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 …
Thinking through the archives of ‘industrial time’ – from Jane Eyre to the IPCC report.
Catastrophe and knowledge Nathan K Hensley | 10th December 2018 Comment Recycled Editor’s Picks Crystal Palace Great Exhibition IPCC Jane Eyre Empire Coal Time Pre-Industrial picture1.jpeg Thinking …
Boosters of 'free trade' agreements - like the Trans Pacific Partnership that's being signed today - like to make big promises, writes Pete Dolack: trillions of dollars of economic gains, billions of dollars of investment, millions of new jobs. But there's only one certainty, and it's one they never mention: the permanent redistribution of power and income from working people to capital.
Promises be damned: TPP 'benefits' are strictly for the corporations Pete Dolack | 4th February 2016 News Trade Politics Regulation Economics Corporations New Zealand Pacific tpp-free-cut.jpg …
The Reuters news organisation has just sullied its reputation with a disgraceful attack on the WHO's specialist body on cancer, the IARC, writes Claire Robinson. Resorting to smear, innuendo and anonymous critics, it relies heavily on discredited industry sources including tobacco defenders in its attempt to undermine IARC's view that glyphosate probably causes cancer.
Industry fingerprints all over Reuters' attack on IARC over glyphosate and cancer Claire Robinson GMWatch | 21st April 2016 News Media Health Toxics Pesticides Un EU Regulation Corporations …
Dow's teratogenic pesticide chlorpyrifos is a human and environmental disaster, writes Janette D. Sherman. It causes serious, irreversible damage to the human foetus even at low concentrations that may be harmless to the mother, resulting in severely and permanently disabled and mentally damaged children. But it's still sprayed in vast quantities on America's farms.
Chlorpyrifos - cause of birth defects, mental impairment - sprayed on farms across the US Janette D. Sherman | 15th November 2014 News Farming USA Toxics Regulation spraying-lorsban-cut.jpg Dow's …
China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery packages will put three times as much cash into fossil fuel projects as into renewable energy.
China coal stokes climate fire Simon Pirani | 22nd January 2021 | Comment Climate Breakdown Coal Fossil Fuels China Editor’s Picks Coal in China China’s national and provincial post-Covid recovery …
Poaching of elephants and rhinos for their ivory tusks and horn is fast pushing these beautiful animals to extinction, writes Anneka Svenska. Decisive action is needed at the 17th CITES congress in South Africa to ban all international trade in these products, matched by equally strict laws at a national level.
Elephants: ten years left, and counting ... Anneka Svenska | 27th September 2016 Comment Wildlife Trade Extinction Africa Mammals Regulation small 4-cut.jpg Poaching of elephants and rhinos for their …
The Brexit campaign included investors, brokers and businessmen with a financial interest in tearing up European Union regulations protecting the environment, claims BRENDAN MONTAGUE
‘Green Brexit’? Not with this dirty Brexit brigade, Mr Gove Brendan Montague | 3rd October 2017 News Gove Tory Conference Brexit Regulation Business 405453.jpg The Brexit campaign included investors, …
As well as local outrage over 'fracking' drilling there is new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential gas boom near Blackpool
UK gas fracking boom 'may be dirtier than coal' Tom Levitt | 13th April 2011 News Shale Gas Fracturing Energy Coal Methane Greenhouse Gas Emissions Investigations fracturing.jpg Methane emissions …
Despite outrage in the US over ‘fracturing’ techniques used to extract shale gas and new evidence its greenhouse gas footprint may be higher than that of coal, the UK has given the go-ahead to companies here to begin drilling. Tom Levitt reports from the centre of this potential unconventional gas boom near Blackpool
UK shale gas boom 'may be dirtier than coal' Tom Levitt | 13th April 2011 News Shale Gas Energy Investigations Renewables Coal Methane fracturing.jpg Methane emissions have been found to escape …
Forty years ago Monsanto carried out detailed studies of glyphosate and Roundup toxicity, write Richard Gale & Gary Null. But they have remained buried in filing cabinets ever since. Now a determined scientist has breached the wall of secrecy - and all the evidence is that Monsanto knew just how toxic its products were all along, while claiming they were 'safe as lemonade'.
Monsanto knew all along! Secret studies reveal the truth of Roundup toxicity Richard Gale Gary Null Progressive Radio Network | 18th September 2015 News Health Toxics Corporations Science Regulation …
Thirty-five distinguished scientists urge the US-EPA not to register new mixtures of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, intended for use on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. Approval of the herbicide mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health.
Scientists write: EPA, ban 'agent orange' herbicide mix and GMO crops! The undersigned | 3rd July 2014 Comment Farming Toxics USA GMOs Regulation windy-day-spray-cut.jpg Thirty-five distinguished …