After a run of low quality GM cotton crops with unusually short fibres, Burkina Faso has ended its love affair with Monsanto's Bt cotton, writes Claire Robinson. In a further blow to the company, growers are demanding $280 million compensation for their losses.
… Affairs , which is published by Oxford University Press. The authors are Brian … the International Studies Department at the University of San Francisco and Matthew A. … Development Studies at Dalhousie University. The briefing traces the rapid …
After over a century of coal ash and colliery waste dumping, the Tyne and Wear coastline is no stranger to industrial pollution. But soon a horrific new technology - underground coal gasification (UCG) - will endanger human health and the environment, backed by unflinching Government support and generous lashings of taxpayers' money.
… also has strong connections to Newcastle University - which, given their science … , is a recently appointed member of Newcastle University's Council - but perhaps more … Younger . He was a professor at Newcastle University who moved to Glasgow University in …
The Council of Monte Maiz, a small town in Argentina surrounded by intensive GMO soya farms, has enacted a law that forbids the spraying and storage of pesticides and other agrochemicals after severe health impacts were detected.
… Dr Vazquez Medardo Avila, the doctor from the University of Cordoba who led the survey, … puso un freno a los agrotóxicos '. GMWatch: ' University’s attack on cancer researcher …
The 'Kevin Folta affair' has cast the hard light of day into the dubious PR tactics of the GMO industry, writes Claire Robinson - recruiting and paying scientists as secret shills to promulgate a pro-GM message without revealing their funding sources.
… the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. Monsanto executives … year he wrote , "The bottom line is that my university operates under the Sunshine Law. …
Is the light brown apple moth such a danger to crops both agricultural and financial that the US government will risk the health of its citizens to eradicate it? They spray, you pay, warns Claire Robinson
… Daniel Harder, director of the Arboretum at University of California, Santa Cruz, called … of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, … and health) and a faculty member of the University of California San Francisco …
A BBC documentary claimed 90% success for a controversial GM crop in Bangladesh, Bt brinjal, writes Claire Robinson. But as journalist Faisal Rahman discovered, there's no evidence to support the claim, the BBC relied on biased sources, and its journalists failed to investigate reports of widespread crop failure. Was it all an exercise in pro-GMO propaganda?
… briefly flashed up on the screen as "Cornell University" . Cornell and the Bangladesh … and the rest of South Asia. Cornell University is home to the controversial … that the Bt brinjal gene was given by Cornell University, "not an agritech company" . …
There's absolutely no evidence for BBC Panorama's claim of 90% success for Bt brinjal in Bangladesh, writes Claire Robinson. But that has not stopped the BBC Trust from dismissing all complaints against its monstrously dishonest report. Nor has it diminished the jubilation of GMO cheerleaders.
… for the 90% success claim was Cornell University. Yet when I challenged Sarah … programme's claims? Its report says, "Cornell University is a highly credible source and it …
In the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 we have found oil slicks and debris everywhere - none of it connected to the missing plane, writes Paul Mobbs. The seas are littered with human trash, and it's killing the oceanic ecosystem.
… and R.J.B. Peters, RIKILT Wageningen University Research/Dutch Ministry of Economic …
A consistent pattern is emerging in the UK government's plans and policies, writes Paul Mobbs: the stripping away of human rights and freedoms; the detachment of public institutions from democratic accountability; an increase of the powers of the state; and the empowerment of corporations at the expense of people. We must act to preserve our liberties, while we still can.
Behind the Magna Carta spin, Britain's 'dictatorship of the 1%' is taking shape Paul Mobbs | 11th June 2015 News Human Rights Politics UK Society Fracking Health great-dictator-cut.png A consistent …
Those who dare suggest that pesticides might be implicated in Brazil's microcephaly outbreak are being furiously attacked as irrational, nonsense-spouting 'conspiracy theorists', writes Claire Robinson. But the attackers have an uncanny ability to get their own facts in a twist. And among them are writers linked to industries with huge economic interests in the matter.
… Andrew Noymer, a social epidemiologist at the University of California, Irvine, replied : …
Greenpeace is being attacked for 'crimes against humanity' by 100 Nobel laureates for blocking GMO 'golden' rice, reports Claire Robinson. But the low-yielding crop is years away from going on sale, and there is no proof of any nutritional benefit to the malnourished children it's meant to benefit. Could the distinguished prize-winners have fallen for slick pro-GMO PR and spin?
… sciences and professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, revealed … Devon G. Peña, PhD, an anthropologist at the University of Washington Seattle and an expert …
Andres Carrasco's research linking a controversial herbicide with birth defects highlighted the potential health dangers posed by GM crop-spraying in Argentina – and led to violence and intimidation for those behind the study
… Andres Carrasco, lead embryologist at the University of Buenos Aires Medical School and …
The UK Government's policy is to frack at all costs, against public opinion and compelling evidence of environmental damage and poor returns, writes Paul Mobbs - a timely reminder that as far as the Government is concerned, it has a God-given right to rule over us, no matter what we think or want.
… or the SPEAK protests outside Oxford University . SHAC began in the late 1990s in … to proposals at Cambridge, and them Oxford University to carry out tests on primates. …
Medact, the organization of health professionals for a safer, fairer and better world, has called for a five year moratorium on fracking due to its serious hazards to public health, writes Paul Mobbs. Their new report is a powerful challenge to government policy that cannot be ignored.
… Departments of Environment and Health by the University of Maryland School of Public …
Food is so much more than a heap of pre-processed consumer products snatched from supermarket shelves or websites, writes Paul Mobbs. And the key to unlocking its deeper meaning is to prepare, bake and cook your own from basic ingredients: in the process expressing creativity, developing skills, building independence from the industrial food machine, meditating in doing, saving money ... and making some pretty amazing hummus!
… Harried Leisure Class , by Columbia / Yale University social-economist Steffan Linder, …
A new study shows that the market-leading Roundup herbicide kills soil microbiota at concentrations 50 times lower than used in agriculture, writes Claire Robinson. The findings raise serious new concerns about the environmental impacts of glyphosate herbicides.
… and researcher in molecular genetics at the University Paris-Sud, France. The team studied …
A new scientific paper presents the radiation produced by fracking as 'natural' and harmless. But it's based on sketchy data, hyperbolic statistics and questionable assumptions, writes Paul Mobbs. Is it an attempt to stifle an essential public debate?
… last week. With little fanfare, Durham University issued a press release to publicise …
A recent scientific study found the same long-chain omega-3 oils that are engineered into a new GM Camelina oilseed variety make butterflies grow up with deformed wings, writes Claire Robinson. Attempts by the 'pro-science' non-scientist Mark Lynas to discredit the study are a mixture of ignorance, research failures, 'straw man' arguments and outright errors.
… professor of agronomy at Fort Valley State University, confirms that cabbage whites feed …
It looked like such a good idea: take the pressure off wild fish stocks by growing GM oilseeds that produce health-enhancing long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, writes Claire Robinson. But as a new study has established, those fish oils, novel in terrestrial ecosystems, cause wing deformities in cabbage white butterflies. Yet a third open field trial of these GM crops could soon be under way.
… most of whom are based at Ryerson University in Ontario, Canada, concluded that …
Cutting-edge molecular profiling analyses reveal that the popular weedkiller Roundup causes serious liver damage to rats at low doses permitted by regulators, reports Claire Robinson. The findings suggest that residues of glyphosate-based herbicides in food could be linked to rises in the incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, diabetes and 'metabolic syndrome'.
… study led by Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini of the University of Caen, France. In this original …
The US government has given he go-ahead for a test plot of genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus trees in Alabama. For the first time, these trees will be allowed to flower and set seed, opening the door to potential widespread contamination of the American South.
… the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis at Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, and …
Political support for fracking is not just about energy, writes Paul Mobbs. It reflects the greater ecological and resource crisis at the root of our current economic woes - and only postpones the essential shift to a new kind of economy.
… unrepresentative 'non-randomised' survey by a university department which has previously …
UK politicians and officials are studiously ignoring the growing evidence that fracking is an economic and environmental disaster, writes Paul Mobbs. As the circle of 'acceptable' view spins ever smaller, industry PR is dominating a phoney debate that's increasingly remote from reality, public opinion and core democratic principles.
… Another panel member is a professor at the University of Manchester - where research …
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.
… been published - by Allen et al. [21] at the University of Texas. A week after MacKay and …