Tag: Biodiversity
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Victory: EU Votes to Ban Bee-Killing Pesticides
BEYOND PESTICIDES — A landmark decision by the European Commission yesterday, means that bee-killing, neonicotinoid pesticides will experience a continent-wide ban in Europe …
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Corporations Win, Farmers Lose in GE Seed Deals
PESTICIDE ACTION NETWORK — So just what can farmers expect out of all these cross-licensing deals? Stacks upon stacks of traits that they haven’t asked for. More licensing fees. Skyrocketing seed prices. These and other disastrous consequence for farmers have been …
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You Are a Guinea Pig in the Greatest Uncontrolled Experiment Ever Launched
TOMDISPATCH — A hidden epidemic is poisoning America. The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water we drink, in the walls of our homes and the furniture within them. We can’t escape it in our …
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National Parks in Peril from Fracking
NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — As the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) updates rules for oil and gas drilling on federal land …
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Greenpeace Activists Board Ship in Protest of Australia’s Coal Export Boom
GREENPEACE—At sunrise, the six activists left the Rainbow Warrior on inflatable boats and drew up alongside the MV Meister, a ship carrying thermal coal …