Pollution, Ecocide & Toxins

GM corn presidential decree comes despite intense pressure from industry, U.S. authorities.

Company’s own records revealed damning truth of glyphosate-based herbicides’ link to cancer, says investigative journalist Carey Gillam

A new report shows that a surprisingly small number of big companies and banks are behind the manufacturing and financing of much of the world’s single-use plastic.

On Friday, California's State Water Resources Control Board announced it was cutting historical water rights.

Sunscreen has changed the lives of beach bums everywhere, allowing them to laze longer in the sun without their skin baking into a ruddy crisp. And it’s most likely made them safer, protecting them from the ultraviolet radiation that causes nearly nine-tenths of cases of skin cancer.

Photo by Josue Navarro GUATEMALA - On September 4th, after ten days of widespread street protests against the biotech giant Monsanto’s expansion into Guatemalan

The so-called Monsanto Protection Act signed into law earlier this year caused such an outrage that people around the world are planning to protest the biotech company later this month. Now a United States senator is expected to try and repeal that law.

"Rats fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto's genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller Roundup suffered tumours and multiple organ damage, according to a French study published on Wednesday. Although the lead researcher's past record as a critic of the industry may make other experts wary of drawing hasty conclusions, the finding will stoke controversy about the safety of GM crops. In an unusual move, the research group did not allow reporters to seek outside comment on their paper before its publication in the peer-reviewed journal Food and Chemical Toxicology and presentation at a news conference in London...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur break it down on The Young Turks.

Dr.Vandana Shiva named by Forbes as one of the 7 most-influential women in the world. The article called Dr.Shiva a "leading thinker of our time," and argues that women must be front and center in order to solve the issue of food security -- "breaking the silence, speaking truth to power, exposing atrocities and reminding us that women's rights are inherently connected to the future of our world."

Scientist, feminist, ecologist and author, Vandana Shiva, presenting the keynote address at the 2009 Organicology Conference in Portland, Oregon

For the first time in history, activists have cleaned up some of the trash from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch—and they will quickly collect much more.

On October 16, 2016 (World Food Day), Monsanto will stand trial for "crimes against nature and humanity," in The Hague, Netherlands.

A groundbreaking peer-reviewed study published today in the journal Environmental Research found that switching to an organic diet significantly reduced

The province's COVID-related suspension of environmental rules is undercutting protection against oil and gas and mining projects, including in overwhelmed First Nations communities

“At this point I will give the benefit of the doubt to the government… but we will be watching very closely,” said Ontario NDP environment critic Ian Arthur.