We must begin a deep and profound transformation towards a progressive, sustainable and zero-carbon future.
Beyond a climate of comfortable ignorance Kevin Anderson Isak Stoddard | 8th June 2020 News Climate Science And Systems Zero Carbon Systems Science 46669336332_5fe6764d18_k.jpg We must begin a deep …
Farmers in the Bicol region of the Philippines have gathered to renew their fight against field trials of Golden Rice and halt moves towards its commercialization. But with last year's 'advanced' Golden Rice trials showing low yields, the prospect of a GR release is fast receding.
Philippines: farmers call to stop 'Golden Rice' trials Oliver Tickell | 8th September 2014 News Food Farming GMOs Philippines Science Nutrition bicol-rice-harvest-cut.jpg Farmers in the Bicol region …
The over-hunting of wildlife in the Amazon has an unexpected knock-on effect: the reduced seed dispersal reduces the forest's capacity to store carbon in its biomass, increasing emissions from apparently 'intact' rainforest areas.
… highlight an urgent need to manage the sustainability of game hunting in both …
A wholesale corruption of science underlies the UK Government's insistence that gas from fracking offers a 'low carbon', low cost route to energy abundance, writes Paul Mobbs. On the contrary: it's expensive, over-hyped - and just as bad for climate change as coal.
Fracking 'as bad for climate as coal' - UK's dodgy dossier exposed Paul Mobbs | 30th May 2014 News Energy Fossil Fuels Fracking UK Climate Change Science fracking-bakken-ndakota-cut.jpg A wholesale …
A scientific study that identified serious health impacts on rats fed on 'Roundup ready' GMO maize has been republished following its controversial retraction under strong commercial pressure. Now regulators must respond and review GMO and agro-chemical licenses, and licensing procedures.
Seralini republished: Roundup-ready GMO maize causes serious health damage Oliver Tickell | 25th June 2014 News GMOs Health Science Farming Food seralini-cut.jpg A scientific study that identified …
Those opposed to the mass release of GM crops and foods inadequately tested for health and ecological safety are routinely accused of being anti-science, writes Elizabeth Henderson. But it's the GM corporations and their academic allies that are suppressing scientific research, and organic farmers that are building alliances with independent scientists for a future of safe, healthy food.
Organic farmers are not anti-science - we leave that to the genetic engineers Elizabeth Henderson | 24th May 2016 News GMOs Science Technology Farming USA Ecology clover-cut.jpg Those opposed to the …
160 global groups have called for a moratorium on new 'genetic extinction' technology at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Cancun, Mexico. Gene drive technology, they say, poses serious and irreversible threats to biodiversity, national sovereignty, peace and food security.
Biodiversity Convention call to block new 'genetic extinction' GMOs GMWatch The Ecologist | 6th December 2016 News GMOs Science Biodiversity Un Mexico aphids-cut.jpg 160 global groups have called for …
Scientists have discovered that exposure to three widely used herbicides including Monsanto's Roundup and Kamba causes pathogenic bacteria to develop resistance to medically important antibiotics.
Glyphosate, 2,4-D, dicamba herbicides cause antibiotic resistance The Ecologist | 30th March 2015 News Health Farming Corporations GMOs Science roundup-sft-cut.jpg Scientists have discovered that …
The more the GM industry claims to enjoy the support of 'science', the more it resorts to emotive attack and insult against its opponents, while doing its best to suppress the many scientific truths that are not to its liking, writes Colin Todhunter. In truth it is driven by profit, politics and ideology, and is based on fraud and the capture and corruption of governments and regulators.
… that determine plentiful, affordable food and sustainability. As the backbone of global food …
The Amazon forest both depends on, and sustains, vast 'flying rivers' that carry humid air and clouds deep into the continental interior, writes Jan Rocha. But scientists fear the flying rivers are failing due to deforestation, fire and climate change.
Drought bites as the Amazon's 'flying rivers' fail Jan Rocha | 20th September 2014 News Climate Change Forests Water Farming Science amazon-flying-river-cut.jpg The Amazon forest both depends on, and …
Global CO2 emissions need to fall by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, and reach net zero by 2050 in order to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C.
Climate transition must be 'rapid and far-reaching' Catherine Early | 8th October 2018 News Climate Change Ipcc Global Warming Science Un systemchangenotclimatechange_bbymtn2014_markklotz_0.jpg …
Thousands of protesters have occupied a coal mine near Cologne - the single largest emitter of CO2 in Europe. NICK MEYNEN argues that history is on their side, especially when politicians fail to take heed of climate science
… the Project Officer for Global Policies and Sustainability at the European Environmental …
The climate change discourse rarely looks beyond 2100, writes Pete Dolack. Maybe that's because even at current levels of CO2, we are committed to thousands of years of warming and polar ice melt that will raise sea levels by at least six meters. However the implacable imperatives of capitalism mean there's little prospect of change for a long time to come.
The world is already committed to a six meter sea level rise Pete Dolack Systemic Disorder | 24th July 2015 News Climate Change Oceans Science Emissions Arctic Antarctic antarctic-icefront.jpg …
Increased atmospheric CO2 is doing much more than warming the Earth, writes Tony Juniper - it's also acidifying oceans, something that is already having major impacts on ocean ecology in the Southern Ocean and the North Atlantic. Likely effects: more CO2 in the atmosphere, more jellyfish.
… Tony Juniper is a campaigner, writer, sustainability advisor and leading British …
In Brazil's microcephaly epidemic, one vital question remains unanswered: how did the Zika virus suddenly learn how to disrupt the development of human embryos? The answer may lie in a sequence of 'jumping DNA' used to engineer the virus's mosquito vector - and released into the wild four years ago in the precise area of Brazil where the microcephaly crisis is most acute.
Pandora's box: how GM mosquitos could have caused Brazil's microcephaly disaster Oliver Tickell | 1st February 2016 News Health GMOs Science Technology Brazil Corporations aedes-aegypti-cut.jpg In …
New research warns that rising temperatures will reduce the mountain snow in 97 major river basins worldwide, writes Tim Radford - cutting summer water supply to 2 billion people in lowland areas who depend on the meltwaters.
Global warming reduces snows that water 2 billion people Tim Radford | 24th November 2015 News Water Climate Change Science mountain-snow-cut.jpg New research warns that rising temperatures will …
A USDA study shows that a GM alfalfa has gone wild in alfalfa-growing parts of the West. This may explain GMO contamination incidents that have cost US growers and exporters millions of dollars - and it exposes the failure of USDA's 'coexistence' policy for GMOs and traditional crops.
Feral 'Roundup Ready' GM alfalfa goes wild in US West Bill Freese Center for Food Safety | 19th January 2016 News GMOs USA Farming Trade Science Law Regulation alfalfa-sandwich-cut.jpg A USDA study …
Golden Rice will only strengthen the grip of corporations over rice and agriculture, endangering agrobiodiversity and human health.
Golden Rice is 'trojan horse' Stop Golden Rice Network | 19th August 2020 | News GMO Genetic Modification Golden Rice Asia Food Systems Science Systems Science & Systems Stop Golden Rice Golden Rice …
The last 30 years of European summers have been the hottest in thousands of years, writes Alex Kirby, and we had better start getting used to it - most of all in the Mediterranean and the Arctic, where a 1.5C global temperature rise could be amplified to 3.4C and 6C respectively.
… Changes (PAGES), a core project of the global sustainability science programme, Future Earth …
The world's smart money is piling into renewable energy, solar power in particular, write Tim Radford & Oliver Tickell, as renewables pull away from fossil fuels in terms of both investment and new generation capacity added each year.
Investors pile in as renewables rise to record level Tim Radford Oliver Tickell | 16th April 2015 News Renewables Solar Science USA ivanhaw-solar-cut.jpg The world's smart money is piling into …
We may need to alter how we use land across the world to reduce the risk of future spillovers of infectious diseases, study finds.
Land use linked to disease outbreaks Staff Reporter | 5th August 2020 News Science Systems Disease Health Zoonosis Land Use Factory farmed pig We may need to alter how we use land across the world to …
The Grizzly bear hunting season is under way in British Columbia, Canada. The government claims that the decision to open the hunt and the kill quotas are 'science-based' but as Kyle Artelle writes, science doesn't get a look in - and the Grizzlies' are in serious danger.
… for claiming in a press release that sustainability of the hunt was confirmed by …