New research suggests that we are heading for an "ecological Armageddon" that will affect all life on the planet, including humans. COLIN TODHUNTER investigates.
Rolling back the tide of pesticide poison, corruption and looming mass extinction Colin Todhunter | 24th November 2017 Comment Pesticides Extinction Corruption Tobacco WTO Many insects, including …
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 …
‘Climate Smart Agriculture' can be applied to anything from industrial monocultures to agroecology, writes Helena Paul - and fertiliser, biotech and agribusiness corporations are seizing the chance to cash in. Now COP21 host France is proposing to use soils as a giant carbon sink - a fine idea in itself, but not if it's used to 'offset' continued fossil fuel emissions, and to greenwash industrial agriculture.
‘Climate-Smart Agriculture' - preparing for a corporate soil and climate-grab in Paris? Helena Paul EcoNexus | 26th November 2015 Comment COP21 Farming The Land Climate Change Emissions France …
A new generation of biofuels is poised to come into the market. Grown on unused, ‘marginal’ land they won’t compete for our food crops. But just where exactly is all this marginal land, and whose backyard might it be? Helena Paul reports
Biofuels 2.0 Helena Paul | 1st February 2009 News Biofuels Agrofuels Food And Farming Energy Crops Land Marginal Fuel biofuels_2.0.jpg A new generation of biofuels is poised to come into the market. …
The mainstream British media have long acted as cheerleaders for GMOs, but none quite so much as The Times and its disgraced correspondent Matt Ridley, writes Colin Todhunter. His most recent article on the topic is a strange concoction of misrepresentations, falsehoods and blunders dressed up as science, and reflects both his ignorance of the real facts and his deep ideological commitment to corporate profit and power.
… on her nature reserve in the UK and cites various sources of evidence to highlight …
We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Dr Frances Kelsey, write Helena Paul & Philip Bereano. In 1960, she defied her bosses at the FDA to prevent the licensing of thalidomide in the USA, saving thousands from being born with serious deformities. Her tough approach to minimising the risk from new drugs contains lessons we ignore at our peril.
Dr Frances Kelsey: thalidomide and the precautionary principle Helena Paul Philip Bereano | 25th August 2015 Comment Health Science Corporations USA Regulation thalidomide-children-cut.jpg We owe a …
The 'cancer industry', including charities with close links to chemicals corporations, is always keen to blame cancer victims for their morally deficient lifestyles, writes Colin Todhunter. But the real fault lies with the commercial interests touting bad food, nutritionally unbalanced and laced with toxic agrochemicals - like the ubiquitous glyphosate - and their residues.
We are being silently poisoned: the case against glyphosate Colin Todhunter | 14th April 2016 Comment Heath Food Farming Corporations Regulation Pesticides Toxics EU USA burger-cut.jpg The 'cancer …
The US looks set to approve GM crops that resist the 'Agent Orange' pesticide 2,4-D as well as glyphosate, writes Helena Paul. If it does, the toxic chemical - created in WW2 to destroy enemy food supplies - will soon end up in animal feeds, and the food we eat.
Coming to your table? GMO crops resistant to 'war herbicide' 2,4D Helena Paul | 8th May 2014 News GMOs USA Brazil Argentina Toxics Farming Food EU crop duster-cut.jpg The use of 2,4D - a toxic …