Environment
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 20 July 2020
20 July 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Pesticides Increase Transmission of Debilitating Snail Fever Affecting Hundreds of Millions of People Widespread use of pesticides, including the world’s most used herbicide, glyphosate, can speed the transmission of the debilitating disease schistosomiasis (snail fever), while also upsetting the ecological balances in aquatic environments that prevent infections,… Continue reading
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Is lab-grown meat the future of food?
Documentary on ‘clean meat’ fails to question the technology’s rationale and blindly accepts dubious claims made by its promoters Continue reading
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DesSmog UK: Appointing the experts
17 July 2020 — DesSmogUK Who would you call if you were to set up a group to maintain “animal welfare and environmental standards” in post-Brexit trade deals? Someone who knew about and enjoyed protecting environmental standards, perhaps? Maybe someone who knew about and liked animal welfare? Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 13 July 2020
13 July 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks India Set to Restrict Who Can Spray Glyphosate Herbicides in Big Blow for Bayer Glyphosate is the most used weedkiller in India with over 675,000 Kg of it spread on Indian farmland in 2018-2019, however a new change on who is allowed to spray glyphosate, which is… Continue reading
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Oil giants want to plant their way to Net Zero
You’d be hard-pressed to find an environmentalist who doesn’t want to see more of the planet covered in forests – there’s a reason why that “tree-hugger” label has stuck over the years. Continue reading
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Tonnes of ‘recycled’ European plastic pollute the oceans
Researchers from National University of Ireland Galway and the University of Limerick have concluded that “Recycling of European plastic is a pathway for plastic debris in the ocean.” That’s the title of a study published this week in the journal Environment International, showing that much of the plastic supposedly recycled by the EU, UK, Switzerland… Continue reading
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GM groups call on the public: Ask Ministers to reject plans to de-regulate gene editing
Three of the UK’s largest GM campaigns – GM Freeze, Beyond GM and GMWatch – have joined together to oppose an amendment to the Agriculture Bill that would give the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs George Eustice, the power to change the definition of a GMO and re-classify many forms of… Continue reading
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Gene Editing: Scientifically indefensible, anti-democratic, and harmful to trade
An amendment has been tabled[1] in the UK House of Lords to the Agriculture Bill, seeking to change the definition of a genetically modified organism (GMO) in the UK’s Environmental Protection Act (1990) in order to exempt certain types of new genetic modification techniques, such as gene editing, from GMO regulations, within the context of… Continue reading
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UK confirms it will not align with EU chemicals agency
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has confirmed that the UK will implement its own version of the EU chemical regulatory system, REACH, at the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December. The UK is still operating under EU REACH until then, but has no say on the regulations. Despite… Continue reading
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Challenge eyed to class action plan for Bayer Roundup settlement
A plan to delay any new Roundup cancer claims for years and shift the key question of whether or not the weed killer causes cancer from a jury to a hand-picked panel of scientists faces potential opposition from some of the plaintiffs’ attorneys who initiated and led the mass tort claims against Roundup maker Monsanto,… Continue reading
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DeSmog UK Weekly: Leading by leaving
19 June 2020 — DeSmog UK It has perhaps been a long time coming, but the UK government is finally thinking about putting its money where it’s mouth is. Or should that be withdrawing its money from where its mouth shouldn’t be? This week, it was announced that the government was considering steps to stop supporting fossil… Continue reading
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Resetting the economy – for social need not profit
In a recent World Economic Forum (WEF) virtual meeting, the ageing heir to the British monarchy, Prince Charles spoke with IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva. Charles’s speech was part of a launch event for The Great Reset, a project involving the WEF and the Prince of Wales’s Sustainable Markets Initiative, aimed at rebuilding the economic and social system… Continue reading
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DeSmog UK Weekly: Leading from the back
That’s the latest language coming from Alok Sharma, the UK’s Business Secretary and COP26 chief (get well soon!), as the government urges countries, companies, and everyone else to “build back better” in the wake of COVID-19. Continue reading
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Poisons Mean Extinction: For Bees and Humanity
The choices before humanity are clear, a Poison Free Future to save Bees, Farmers, our Food and Humanity. Or continue to use poisons, threatening our common future by walking blindly to extinction through the arrogance that we can substitute bees with artificial intelligence and robots. Continue reading
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Pandemic: ‘This is a time for bold programs from the left’
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Glyphosate Overuse Leads to Serious Immune System Concerns
16 May 2020 — Sustainable Pulse Editorial By Henry Rowlands, Sustainable Pulse Director In a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is dominating the global psyche, it is of course important to delve deeper into the background reasons for the failure of our immune systems to be able to cope with the serious threat of infectious… Continue reading
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COVID-19 bulletin 12: link between high levels of air pollution and deaths from the coronavirus
A Moseley resident drew attention to yesterday’s Guardian article which reported that high levels of air pollution may be “one of the most important contributors” to deaths from Covid-19, according to research conducted by a geoscientist Dr Yaron Ogen, at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg in Germany Continue reading
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Coronavirus shows we must change how we live or face self-destruction
EXCERPT: Indigenous societies… are based on worldviews where human needs are balanced with the needs of other life forms. This worldview inherently acknowledges the constraints of an ecosystem, the essence of sustainability. When the integrity of an ecosystem is guarded, the integrity and very existence of human communities are guarded as well. In a philosophical… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 