An inaugural interactive workshop discussing historic and future sea level trends and their implications for Virginia’s Eastern Shore is planned for June....
The 10 major corporations that control everything...
It's no secret that corporate conglomerates basically run consumer goods, swallowing up smaller businesses like voracious monsters in order to maximize their...
Syngenta, Dow AgroSciences to Offer Reduced...
MINNETONKA, Minn. and INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - May 17, 2012 Syngenta and Dow AgroSciences LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: Dow),...
Obama campaign stop in Iowa at factory farm setting...
Today President Barack Obama will return to Iowa for an official “grassroots event” at the Iowa State Fair in an effort to fire up his base in the...
Agent Orange could spoil DOW's Olympic sponsorship
Last year, India asked the International Olympics Committee (IOC) to discontinue Dow Chemical’s sponsorship of the upcoming London Olympics, citing the...
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Following years of intense pressure from the agribusiness sector, Brazil's parliament has approved destructive reforms to the country's forest protection....
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"When Great Ideas Rise" Gluten sensitivity affects many people around the world. Learn how Dow has developed a plant-based cellulose that mimics gluten...
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I made a career of sorts writing about the "big six" agrichemical companies—Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont, Syngenta, and BASF—that produce the...
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Mexico and Central America look like they are covered in dried blood on maps projecting future soil moisture conditions. The results from 19 different...
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Doug has type 1 diabetes and he's running across the country to raise awareness.
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The past 12 months were the hottest on record, and forecasters are predicting high temperatures across the U.S. this summer. Science and environment contributor M....
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Members of the Group of Eight, in a declaration, said deep-water drilling and hydraulic fracturing were key to a safe and secure energy future. The G8...
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Fifty-five percent of global atmospheric carbon captured by living organisms happens in the ocean. Between 50-71 percent of this is captured by the ocean’s...
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Nearly one in four American adolescents may be on the verge of developing Type 2 diabetes or could already be diabetic, representing a sharp increase in the...
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I'm doing something very odd this week: speaking at the annual conference of Croplife America, the main trade group for the US agrichemical industry. Croplife...
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Spain has faced the driest winter ever recorded. It has raised red flags in Spain, where farmers face the threat of extreme drought. Grain crops in Spain are...
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Rachel and Elanor from Well Rounded Comedy discuss HBO's "The Weight of the Nation" along with other current developments in the obesity epidemic....
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The wettest drought on record: torrential rain still can't bring England out of "exceptional" dry...Even with the wettest April on record, some areas of England are still facing “exceptional” drought conditions. After two years of dry winters —...
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Well well, President Obama is rubbing elbows with Hugh Grant CEO of Monsanto today at this symposium as well as other chemical polluters like Syngenta. If you read...
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Here’s what happens when corporations begin to control education. "When I approached professors to discuss research projects addressing organic...
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Millions of people are locked in a vicious cycle of hunger and poverty. Poverty means parents can't feed their families enough nutritious food, leaving children...
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It's been almost 35 years since Lois Gibbs became an environmental activist after she discovered her 7-year-old son's elementary school in Niagara Falls,...
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In the mid 1980s, scientists unlocked the genetic keys to manipulating our world. Suddenly everything seemed possible! There would be no more hunger or malnutrition;...
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