Environment
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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
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Bill Gates finances lobby for “new GMOs” in Europe
These new revelations from Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) are crucially important to read and understand if we want to preserve our democracy and food freedom. Please alert all your contacts. Continue reading
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European Group on Ethics presents biased and inaccurate report on new genetic engineering
The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE), which advises the EU Commission, has published its report on New Genetic Engineering (New GE or gene editing). The report deals with New GE applications in humans, animals and plants. While the report makes thoughtful points on gene editing in humans and livestock animals,… Continue reading
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Fuels errand
5 March 2021 — DesSmogUK This year’s spring budget was like the worst kind of meal: A lot of fanfare before it, yet in the tasting rather bland, leaving much to be desired. There were crumbs to be had. Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced plans for the “world’s first” green bond, designed to give UK savers… Continue reading
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Global Breaking News on GMOs and Pesticides 5 March 2021
5 March 2021 — Sustainable Pulse Glyphosate Releases DDT and Chlordecone from Soil into Water by Increasing Erosion – New Study The toxic pesticide chlordecone was used on banana plantations in the French West Indies until 1993 but continued to pollute the waters surrounding the islands long afterwards. This pollution puzzled researchers, who expected the… Continue reading
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GMO Soy, Popular Resistance, and Corporate Power
Why does GMO soy dominate Argentine agriculture? ‘Seeds of Power’ exposes the forces that have overwhelmed voices of resistance. Continue reading
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The Ministry for the Future: A passionate call to save the earth
With all the environmental threats that humanity faces, it can be hard to be optimistic. This is reflected in the plethora of disaster novels that have appeared in recent years, whether inspired by climate change or pandemic, that explore in the appalling consequences of disease, floods, famine and so-on. Kim Stanley Robinson’s latest novel also… Continue reading
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The Monsanto Papers – Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice
The Monsanto Papers is the inside story of Lee Johnson’s landmark lawsuit against Monsanto. For Lee, the case was a race against the clock, with doctors predicting he wouldn’t survive long enough to take the witness stand. For the eclectic band of young, ambitious lawyers representing him, it was a matter of professional pride and personal risk,… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 