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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...