Environment
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Regenerative organic farming, not GM, is the solution to the climate crisis
On March 22, 2021, The Del Mar Garden Club of Southern California held an informational session called “Fighting climate change with plants”. As a person who is extremely concerned about the looming apocalyptic events due to climate chaos, but not extremely well informed about what we can do to prevent them, I signed up. Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides
7 May 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Soil Biodiversity Under Grave Threat from Pesticides – Most Comprehensive Review Ever A new study published Tuesday by the academic journal Frontiers in Environmental Science finds that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose a grave threat to organisms that are critical to healthy soil, biodiversity and soil carbon Continue reading
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Proven: Glyphosate herbicides change gene function and cause DNA damage
BOMBSHELL FINDING COULD END EU AUTHORIZATION OF GLYPHOSATE. REPORT: CLAIRE ROBINSON Glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup activate mechanisms involved in cancer development, including DNA damage – and these effects occur at doses assumed by regulators to have no adverse effects, a new study shows. The DNA damage was caused by oxidative stress, a destructive imbalance… Continue reading
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Water – Free ebook download
This book discusses various aspects of the relationship of water with human society, and with all life on planet earth. Because of climate change, some regions are increasingly threatened by drought, while others experience catastrophic floods. Continue reading
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The Destructive Human Health and Environmental Impacts of Glyphosate Based Herbicide
On 9 April 2021, retired physician and health and environmental campaigner Dr Rosemary Mason wrote to the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA). She wanted to draw the agency’s attention to the findings that indicate the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes high levels of mortality following contact exposure in bumble bees (glyphosate-formulated herbicides are the most widely… Continue reading
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Pollution Report: Oceans are ‘at the precipice of disaster’
A report released today by the International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) and the National Toxics Network (NTN) says that rising levels of chemical and plastic pollution are major contributors to declines in the world’s fish populations and other aquatic organisms. Continue reading
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DESMOGUK 23 April 2021: The Greenwashing Files – ‘A great deception’
23 April 2021 — DESMOGUK Crashing waves, sun-bathed wind turbines, bright green algae farms. Also: women running up a steep hill, a newborn’s feet, a smiling scientist, a child in their father’s arms. Emotive imagery of nature and family life are central to adverts made by some of the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitters, all Continue reading
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China: Battles Lost, Wars Won: An Environmentalist’s Story
16 April, 2021 — Sixth Tone After Friends of Nature director-general Zhang Boju saw his activism fail, he went another route. Li You This story is part of Sixth Tone’s five-year anniversary project Changemakers. The future of China’s environment depends to no small degree on a windowless meeting room at the center of a tiny 21st-floor office Continue reading
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The myth of a food crisis
12 April 2021 — GMWatch No matter where one looks in global agriculture, food prices are low because products are in surplus Following is an excellent article about a new peer-reviewed paper with a message that should be highlighted first and last in any discussion about the supposed need for GMOs and pesticides in order Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 9 April 2021
9 April 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Editors’ picks Glyphosate Hacks Hormones of Baby Girls after Exposure in the Womb – New Groundbreaking Pilot Study A group of international scientists from the U.S. and EU have released a peer-reviewed pilot study that suggests the anogenital distance of baby girls is becoming more male-typical, due to their Continue reading
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Uneven Earth – March readings
Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for action and education. Continue reading
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Glyphosate Hacks Hormones of Baby Girls after Exposure in the Womb – New Groundbreaking Pilot Study
A group of international scientists from the U.S. and EU have released a peer-reviewed pilot study that suggests the anogenital distance of baby girls is becoming more male-typical, due to their mothers being exposed to glyphosate when they are in the womb. Continue reading
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Roundup surfactants measured in urine, paving the way for biomonitoring in people
An important new step has been taken towards measuring glyphosate herbicide surfactants in the urine of people exposed to Roundup, with the publication of a new study in rats. Surfactants are a type of added ingredient, or adjuvant, that are added to herbicide formulations along with the so-called active ingredient – in the case of… Continue reading
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Masks Are a Ticking Time Bomb
The planet may be facing a new plastic crisis, similar to the one brought on by bottled water, but this time involving discarded face masks. “Mass masking” continues to be recommended by most public health groups during the COVID-19 pandemic, despite research showing masks do not significantly reduce the incidence of infection. Continue reading
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Make your town or city pesticide-free!
We need a London Mayor that will tackle the renting crisis and ensure renters have access to safe, secure and genuinely affordable homes. Will you join us in our call for a London Mayor for Renters? Ask the candidates if they will adopt Generation Rent’s policies to fix London’s housing crisis here. Continue reading
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Why new genetic techniques need to be stringently regulated – study
Terms such as “like nature”, “precise”, and “no foreign genes” are being wrongly applied to new GM techniques Continue reading
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The Agri-Food Model, Unregulated Gene Editing Technologies
6 April 2021 — Global Research Four Words Gates and His Pals Despise: Democracy and Minimum Support Price By Colin Todhunter The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and an assortment of high-profile figures and policy makers are pushing for unregulated gene-editing technologies, the rollout of bio-synthetic food created in laboratories, the expanded use of patented Continue reading
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Pesticide toxicity to invertebrates and pollinators increasing in GM crops
Some just published research in the journal Science completely demolishes claims that the impact of pesticides is declining and that GM crops are contributing to this positive trend. Continue reading
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EU: Vice-President Timmermans, don’t deregulate GM crops and animals
New GM techniques can cause unwanted genetic errors that can result in the production of novel toxins or allergens, warn civil society and farmer groups Continue reading
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Revealed: The new lobbying effort to deregulate GMOs
A new investigation by the NGO Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), published on Monday (29 March), has uncovered how fresh lobbying strategies aimed at deregulating modern genetic techniques are driven by various academic and biotech research institutes with corporate interests – using ‘climate-friendly’ narratives. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 