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...
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...
GLBrain.com recently published a piece by John Nelson titled, "Genetically-Engineered Trees and Our Health" that bases much of its information on A Silent Forest, a GE trees documentary narrated by Dr. David Suzuki. It has a lot of good information in it, but a more...
Crosscut.com recently published a piece by Alec Connon, organizer at 350 Seattle, focusing on the fact that influential public officials don't seem to understand the fact that burning wood is not “carbon-neutral”. The debate over whether the burning of forest biomass...
European and US development funds are bankrolling palm oil company Feronia Inc despite land and labour conflicts at its plantations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). New information now raises questions as to whether the Canadian-based company misused...
Via BiofuelWatch: The revised Renewable Energy Directive presented by the European Commission today [1] will cause added harm to forests and people, environmental justice campaigners [2] have warned. Its boost to wood-based bioenergy, is set to increase...