The NYT's expose of Kevin Folta's PR role as a pro-GMO shill in the employ of Monsanto barely scratched the surface of a huge web of corporate money, influence and intrigue that permeates the US's premier universities and scientific institutions, writes Jonathan Latham - from Harvard and Cornell to the AAAS. Why the reticence to name all the names?
… , Chair of the Dept. of Horticulture at the University of Florida secretly took expenses … similarly expose Bruce Chassy (Prof Emeritus, University of Illinois) and David Shaw (Mississippi State University). It also discussses, presumably …
Cornell student Robert Schooler was shocked at the pro-GMO propaganda emanating from Cornell University and it's Gates-funded 'Alliance for Science'. But rather than just complain about it, he decided to fight back - with his popular 'GMOWTF' website and an important lecture series this fall by GMO experts on the Cornell campus - the ones that Cornell has been ignoring for years.
… Pro-GMO propaganda at Cornell University - a student fights back Robert … the pro-GMO propaganda emanating from Cornell University and it's Gates-funded 'Alliance for … years. My name is Robert, and I am a Cornell University undergraduate student. However, I'm …
Michael Mann will be remembered as the creator of the 'hockey stick' graph of rising global temperatures, which has put him forever in the crosshairs of climate change sceptics. But as Brendan Montague found, he is a curiously unlikely hero, or villain: rather a dedicated scientist living the American dream, who just happened, to his own surprise, to stumble on something big.
… for dirt. The hacker who broke into the University of East Anglia servers during … System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, Mann is married to Lorraine, a cell biologist also working at the university. The two met at an event in an …
More than 8,500 separate fires burned during 2018 in California, making them the deadliest and most destructive of any year in the state’s history.
… Sustainability , academics from UCL, the University of California, Irvine, China’s Tsinghua University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics combined …
Boycott Coca-Cola and make money for the victims of Coca-Cola. How much can we make?
… banned Coke from their campuses. New York University will vote on a ban this month. … a public debate between Coke and Leeds University students, the latter said: … will lead to the removal of Coke from Leeds University property. In November around 100 …
They promote GMOs, defend toxic chemicals, and attack people who raise concerns about those products as 'anti-science'. But behind the slick 'astroturf' PR fronts lurk some very dubious funders: the same arch-conservative foundations that finance climate science denial. Stacy Malkan exposes the key players in the agribusiness and chemical industry propaganda wars.
… the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cornell University and the University of California, Davis. Yet their … groups, according to a 2013 study by Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle, PhD. …
Resistance is growing in Todos Santos, Baja California, to a tourism and University campus mega-development of 4,500 homes that claims to be 'free range and locally sourced', writes Viviane Mahieux. It has already grossly disfigured one of Mexico most gorgeous beaches, while locals fear it will drain their aquifers and obliterate a harmonious community.
… Santos, Baja California, to a tourism and University campus mega-development of 4,500 … itself as mindful and an ethically murky university campus. A real-estate project … has already inaugurated Colorado State University's first international campus , …
Patented and 'indentured' seeds are fast taking over the world's food supply, write Jack Kloppenburg & Irwin Goldman, terminating farmers' and gardeners' ancient right to develop new varieties, and forcing them to buy seed anew for every crop. Enter the Open Source Seed Initiative ...
… kicked off its outreach activities on the University of Wisconsin campus on April 17 … malting barley from Pat Hayes of Oregon State University, Midnight Lightning zucchini from … Organic Seeds, and Sovereign carrots from the University of Wisconsin's Irwin Goldman. Most …
Tyrone Hayes has fought a 15-year battle with Syngenta following his discovery that its herbicide Atrazine scrambles sex in frogs, writes F William Engdahl. Now he wants to know - is Atrazine the cause of the US's 2-fold reproductive cancer excess among Blacks and Hispanics?
… used to silence him. This story of a Berkeley University biology professor who conducted … studies available" were done, often without university financial support, because of the … the experiments using funds from Berkeley University and the National Science …
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.
… and Natural Resources Washington State University Alison Bleaney, M.B., Ch.B., FACRRM … School of Community Health, Portland State University; Social Justice Committee & Board … Adjunct Professor Dept. of Biology, Duke University Elizabeth Frost, M.D. Medical …
Environmental injustice is deeply embedded in American attitudes, says Robert D. Bullard, and the lead pollution of Flint's water is but the latest example of an unconscious yet pervasive discrimination against poor and minority communities across the US. Only with strong, deliberate and effective leadership can the EPA and other regulators overcome their prejudices.
… injustice Robert D. Bullard Texas Southern University | 28th January 2016 Comment … School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University and a pioneering scholar in the … example, Dorceta Taylor and Paul Mohai at the University of Michigan have shown that African …
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.
… that has not been proven by research at a university). But nowhere could I find any … any number of research projects with Cornell University scientists. We have tested cover … are not allowed to save and share the seed. University scientists must have permission …
Lord Smith's views on fracking betray an total ignorance of a large body of published, peer reviewed science that contradicts his conclusions, writes David Lowry - not to mention those of his political masters. Is 'groupthink' leading the UK astray?
… Professor Robert W. Howarth of Cornell University concludes that: "both shale gas and … by independent academic researchers at the University of Missouri, ' Estrogen and … professor of Communication at Seton Hall University wrote of that dreadful tragedy: …
California's worst drought on record is far from over, writes Kieran Cooke. But while residents are getting used to dusty cars and parched lawns, the state's massive agricultural sector is still growing water-intensive crops like rice. How crazy is that?
… Doing the right thing in the environs of the University of California, Davis - one of the … report by climate scientists at Stanford University says the existence of the high …
The fracking boom has caused massive vegetation loss over North America's rangelands, writes Tim Radford, as 3 million hectares have been occupied by oil and gas infrastructure and 34 billion cubic metres of water have been pumped from semi-arid ecosystems.
… professor of rangeland ecology at the University of Montana's College of Forestry …
President Trump comes into office determined to discard huge swathes of his predecessor's legacy on day one, writes Mark Barteau. But he will struggle to undo Obama's clean energy regulations. It's not just that they are legally robust, it's also that energy markets in the US and the wider world have shifted firmly, and irreversibly, towards efficiency and renewables. Sorry, Mr Trump.
… legacy - how long can it last? Mark Barteau University of Michigan | 20th January 2017 … from my perspective as the director of the University of Michigan's Energy Institute, … will not. Mark Barteau is Director, University of Michigan Energy Institute, …
The same pattern of severe droughts that extinguished the Ancient Pueblo culture of the southwest US in the 13th century will come back with a vengeance later this century as climate warms and dries, writes Tim Radford. And it could have precisely the same effect on the region's modern-day residents.
… of the Emergent Climate Risk Lab at Cornell University , warned of future megadroughts … of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa , collected evidence from …
The intimate connection between landscape and religion is at the center of Native American societies, writes Rosalyn R. LaPier, and a key reason why thousands of Native Americans and Indigenous peoples from around the world have traveled to the windswept prairies of North Dakota. There is no excuse for the ignorance and disrespect of corporations, and government.
… religion matters! Rosalyn R. LaPier Harvard University | 8th November 2016 Comment … Studies and Native American Religion, Harvard University. This article was originally …
A new GM bacterium can produce bioethanol from coarse switchgrass, rather than using food crops like maize, writes Tim Radford. It does this by 'digesting' the tough cellulose that yeasts are unable to break down.
… be grown on waste lands Researchers at the University of Georgia at Athens report in the … feasible." Potential competitors The University of Georgia team is only one of …
A six-month investigation finds that the revolving door between government and the chemical industry has led the EPA to rely on easily manipulated toxicology research carried out entirely on computers - and this 'in silico' science often trumps both biology and epidemiology when it comes to regulatory action, or lack of it. The result? Toxic substances remain in everyday products.
… Louis Guillette, a professor at the Medical University of South Carolina famous for … to produce desired outcomes. Or, as University of Notre Dame biologist Kristin … with the bathwater" , says New York University associate professor of …
Wild bee decline is closely associated with the advance of intensive farming and habitat loss, a new study shows. It follows an earlier paper that linked 'delayed action' decline of wild bees to exposure to pesticides including fungicides - previously considered 'bee-safe'.
… News , Taylor Ricketts, PhD, director of the University of Vermont's Gund Institute for … and other pollinators" , said Michigan State University entomologist Rufus Isaacs, who … Earlier this year, researchers at Cornell University found that as the use of …
The struggle for collective rights unites all Indigenous peoples from North America to Palestine, writes Sarah Marusek - as does their common narrative of resistance to colonialism, imperialism and capitalism.
… science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, where her research focused on …
Ample peer-reviewed science says that the number one threat to condor survival is lead poisoning from eating bullets and pellets in carcasses, reports Dawn Starin. But the powerful NRA is fighting hard against bans on lead ammunition.
… the Zoological Society of London and Yale University assessed the world's 9,993 bird … from spent ammunition. A 2012 study by the University of California at Santa Cruz by Myra … Dawn Starin is honorary research associate at University College London. She conducts and …
As the forest fires burn on in the western US, writes Kieran Cooke, a new report predicts that climate-led temperature rise will lead to millions more acres across the world being burned to the ground, especially in southern Europe and Australia.
… Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University, is an internationally-recognised … Forest specialists at Northern Arizona University and elsewhere are now pressing for …