Biodiversity

A useful explainer from the Guardian. Once-in-a-decade plans to protect the natural world and halt its destruction will be decided…

Via the Daily Maverick. An aerial view of firemen fighting a forest fire in Saint Magne, in the Gironde region…

From The Nation. There was nothing inevitable about the Lyme epidemic. Then humans disrupted the environment and fueled an era…

From GMWatch. A new booklet by Claire Robinson of GMWatch available to download here: GMO Myths and Facts: What they…

Tom Stevenson writes on the global food crisis in the London Review of Books. Egypt’s Ministry of Supply is headed…

Via Portside This study suggests that the alarming pace at which new or reemergent viruses have caused outbreaks in recent…

From Beyond Pesticides (Beyond Pesticides, April 13, 2022) The combined effects of insect pollination and natural pest control provided by birds…

The corporates are arguing that new techniques of gene editing (CRISPR and others) are safe and therefore there should be…

An interesting and accessible case study from GM Watch Controversial GM crop gives only two-thirds of the average yield for…

From Systemic Alternatives By Pablo Solón [Español – Português] A little over two years have passed since my last visit to Chile. At…