US Diplomats’ Campaign GM Foods

Review of Wikileaks cables reveals effort to break down other nations' resistance to GMOs

by Suzanne Goldenberg American diplomats lobbied aggressively overseas to promote genetically modified (GM) food crops such as soy beans, an analysis of official cable traffic revealed on Tuesday. The review of more than 900 diplomatic cables by the campaign group Food and…
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by: The Guardian UK – May 20, 2013

Climate Milestone is a Moment of Symbolic Significance on Road of Idiocy

The only way forward is back: to retrace our steps and seek to return atmospheric concentrations to around 350ppm

The data go back 800,000 years: that's the age of the oldest fossil air bubbles extracted from Dome C, an ice-bound summit in the high Antarctic. And throughout that time there has been nothing like this. At no point in the preindustrial record…
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by: The Guardian UK – May 10, 2013

US Rejects EU Claim of Insecticide as Prime Reason for Bee Colony Collapse

EPA study points to a combination of factors for decline in population, breaking away from singling out pesticides

A government report blamed a combination of factors for the disappearance of America's honeybees on Thursday and did not join Europe in singling out pesticides as a prime suspect. Photo by Dennis GoedegebuureEnvironmentalists say the report missed an opportunity to build a…
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by: The Guardian UK – May 3, 2013

GM Salmon Being Raised in a Secretive Location in the Panamanian Rainforest

Supersized genetically modified fish are ready for market – but is the market ready for them? And why is the firm hidden away in Panama?

It is hard to think of a more unlikely setting for genetic experimentation or for raising salmon: a rundown shed at a secretive location in the Panamanian rainforest miles inland and 1,500m above sea level. Photo courtesy AquaBounty AquaBounty's GM Salmon. The…
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by: The Guardian UK – April 24, 2013

Texas Fertilizer Plant Blast Devastates Tight-Knit Town

Up to 15 feared dead. Rescue efforts continue amid fears that toll could rise

Rescue workers were fighting through the devastation caused by an explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant that destroyed scores of homes and killed up to 15 people. Barklee Sanders/YouTube The blast wrecked a large section of West, a small town around 20…
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by: The Guardian UK – April 18, 2013

Major US Supermarkets to Boycott GM Salmon

Aldi and Whole Foods among retailers refusing to sell product. FDA decision due on whether GM salmon allowed onto market

A number of US supermarket chains pledged on Wednesday not to sell genetically modified salmon, in a sign of growing public concern about engineered foods on the dinner table. Photo by John BostockAnti-GM campaigners say the outlets represent a growing segment of…
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by: The Guardian UK – March 20, 2013

Japan’s ‘Frozen Gas’ is Worthless if We Take Climate Change Seriously

Like all nations extending the fossil fuel frontier, Japan is adding to the mountain of fossil fuels we cannot responsibly burn

There's only one way of knowing whether or not governments are serious about climate change: Have they decided to leave most of their fossil fuel reserves in the ground? We have already discovered far more carbon than we can afford to burn, if…
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by: The Guardian UK – March 14, 2013

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