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Getting real: what would serious climate action look like?

From Scientists for Global Responsibility Prof Kevin Anderson, Manchester University, summarises the action necessary if governments and societies were really…

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Saving Ireland’s ‘coral reef’

A major project is underway to preserve and renew boglands in Ireland. This article from the Irish Times is very…

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The GMO lobby is misleading UK Parliamentarians on gene editing

From GMWatch. Richard Kuper has extracted for Red-Green Labour the main points of this highly detailed article, the full text…

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Food corporations paid shareholders $53.5bn while millions went hungry

From Open Democracy OPINION: Without food sovereignty, private businesses will continue profiteering at the expense of the plane Davi Martins…

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Endangered foods: why our diet is narrower than ever

A worrying article from The Guardian… Endangered foods: why our diet is narrower than ever – and the UK urgently…

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Be warned: the next deadly pandemic is not inevitable, but all the elements are in place

From George Monbiot, writing in the Guardian. Bird flu is a mass killer, and mink farms are perfect for infection…

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Britain uses Brexit freedoms to continue use of bee-killing neonicotinoids

From the Guardian Environmentalists say the use of the toxic pesticide is extremely harmful to bees and other insects, at…

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Genetic Technology Bill – What Just Happened?

Via Beyond G-M Genetic Technology Bill – What Just Happened? The government’s Genetic Technology Bill went through its Report…

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8 billion people – the defining issue of the 21st century

In this article from his Ecosocialist Discussion website, Alan Thornett tackles the controversial question of population and argues that the…

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‘How are we going to live?’ Families dispossessed of their land to make way for Total’s Congo offsetting project

From Unearthed Pulchérie Amboula’s life has revolved around the land she farms on the Batéké plateaux, a vast, undulating savannah…