companies On November 12, with the endorsement of organizations from five continents, Friends of the Earth International and World Rainforest Movement publish an open...
The Dark Side of the Bioeconomy: Climate Catastrophe, Forest Destruction, and Human Rights Abuses Over 115 Organisations from 40 countries hold day of action to reject the “BioFuture Platform” (November 7, 2018) -- An international coalition of more than 120...
Over 120 Groups From Around the World Declare Large Scale Forest Biomass Energy a Dangerous ‘Delusion’ (24 October 2018) - A loud chorus of civil society organisations representing hundreds of thousands of people around the world has come together to release a new...
ARTE.TV recently published a documentary titled Who is Protecting our Forests? From ARTE.TV: The Forest Stewardship Council is the international organisation which sets standards on timber products to make sure that the world’s forests are managed responsibly. But...
ABC, an Australian public broadcast service, released a short documentary titled The Monsanto Papers, which "investigates the secret tactics used by global chemical giant Monsanto to protect its billion-dollar business and its star product, the weed killer, Roundup."...
Climate change is bringing drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty to hundreds of millions of people, and air pollution in the UK is causing tens of thousands of premature deaths each year. Our government should be reducing energy demand and shifting to clean...
Industrialization of Bioeconomy Poses Risks to Climate, Environment and People Civil society groups reject the impact of an exponential growth of the Bioeconomy In recent years, governments have given support to substitute fossil fuels with biomass for energy, in the...
Firm Behind GMO Apples, Mosquitoes and Salmon Under Investigation for Securities Fraud GMWatch.org - US synbio firm Intrexon, which owns GMO mosquitos, salmon and apples, is being investigated by lawyers for securities fraud. The law firm Pomerantz LLP is...
Invasive Pines Fueled 2017 Fires in Knysna, South Africa A recent study published in Fire Ecology documented the climatic, weather and fuel factors that contributed to one of the region's worst fires on record The replacement of natural fynbos vegetation with pine...
Research determines reasons for massive fires in south-central Chile The Campaign to STOP GE Trees and Global Justice Ecology Project has worked to expose the dangers of monoculture tree plantations in Chile. See our Chile Blog here. PHYS.ORG: A Montana State...