A team of scientists is urging that agriculture be a top priority in climate change negotiations, saying it’s vital for global food security and for reducing...
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The agreement between these studies using a variety of different methods and approaches is quite remarkable. Every study concluded that over the most recent 100-150...
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Robert Kenner (Food Inc.) has done this video for GMO labelling. Freedom on the Internet is important as we all know, but so is freedom to make informed choices about...
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Ignacio Chapela will be familiar to readers of Stuffed and Starved. He’s a soil biologist at Berkeley and an outspoken critic of genetically modified crops, a...
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Did a recent scientific study just change the way we should think about the safety of genetically modified foods? According to Ari Levaux at the Atlantic, the answer...
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Congress is calling SOPA a way to prevent online infringement and piracy. However, those committed to free speech rights and creative innovation know that this is...
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Britain faces hosepipe bans this summer amid warnings that many areas are experiencing alarmingly dry conditions. After many weeks with little rain, southern and...
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Nicotine-based pesticides in widespread use by farmers are implicated in the mass deaths of bees, according to a new study by US scientists. The authoritative,...
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In the past, the bright surface of the Greenland Ice Sheet reflected well over half of the sunlight that fell on it. This reflectiveness helped keep the ice sheet...
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You’ve all heard the news: farmers across the country are losing their fields to superweeds so formidable and fast-spreading that they break farm machinery and...
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A court hearing in New York City at the end of this month will determine if a "pre-emptive" lawsuit by a clutch of U.S. and Canadian organic producers...
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Remarkably, more than half of the country (58%) experienced either a top-ten driest or top-ten wettest year, a new record. Percentage of the contiguous U.S. either...
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Video showing Bhopal victims upping the ante to demand Lord Coe drink a sip of Bhopal water in light of the total apathy to the plight of Bhopal which DOW claims no...
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Rising seas have also begun to have an impact on drinking water, as the salty ocean forces itself into underground aquifers. City planners all along the coast are now...
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"April 27, 2011, Dr. James Hansen received the Green Book Award from the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology. He then gave this...
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From site: "Since we have such an active community of armchair oceanographers and spreadsheet Glaciologists here, I thought it would be useful to speak to the...
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Disclaimer: The events depicted in this video and the previous two parts are of global climate extremes for 2011 that were unusual or extreme in scope and fit the...
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Scientists long puzzled by the rapid decline in millions of Canadian boreal ducks since the 1970s think they may finally have the cause: global warming....
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Yesterday late morning, dozens of people on t invaded the premises of the Monsanto Monbéqui to voice their revendications. / Photo DDM, Chantal Longo....
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Hans Herren, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized scientist specializing in sustainable agriculture. He is president of the Millennium Institute, a non-profit...
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