Apr 20, 2016 | Featured, Latin America, Social Media News, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
Suit Filed Six Years After Tragic Offshore Oil Spill Began WASHINGTON— Six years exactly after the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing 11 people and unleashing the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history, the Center for Biological...
Feb 22, 2016 | Featured, GMOs, Monsanto & Glyphosate, No GE Trees News, Paraguay, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, UN Climate COPs
Top Photo: anti-Monsanto protest in Asuncion, Paraguay, 2014. Photolangelle.org A court has ruled that French Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini was correct when he concluded that GMO food, when fed to rats, caused serious health problems including tumors....
Jan 13, 2016 | Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Earth Watch, Environmental Justice, Protests & Resistance, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
The regular “Earth Minute” segment returns to KPFK radio’s Sojourner Truth show, with Global Justice Ecology Project’s Anne Petermann reporting on the latest developments in the environmental justice movement and highlighting the proliferation of...
Jan 7, 2016 | No GE Trees News, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
New York (8 January 2015) – Biotech firm ArborGen, a leader in the research and development of genetically engineered trees (GE trees), has been fined $53.5 million in compensation and punitive damages after a court ruled that it acted to use “trickery and...