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...
Eucalyptus Plantations, Toilet Paper Companies Devastate Brazilian Town The devastating social and ecological impacts of plantations, especially eucalyptus are well documented and vast. Freeze tolerant genetically engineered eucalyptus trees could allow eucalyptus...
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...
Women Face Abuse, Poverty Due To Oil Palm Industry Declaration: No to abuse against women in industrial oil palm plantations “Yesterday is gone, live today wisely and since tomorrow cannot be assured, the struggle starts now…” Hajaratu Abdulahi from Nigeria We...
The potential unintended consequences of spreading genetically engineered American Chestnut trees was the topic of an op-ed column by Marlene A. Condon published in the Crozete Gazette: “Transgenic” organisms (those with the genes of a totally different species within...