Topic: Biodiversity / Biodevastation

Don’t Eat the Yellow Rice: The Danger of Deploying Vitamin A Golden Rice

Jul 12, 2016

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rsburke

Ted Greiner shows why 107 nobel laureates are dead wrong.
Pro-GMO campaign exploits Nobel laureates to attack Greenpeace and fool the people

Jul 12, 2016

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rsburke

Despite the claims of it's advocates, Golden Rice is still far from being ready for the market, is completely untested, and unnecessary.
Did Exxon Lie About Global Warming?

Jul 10, 2016

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kimscipes

Examines how protest against Exxon's hiding its knowledge about global warming might have laid the groundwork for a massive law suit by investors about how Exxon's been lying about its economic value.
The Role of Climate Change in the Syria Crisis

Jun 11, 2016

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briant

Article reveals that Syrian civil society had its own response to the effects of the drought: to form strong cooperatives, which were actively suppressed by the Assad regime. Offers an important counterpoint to the crude Hobbesian/Malthusian scenarios painted in more mainstream accounts. Links to a full multimedia report at https://climatemigration.atavist.com/syria-and-climate-change (which is not readily…
Professor Who Bought Two Parcels At Oil & Gas Auction Removed

Jun 4, 2016

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squirrel

Terry Tempest Williams is leaving her University of Utah teaching post and walking away from the Environmental Humanities program she founded rather than agree to administrators’ demands she move her teaching from the state’s desert landscapes onto campus.
How Climate Change and Failed Agricultural Policies Have Contributed to Conflict in Syria

Jun 1, 2016

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henryr874

The government had been pursuing a policy of agricultural intensification and economic liberalisation based on the expansion of irrigated crops for export, such as wheat and cotton that were reliant on chemical fertilisers. The chemical inputs and monoculture cropping contributed to the degradation of Syria’s soils, while poor irrigation infrastructure led to salinisation, particularly in…
Organic Farmers Are Not Anti-Science, but Genetic Engineers Often Are

Jun 1, 2016

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rsburke

Does power determine knowledge? Proponents of GMOs like to wrap themselves in the mantle of 'science,' but are we really being shown the way that powerful economic interests determine what is science? Could it be that independent science challenging GMOs is actually more scientific than the establishment is willing to recognize? A thought-provoking article.
Nuclear Radiation, Kierkegaard, and the Philosophy of Denial

May 29, 2016

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fitzdon

It used to be, and indeed children are still taught in schools, that the advances that have been made in the last five hundred years (antibiotics, electricity, computers etc) resulted from the application of Science and its overthrow of dogmatic belief. All ideas are put to the question in the auto da fe of experiment:…
Canadian Capitalism and the Fort McMurray Wildfire

May 14, 2016

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henryr874

Millions of people across Canada and around the world have been moved by the images of destruction and harrowing tales of escape that have emerged from Fort McMurray, Alberta, over the past week. On short notice and with next to no forewarning, some 90,000 residents were evacuated May 3, as a huge wildfire began to…
Lakota Lead the Fight Against the Dakota Access Pipeline

May 10, 2016

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squirrel

The Bakken Oil Field in North Dakota has symbolically acted as a forward operating base for the latest industrial invasion of Indian Treaty Lands, bringing with it corruption, pollution and violence, not unlike the time when gold was discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota during the 1800s.