While the idiocy and racism surrounding the president and white supremacists in Charlottesville, NC dominates the news cycle, PBS Newshour has included the USDA's push to approve genetically engineered eucalyptus trees in this week's '5 Important Stories You Might...
Statement from Biofuelwatch, Global Justice Ecology Project and Indigenous Environmental Network New York (US)–New Zealand-owned tree biotechnology company ArborGen faces near unanimous opposition to commercial deregulation of their genetically engineered...
In this interview from EuroNews with forest and tree plantation wildfire expert Alexander Held of EFI, the European Forest Institute, some really sensible advice is offered concerning what needs to be done to help reduce the incidence and impacts of devastating...
Councils retain right to regulate GE trees The Soil & Health Association is thrilled that newly released standards for forestry no longer include a controversial clause that would have allowed the planting of genetically engineered (GE) trees across New...
While the public anxiously awaits the USDA's final decision regarding the approval of the commercial release of ArborGen's highly controversial GE eucalyptus trees, even the high profile GE tree professor Steve Strauss has his doubts. In an article released by the...
via GIPHY Note: On Friday July 28 the European Court of Justice ordered that the logging of Białowieża Forest must stop immediately. The interim decision comes after the European Commission sued the government of Poland on July 13 for proceeding with the logging...
Research published in the American Journal of Primatology earlier this month finds that the overall Western Chimpanzee population has declined by more than 80 percent over the past quarter century, according to MongaBay.com. The main threats to the Western Chimpanzee...
Via Rainforest Rescue On the construction site of the Olympic stadium in Tokyo, environmentalists have discovered sheets of plywood for concrete formwork stamped “SY e-panel”, a label used by Shin Yang – a company deeply implicated in the illegal logging of...
Field investigation provides shocking satellite imagery of increased deforestation, despite the company having been exposed in a report just three months prior San Francisco, CA - A new “Leuser Watch” report released by Rainforest Action Network (RAN) exposes shocking...
Project Earth, an environmental blog from the Gizmodo Media Group, recently published an article With US's First Genetically Modified Tree Comes a Forest of Potential Problems featuring information and data from the Campaign to STOP GE Trees. Writer Lucas Isakowitz...