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Release: Diverse Groups Unite In Opposition To GE Tree Plan By SUNY-ESF
Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees For Immediate Release 17 June 2020 For More Information Contact Steve Taylor +1.314.210.1322...
GMO Mosquitoes First Of Many Attempts To Transform Natural World
Photo: Langelle/GJEP Genetically modified mosquitoes could be released in Florida and Texas beginning this summer – silver bullet or jumping the gun? The Conversation 3 June 2020 B. Allan, C. Stone, H. Tuten, J. Kuzma, & N. Kofler This summer, for the first time,...
Statement on the Recent Dicamba Decision
Photo: protest against Monsanto's toxic agrochemicals and GMOs in Asuncion, Paraguay, 2014. Photo: Langelle/ photolangelle.org Campaign To Stop GE Trees For Immediate Release June 5, 2020 Statement on the Recent Dicamba Decision Monsanto's Pesticide Unlawful - Drift...
Webinar Series Explains Gene Drives
GENE DRIVES EXPLAINED. WHAT, WHY, HOW? The authors of the interdisciplinary Gene Drive Report (2019) are holding webinars on social, technological & scientific, environmental, ethical and legal questions of this new technique in June 2020 via Zoom – for free....
Science Says Burning Trees Is A False Climate Solution
Photo: Logging devastation in Mapuche Territory (Chile). Langelle/GJEP GE trees are being heavily promoted as a false climate solution. Genetically engineered trees are being developed for use in biomass plantations to be burned for electricity. Other GE trees are...
New GE Trees 3 Minute Video
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We Respond: Letter Published in New York Times Challenges Support for GE Trees
Global Justice Ecology Project, which coordinates the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, submitted the letter below to the New York Times Magazine–it was published in its print edition on Sunday, May 17th. The letter was submitted in response to a piece written by Gabriel...
NY Times Magazine Promotes GE Trees – We Set the Record Straight
By Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project An article printed in today’s New York Times Magazine, “Can Genetic Engineering Bring Back the American Chestnut?” by Gabriel Popkin, is a disappointing piece of questionable journalism. In this...
Isoxaflutole-The EPA’s Newest Toxic Approval
Op-ed: Ever heard of isoxaflutole? That’s about to change Environmental Health News 24 April 2020 Nathan Donley Across the country, many people who've never stepped into a soybean or corn field are familiar with pesticides like the cancer-linked glyphosate in Roundup...
Commercial Timber Industry Under Fire
Eucalyptus plantations in South Africa are nicknamed "green cancer" because the spread uncontrollably and destroy everything they touch. South Africa is one of the countries looking into the possibility of GE tree plantations in the future. (2003) Photo:...
Monsanto Knew Dicamba Would Cause Damage
We cannot be surprised that capitalism has failed to keep people safe in the face of a global pandemic , when large corporations like Monsanto are allowed to ignore public safety, as with the government approving this dangerous pesticide despite Monsanto knowing its...
What Could Be Wrong About Planting Trees?
What could be wrong about planting trees? The new push for more industrial tree plantations in the Global South World Rainforest Movement 23 March 2020 What could be wrong about planting trees? Haven’t communities around the world been planting a diversity of trees...
Trump Moves to Allow GMO Crops in Wildlife Refuges
Photo: Langelle/GJEP Trump's move to allow GMO crops in wildlife refuges is not unexpected with the administration already reversing wildlife refuge prohibition. Last Fall the Center for Food Safety sued over the withdrawal of the prohibition. The case is ongoing. If...
GMWatch: New Peer Reviewed Paper Addresses Specific Environmental Risks Associated With GE Plants
GE Trees Protest in Asheville, NC-May, 2013. Langelle/GJEP Nature is a complex web of life that has evolved over billions of years. The introduction of genetically engineered (GE) organisms threatens the evolutionary integrity of that web. The effects of GE plants are...
WRM: March 8 | Women’s Day
Women Traditional Healers – Amador Hernandez, Chiapas, Mexico (2011). Photo: Langelle World Rainforest Movement 7 March 2020 Women, particularly those who depend on forests for their livelihoods and sustenance, face many struggles. Women often lead various types of...
On International Women’s Day: A Look Back At Women’s Actions Against GE Trees In Brazil
GJEP has worked in solidarity with the MST in Brazil to stop the use of GE trees there since 2006. We strongly oppose Brazil’s outrageous decision in 2015 to legalize genetically engineered eucalyptus trees. Brazil’s irresponsible approval of this experimental tree...
Sign On And Denounce The Fraudulent Campaign of the Finnish Multinational UPM
Monoculture plantation of eucalyptus seedlings-Lumaco Region, Chile. Photo: Langelle Sign on this letter! Denounce the fraudulent campaign of the Finnish multinational UPM World Rainforest Movement 6 February 2020 Social organizations from Uruguay, Finland and other...
The Daily Orange: Genetically Engineered Trees A Risk To Environment
American chestnut tree in Vermont. Photo: Petermann The newspaper of the State University of NY (SUNY) at Syracuse is The Daily Orange. SUNY Syracuse's - Environmental Science and Forestry College is home to the American Chestnut Research and Restoration Project,...