Citizens/environment will not be impacted by novel experiment releasing millions of GE mosquitoes WASHINGTON— The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it will not move forward with the controversial release of millions of genetically engineered (GE)...
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160 Groups Call for Moratorium on New Genetic Extinction Technology at UN Convention
Dec 5, 2016
Global Justice Ecology Project co-signed on the letter related to this SynBioWatch release. CANCUN, MEXICO – This week, international conservation and environmental leaders are calling on governments at the 2016 UN Convention on Biodiversity to establish a moratorium...
Diverse Forests are More Productive, More Valuable Than Tree Monocultures
Dec 2, 2016
The following article from Climate News Network confirms what the Campaign to STOP GE Trees has been saying for years - that monoculture tree plantations are bad for the planet, wildlife and human beings. Efforts to genetically modify trees for industry will only make...
America’s Great Plains are Being Plowed At an Alarming Rate
Dec 1, 2016
Originally published by CommonDreams.org: By Andrea Germanos Much attention has been given to the deforestation in the Amazon and the environmental impacts that go with it. But in 2014, the American Great Plains—an area stretching from Texas into...
WATCH: Chico Mendes and the Fight to Stop Deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest
Nov 28, 2016
UPDATE: The New York Times piece below includes footage from the Chico Mendes documentary Voice of the Amazon by Miranda Productions. The documentary is now available in full here for free. The New York Times continued their RETRO REPORT video series with a short...
Deforestation Rates Going Up In Brazil, Likely to Go Even Higher
Nov 25, 2016
By CHRIS LANG Via REDDMonitor.org In 2014, Brazil’s deforestation rate was reported to be about 75% below the average for 1996 to 2005. But in recent years, Brazil’s deforestation rate has been going back up, despite the fact that the country is going through its...
Organic Standards Will Exclude Next Generation of GMOs
Nov 22, 2016
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...
Field Liberation Movement Takes Action Against GE Trees in Belgium
Nov 21, 2016
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...
Deforestation Can Have Effects Beyond Local Landscape
Nov 21, 2016
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...
Does UN REDD Finally Bite the Dust? One less incentive for GE Trees?
Nov 18, 2016
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...