Jun 17, 2019 | Featured, Forests, GE American Chestnut, New and Extreme Technologies, No GE Trees News, Press Coverage, Social Media News
The GE American Chestnut: Restoration of a Beloved Species or Trojan Horse for Tree Biotechnology? Counterpunch, 14 June 2019 by RACHEL SMOLKER – ANNE PETERMANN About a century ago the American chestnut tree was attacked by the introduced fungal pathogen...
Jun 14, 2019 | Featured, Forests, GE American Chestnut, New and Extreme Technologies, No GE Trees News, Social Media News
This article was the Editor’s pick in The Ecologist. Tree biotech and the American chestnut The American chestnut is being used as a PR tool for winning over public opinion on the use of biotechnology as a ‘tool of conservation’. The Ecologist By...
Jun 14, 2019 | Featured, Forests, GE American Chestnut, New and Extreme Technologies, No GE Trees News, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News
GE American Chestnut — Restoration of a Beloved Species or Trojan Horse for Tree Biotechnology? Biotech industry hopes that getting genetically engineered chestnut approved for conservation planting will soften public opposition to transgenic trees. Earth...
Jun 12, 2019 | Featured, Forests, GE American Chestnut, New and Extreme Technologies, No GE Trees News, Press Coverage, Social Media News
The GE American Chestnut – Restoration of a Beloved Species or Trojan Horse for Tree Biotechnology? Independent Science News, 11 June 2019: by Rachel Smolker, Ph.D. (Biofuelwatch) and Anne Petermann (Global Justice Ecology Project) About a century ago the American...
Dec 20, 2018 | Featured, Food Sovereignty, GMOs, Indigenous Peoples, New and Extreme Technologies, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, Videos
Target Malaria, a research consortium funded largely by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Open Philanthropy Project, aims to introduce ‘gene drive’ mosquitoes in Burkina Faso supposedly to eliminate malaria. Gene drives are new...