Hotter planet helping spread of Zika virus mosquitos
Feb 10, 2016, 5:27 am By The EcologistThe Aedes mosquitos that carry the Zika virus and dengue fever are not just perfectly adapted to…Burkina Faso's decision to drop GM cotton and the law of unintended consequences
Feb 9, 2016, 2:18 pm By The EcologistOver 100,000 Burkina Faso farmers were pleased with Monsanto's yield-boosting Bt cotton, write Brian…As flooding in Gaza worsens, the most basic of human rights are under threat
Feb 9, 2016, 11:19 am By The EcologistThe humanitarian crisis in Gaza has worsened after floods and purposeful destruction has taken its…They don't like it up'em: Greenpeace 'frack' Parliament Square
Feb 9, 2016, 9:18 am By The EcologistAs Cuadrilla's application to frack in Lancashire goes to public inquiry today, protestors from…If you think it's bad inside the EU, think again
Feb 9, 2016, 6:36 am By The EcologistA British exit from the EU wouldn't liberate us from the extreme neoliberalism epitomised by TTIP,…‘Land Grabbing’: exposing the impacts of large-scale agriculture on local communities
Feb 8, 2016, 12:18 pm By The EcologistAgriculture is big business and with the EU pumping money at the sector, the corporate profiteers…'Recycling is for drunks, addicts and babushkas' - inside Russia's shadowy waste industry
Feb 8, 2016, 8:42 am By The EcologistOfficial recycling rates in Russia stand at close to zero, writes Minna Halme. But my study of the…Brazil must save Amazon's Kawahiva tribe from genocide
Feb 8, 2016, 6:51 am By The EcologistThe Kawahiva, an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon rainforest, face extinction unless Brazil's…Indian Point reactors contaminate New York groundwater
Feb 8, 2016, 5:30 am By The EcologistHighly radioactive tritium has leaked into groundwater at the Indian Point nuclear site 40 miles…Lies about Assange and UN human rights jurists imperil us all
Feb 6, 2016, 2:13 pm By The EcologistThe defence secretary, 'comedians' on BBC Radio's News Quiz, and the entire media commentariat have…20 years ago today ... What have we learned since the GMO Flavr Savr tomato?
Feb 5, 2016, 1:59 pm By The EcologistTwo decades ago the world's first GM foods went on sale, writes Pat Thomas. The consumer flirtation…Disease may wipe out the world's bananas - unless we adopt agroecological solutions
Feb 5, 2016, 1:39 pm By The EcologistBananas are at the sharp end of industrial agriculture's chemical war on pests and pathogens, writes…Bangladeshi farmers ditch GM brinjal
Feb 5, 2016, 10:00 am By The EcologistCornell’s 'no pest' Bt brinjal project in Bangladesh appears to be going great with 200 farmers…The deprivation of liberty of Mr. Assange is arbitrary and in contravention of his human rights
Feb 5, 2016, 6:28 am By The EcologistThe human rights campaigner Julian Assange has suffered arbitrary detention by the governments of…Saying 'No!' A last chance for the world's forests
Feb 5, 2016, 4:43 am By The EcologistRoads, mines, dams, power lines, pipelines and other infrastructure projects are fast eating into…Fanaticism, fantasy and greed drive TPP 'benefits'
Feb 4, 2016, 9:12 am By The EcologistBoosters of so-called 'free trade' agreements like the Trans Pacific Partnership are constantly…Promises be damned: TPP 'benefits' are strictly for the corporations
Feb 4, 2016, 9:12 am By The EcologistBoosters of 'free trade' agreements - like the Trans Pacific Partnership that's being signed today -…Never mind today's signing charade: TPP is heading for the rocks
Feb 4, 2016, 7:36 am By The EcologistTrade ministers will sign the Trans Pacific Partnership 'free trade' deal today, writes Sam…Monsanto’s Glyphosate now most heavily used weed-killer in history.
Feb 3, 2016, 2:32 pm By The EcologistA new paper warns that nearly 75% of all Glyphosate ever sprayed on crops has been used in the last…Glyphosate 'the most heavily used weedkiller in history'
Feb 3, 2016, 2:32 pm By The EcologistThe global use of glyphosate has rocketed over the last decade thanks to the introduction of…
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