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...
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...
Invasive Pines Fueled 2017 Fires in Knysna, South Africa A recent study published in Fire Ecology documented the climatic, weather and fuel factors that contributed to one of the region's worst fires on record The replacement of natural fynbos vegetation with pine...
Research determines reasons for massive fires in south-central Chile The Campaign to STOP GE Trees and Global Justice Ecology Project has worked to expose the dangers of monoculture tree plantations in Chile. See our Chile Blog here. PHYS.ORG: A Montana State...
International Day of Struggle Against Monoculture Tree Plantations is Sept. 21 https://youtu.be/SWulBYNTTFA?list=PLFiV4ZqarMQil1esbPFTQlO1PlyoaTLON September 21, the International Day Against Monoculture Tree Plantations, is a day for organizations, networks and...
Papaya Genetically Engineered to Resist Viral Infection Fails Against New Virus Lineage Breakdown of virus resistance in GM papaya raises big questions about the sustainability of GM virus resistance more generally, even when initially successful Dr Doug...
Claims of Successful Genetically Engineered Tree Sterility Overblown FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 08/08/2018 Claims of Successful Genetically Engineered Tree Sterility Overblown Long-term risks and threats of GE trees remain unanswered Joint Statement from: Global Justice...