Via ECOTERRA: Until his arrest last year, one of the biggest forest destroyers in the history of the Amazon oversaw a large and sophisticated criminal network from his base in Sao Paulo’s upper class neighbourhood of Jardins. Wiretaps and field investigations by...
After Six Years USDA, GE Tree Company ArborGen Fail to Launch GE Eucalyptus New York (12 January 2017) - Tuesday, 17 January 2017, the eve of the new Trump Presidency, will mark six years since genetically engineered tree (GE) company ArborGen submitted a petition to...
Genetically Engineered Trees were the topic when Global Justice Ecology Project's Anne Petermann was a guest on the Post Carbon Radio show airing on KWMR-FM on Jan. 9. Petermann joined guests Claire Hope Cummings, an environmental journalist; and Mark Dowie, also...
Munduruku warriors. A proud indigenous society, today numbering 13,000, the Munduruku are making a defiant stand against the Brazilian government’s plan to build dozens of dams on the Tapajós River and its tributaries. Photo by Mauricio Torres Brazil has dynamited an...
Global Justice Ecology Project's Anne Petermann provided the weekly Earth Minute segment for the Sojourner Truth Radio Show on Wednesday, discussing how genetically engineered American Chestnuts will be bad for forests if released into the wild. The Earth Minute...
GE tree company ArborGen announced today that it is expanding its agreement with International Paper Brazil (IP). IP will be granting ArborGen additional access to the library of IP’s Eucalyptus genetic material. Eucalyptus is the most widely planted hardwood...
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...