The Global GMO Free Coalition brings together 60 groups across six continents with over 4.5 million members - all committed to fighting GMO / biotech industry propaganda. Meanwhile Russia is leading the way to GMO freedom ...
… Global GMO-free Coalition launches with 4.5 … GMOs Food Farming Health no-gmo-cut.jpg The Global GMO Free Coalition brings together 60 … is leading the way to GMO freedom ... The Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC), with over …
With global warming putting pressure on animals and biodiversity in the tropics, is it time we had a new poster child for climate change, asks William Laurance
… Possum Natural World Species Extinction Global Warming Species Extinction Climate … Natural World possum_or_polar_01.jpg With global warming putting pressure on animals and … asks William Laurance If you are like me, global warming usually conjures up thoughts of …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
… that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement. It is becoming … depleted and smallholder farmers, so vital to global food production, are being squeezed off … land and out of farming. A minority of the global population has access to so much food …
Oxford researchers have quantified the benefits of the world becoming vegetarian, writes Marco Springmann. Their study shows that simple changes - like moving to diets low in meat and high in fruit and vegetables - could lead to significant reduction in mortality and health care costs, while cutting food sector greenhouse gas emissions by two thirds.
… more plant-based diets in line with the WHO's global dietary guidelines could avert 5m-8m … by 2050. This represents a 6-10% reduction in global mortality. Food-related greenhouse gas … trillion. That's up to a tenth of the likely global GDP in 2050. Our results are published …
A major new study reveals that climate change may be a global medical emergency far bigger than we previously thought. But the authors also see signs that world may be starting to wake up to the danger, reports JOE WARE
… study reveals that climate change may be a global medical emergency far bigger than we … in The Lancet medical journal suggests that global warming is fundamentally a health crisis on a global scale. The findings are stark. Between …
G20 must fund ‘massive global health plan’ to tackle coronavirus crisis.
… G20 must fund ‘massive global health plan’ to tackle coronavirus crisis. Anti-poverty campaigners Global Justice Now have called for … reforms have created a deeply unequal global economy which needs to be ‘reset’ in …
Pollution caused by burning fossil fuels are already causing the premature deaths of 200,000 people a year - in the US alone, writes Pete Dolack. Add up the figures worldwide and it comes to many millions. And that's before we even count the catastrophic long term impacts of global warming. The US response: to loosen anti-pollution regulation and encourage increased oil, coal and gas production.
… count the catastrophic long term impacts of global warming. The US response: to loosen … of all deaths of children age five or younger globally. A summary notes : "[W]hen infants … environmentally stressed areas: "92% of the global population, including billions of …
The recently published Global Nutrition Report shows almost all countries face high levels of malnutrition and diet-based ill-health, writes Julia Wright. This reveals deep problems with the dominant industrial model of food production, and the need for new agroecological approaches to feeding the world.
… Only agroecology can tackle the global food and health crisis Dr Julia Wright … The recently published Global Nutrition Report shows almost all … approaches to feeding the world. The current global food crisis is simple and complex at …
Roads are responsible for massive environmental damage around the world, writes Bill Laurance - yet they also bring huge benefits. His solution? A new atlas that shows where the 'goods' of roads outweigh the 'bads', so that developing countries can harness the prosperity new roads can bring, without the destruction.
… A global plan for road expansion that doesn't … published today in Nature , we've developed a global 'roadmap' of where to put those roads … and have a major stabilizing influence on the global climate. 'Killer roads' open up forests …
The energy, financial and health costs of lighting up our homes and streets could be saved through better lighting and an end to wasteful illuminations
… Dark nights: the global effort to tackle light pollution Carrie … as money, including taxpayers' money. Like global warming, light pollution extends to the … pollution and figuring out how to solve this global quandary. With a problem as amorphous …
Can food crops really be engineered to thrive - and to yield more - under drought conditions? After 25 years we're still waiting for the flood of evidence, says Prof Jack Heinemann
… Prof Jack Heinemann Finding a solution to global hunger is a global priority. It is also the driving force … ravage of climate change, such as drought. Global hunger is not caused by insufficient …
Species may be able to adapt to gradual increases in temperature preventing the collapse of biological communities in the face of global climate change
… spiders shows species may be able to adapt to global warming William McLennan | 10th March … News Natural World Spiders Climate Change Global Warming Spiders Ecosystems … of biological communities in the face of global climate change The predatory behaviour …
The Rampal coal power plant in Bangladesh, near the world's greatest mangrove forest, is a deeply misconceived project that must be abandoned, writes Johan Frijns in this Open Letter to the Exim Bank of India - which is planning to finance its construction. It would severely damage the precious local environment and wildlife, while adding to global climate change and sea level rise.
… environment and wildlife, while adding to global climate change and sea level rise. The … A severe and direct threat - locally and globally Dear Mr. Yaduvendra Mathur, CEO of … and "considers citizens of India and the global community stakeholders of the bank" , …
Former editor of New Scientist and author of After The Ice: Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic on climategate, polar military activity and the icecap's chances
… icecap's chances Laura Sevier: The Arctic is global warming's canary in the coalmine with … You frequently hear these arguments about the global temperature record from weather … there is simply no answer. The evidence for global warming is not one thing - it's a great …
It's a global phenomenon - we are consuming more calories, and more of those calories are the same, writes David Nally. Just ten crops produce 75% of our food, as factory-farmed meat, sugar, wheat, corn, soybeans and palm oil displace more nutritious and diverse diets. It's not good for us, or the planet - but it's great for corporate food monopolists!
… Health corn-iowa-rich-griffith.jpg It's a global phenomenon - we are consuming more … fears this is true." Reading about the global food economy today one is reminded of … Indeed for all its vaunted successes our global food provisioning system has failed to …
While logging and deforestation has gained global attention the growing sand mining sector is being largely ignored. Fuelled by Singapore’s land and construction demands it is wreaking environmental destruction across south-east Asia
… While logging and deforestation has gained global attention the growing sand mining … sand exports, an investigation by the NGO Global Witness has estimated that 796,000 … announce a ban on sand exports last year but Global Witness later found this only covered …
The UK is to create a fully protected marine in the South Pacific more than three times bigger than the UK itself, covering some 830,000 square kilometres. The move may herald further huge designations in the UK's 'overseas territories' which encompass over 6 million square kilometres of ocean.
… marine ecosystems on the planet and are of globally significant biological value. Over … and corals. Forty-eight of these species are globally threatened - such as the critically … British jurisdiction, and has increased the global fully protected area by a quarter. …
The 'Global Redesign Initiative', a project of the World Economic Forum, aims to replace UN-based intergovernmental decision-making with unaccountable 'multi-stakeholder governance' run by and for corporations, writes Margi Prideaux. What future for nature and people in this brave new world? Generate profits for investors, or face extinction or exclusion to the margins of existence.
… Politics once-rainforest-cut.jpg The 'Global Redesign Initiative', a project of the … facilitated by changes in the structure of global governance - and it's about to get much … America have been a 'resource hinterland' for global capitalism - an economic system that …
In a landmark ruling, judges have ordered the Netherlands to do more to tackle the 'imminent danger' of climate change. Meanwhile an expert commission reports of an impending global health breakdown from unmitigated global warming.
… an expert commission reports of an impending global health breakdown from unmitigated global warming. A Dutch court has made history … last half-century of gains in development and global health. Writing in The Lancet medical …
Rising emissions and air pollution levels threaten global public health, the World Health Organisation has warned.
… emissions and air pollution levels threaten global public health, the World Health … - and will undermine decades of progress in global health. Direct impacts Climate change … displacement, threatening to undo the global progress in sustainable development …
Emissions of short-lived pollutants like black carbon can be reduced and provide quick reductions in climate change and improvements in air quality. The Ecologist reports
… Black carbon: how reducing it could slow global warming and lift the Asian smog William … estimate we could quickly reduce ‘near-term’ global warming by 0.5 degrees Celsius by … prove vital for nations who agreed to limit global warming to two degrees at last years UN …
The human family must come together now to stop Ebola in West Africa or risk a global pandemic that could potentially kill billions, writes Glen Barry. And that will mean solving, with equity and justice, the disease's root causes: rainforest loss, poverty, war and overpopulation.
… now to stop Ebola in West Africa or risk a global pandemic that could potentially kill … family and Earth understand that avoiding a global pandemic depends upon the international … meager funds and few doctors to avoid global pandemic. This is a shocking betrayal …
The acclaimed buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh talks to the Ecologist about the loss of biodiversity and why human vulnerability is not something we should despair about
… about Do you believe humans can avoid a global ecological collapse, or are we driving … that 251 million years ago there was already global warming caused by gigantic volcanic … the history of the planet. The 6C increase in global temperature was enough to wipe out 95 …
Repulsing the logging invasion of Tasmania’s wet eucalypt forest by Paul Kingsnorth
… Global Rescue Paul Kingsnorth | 1st December … with banners. ‘Here it is,’ says Lee. ‘The Global Rescue Station. People camped up there … We really got the world’s attention.’ The ‘Global Rescue Station’ is a treehouse built by …