Public Health England is guilty of gross scientific misconduct, writes Paul Mobbs, for its apparently deliberate whitewashing of the public health impacts of fracking. But it's all part of a pattern of maladministration that reaches to the heart of government.
Shale gas and public health - the whitewash exposed Paul Mobbs | 6th May 2014 News Fracking Health UK Law Fossil Fuels Pollution Radiation gasmasks-cut.jpg Public Health England is guilty of gross …
The anti-fracking movement scored a great victory when Lancashire councillors refused planning permission for two fracking wells, writes Damien Short. But dig deeper and the triumph was all the greater, as it overcame not just Cuadrilla, but a morass of pro-fracking bias and legal and scientific misrepresentation from those meant to be providing impartial advice.
Lancashire's fracking victory was even greater than we knew Damien Short | 21st July 2015 News Fracking Energy Politics Human Rights Law Science camp-frack-cut.jpg The anti-fracking movement scored a …
A key paper that's been widely cited to justify the use of GM 'Golden rice' to boost vitamin A nutrition has been withdrawn due to ethical breaches, with no proof of consent by parents of the children taking part in trials. But that's not the only objection.
Golden rice GMO paper retracted after judge rules for journal Retraction Watch | 31st July 2015 News GMOs Food Science China Media golden_rice-cut.jpg A key paper that's been widely cited to justify …
Is Monsanto the “clean and green” company its advertisements promote, or is the new image merely a product of clever public relations?
… sites in the region remain unanswered, but cites evidence that close investigations of … of Sussex Science Policy Research Unit cites a series of reports from the 1980s …
Oil giant BP is the UK's single biggest EU lobbyist, spending over £2 million reaching out to European policy makers in 2014, new figures show. But citing hard times, the company has dropped its controversial sponsorship of the London's Tate Galleries - and more such branding deals may bite the dust.
BP doubles EU lobby spend, drops Tate sponsorship Kyla Mandel The Ecologist | 14th March 2016 News Corporations Arts Finance Fossil Fuels Oil Pollution oil-coated dophin-cut.jpg Oil giant BP is …
In an open letter to the Ecologist, Douglas Gowan has detailed a two-year smear campaign waged against him in the Seventies by Monsanto, details of which were known to the Agency and were only revealed when Gowan submitted a Freedom of Information request. Who was it protecting?
… 1970. 3. Analytical results that Tinker cites are for Brofiscin and not Maendy. Cattle deaths and abortions that Tinker cites are also for Brofiscin and not Maendy. … that I am/was unreliable and as a proof cites the fact that Miles told him that the …
In an open letter to the Ecologist, Douglas Gowan has detailed a two-year smear campaign waged against him in the Seventies by Monsanto, details of which were known to the Agency and were only revealed when Gowan submitted a Freedom of Information request. Who was it protecting?
… 1970. 3. Analytical results that Tinker cites are for Brofiscin and not Maendy. Cattle deaths and abortions that Tinker cites are also for Brofiscin and not Maendy. … that I am/was unreliable and as a proof cites the fact that Miles told him that the …
A broad community of independent scientific researchers and scholars challenges claims of a 'consensus' that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are 'safe' to grow and eat. The claims - which continue to be widely and often uncritically aired - are a false and artificial construct that have been misleadingly perpetuated through diverse media.
There is no scientific consensus on GMO safety Angelika Hilbeck colleagues | 23rd February 2015 News GMOs Food Farming Health Science corn-storm-iowa-cut.jpg Are GMO crops safe? We don't know. …
Activists in Gloucestershire are battling to block the construction of a massive incinerator that they see as a blight on the landscape, costly, polluting, wasteful and undermining recycling, writes Dan Hinge. Now the fight, backed by superstar actor Jeremy Irons, just entered a new phase after a tribunal forced the County Council to reveal essential details of the contract it had signed.
Up in smoke: the fight to block Gloucestershire's unwanted incinerator Dan Hinge | 24th April 2017 Activism Waste Pollution Recycling Landscape UK England incinerator m5 plume-cut.jpg Activists in …
It was 28 years ago today that Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine ruptured and ignited, sending a massive plume of radiation across Europe. Jim Green assesses the scientific evidence for how many people died as a result of the catastrophe.
… UNSCEAR itself co-authored a report which cites an estimate from an international expert …
Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding. Lawrence Carter & Maeve McClenaghan spill the beans ...
Climate 'academics for hire' conceal fossil fuel funding Lawrence Carter Maeve McClenaghan Greenpeace Energydesk | 9th December 2015 News Fossil Fuels Climate Change Science UK US ted-cruz-cut.jpg …
The Precautionary Principle must mean, above all, avoiding the risk of ruinous outcomes for people or the wider environment, write Rupert Read & David Burnham. When the Philippines Supreme Court applied that test to GMOs, they found they had to ban them - not as a moral choice but pragmatically, to avoid potentially devastating consequences.
Philippines GMO ban is the Precautionary Principle in action Rupert Read David Burnham | 16th December 2015 Comment Science GMOs Law Regulation Philippines triffids-cut.jpg The Precautionary …
Three in one: EFSA set to re-licence glyphosate based on secret industry studies; Monsanto moves against IARC verdict that glyphosate is a 'probable carcinogen'; and new science shows that FDA principle of GMO 'substantial equivalence' is bunk.
GMO and glyphosate wars rage Oliver Tickell | 16th July 2015 News Corporations GMOs Health Toxics Regulation EU USA Science …
Jem Bendell's popular self-published paper has been platformed by Extinction Rebellion, but relies on pseudoscience to come to inaccurate and harmful conclusions.
Is Deep Adaptation flawed science? Thomas Nicholas Galen Hall Colleen Schmidt | 15th July 2020 News Science And Systems Systems Deep Adaptation Editor’s Picks Science Listen to the Science Jem …
Just as climate change deniers leap from scientific uncertainty over the precise impacts of greenhouse gas emissions to certainty of little or no impact at all, so 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' conflate uncertainty of the mortality arising from Chernobyl and other nuclear disasters to certainty of few if any deaths, writes Jim Green. Their position is equally indefensible.
Radiation harm deniers? Pro-nuclear environmentalists and the Chernobyl death toll Dr Jim Green | 7th April 2016 News Nuclear Health Science Radiation WMD Ukraine Belarus doll.jpg Just as climate …
Thirty years ago, there was no evidence that badgers spread bovine TB among cattle, writes Lesley Docksey. Nor is there now. Yet badgers are still being slaughtered in a futile attempt to control the disease. This timely republication of Richard Meyer's 1986 book reveals the belligerent ignorance of the officials, politicians and farmers driving the failed policy.
… by Professor Wyn Grant, in which Grant cites several pronouncements by government …
Report published in Nature expresses alarm at the impact of cancer on endangered species such as Tasmanian devil and beluga whale
Rising cancer levels in animals The Ecologist | 7th August 2009 News Wildlife Cancer Health Natural World Pollution Chemicals tasmaniandevil.jpg Report published in Nature expresses alarm at the …
Many of the substances that make wastewater a pollutant can also be useful as fertilisers for agriculture and in generating gases for small power stations, says report
… diseases. Sewage facilities The report cites contrasts Jakarta, where just 3 per cent …
A coal-fired power station in Italy that has caused an estimated 442 deaths has been closed down following a court order. A case of corporate manslaughter is under investigation.
Italy: Police close down deadly power station DeSmogBlog | 16th March 2014 News Italy Pollution Coal Energy Health Fossil Fuels smog_in_vado_ligure.png A coal-fired power station in Italy that has …
Local campaigners fearful of water shortages and industrial pollution have forced state authorities to cancel an unpopular plan to allocate land for a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Tamil Nadu, India.
Campaigners defeat Coca-Cola plant in South India The Ecologist | 21st April 2015 News India Water Pollution Corporations coca-cola-india-cut.jpg Local campaigners fearful of water shortages and …
In early March author Steven Druker challenged the Royal Society to justify its outspoken and partisan support of GMO crops, writes Colin Todhunter, and to correct any errors of fact in his book 'Altered Genes,Twisted Truths'. Three months later, the Royal Society remains silent. Is it frightened of genuine scientific debate?
GMOs: the Royal Society's deafening silence Colin Todhunter | 3rd June 2015 Comment GMOs Science UK Health royal-society-cut.jpg Behind its palatial Nash facade onto London's St James's Park, the …
The US's Nuclear Regulatory Commission just cancelled its study into cancer near nuclear plants citing the 'excessive cost' of $8 million, writes Chris Busby. Of course that's rubbish - similar studies in the UK have been carried out for as little as £600 per site, and in any case $8 million is small change for the NRC. The real reason is to suppress the unavoidable conclusion: nuclear power kills.
Nuclear power kills! The real reason the NRC cancelled its nuclear site cancer study Chris Busby | 19th September 2015 News Nuclear Health Energy Regulation USA UK Science millstone-nuclear-cut.jpg …
Last time the Earth was this warm, 130,000 years ago, England's Thames Valley was home to hippos and elephants, write Emma Stone & Alex Farnsworth. But the closest climate analogue is actually the Miocene Climate Optimum, 11 million years ago, when CO2 levels were similar to today's. As for the ice age that's due, scientists believe it will be postponed for at least 100,000 years.
The last time Earth was this hot, Britain was a land of hippos and elephants Emma Stone Alex Farnsworth | 22nd January 2016 Comment Climate Change Science elephants-bully-hippos-cut.jpg Last time the …
The chemical industry and the European Food Safety Authority are refusing to disclose key scientific evidence about glyphosate's risks, citing 'trade secrets' protection, writes Corporate Europe Observatory. They must be compelled to publish the 'mysterious three' scientific studies EFSA used to assess glyphosate as 'unlikely' to cause cancer to humans - contradicting the IARC's view.
Key evidence in EU's risk assessment of glyphosate must not remain 'trade secret' Corporate Europe Observatory | 22nd February 2016 News Health Law Regulation Corporations EU Science Toxics Farming …