The maize, known as MON863, has been engineered by the American biotech company, Monsanto, to resist the corn rootworm insect by producing a toxin in the plant. According to the environmental organisation Friends of the Earth Europe, food safety studies of the GM maize on rats showed significantly different levels of white blood cells, kidney [...]
"On arctic drilling and global warming, they are the worst of the worst," said Athan Manuel of U.S. PIRG, an environmental group that has teamed up with the Sierra Club, Greenpeace, MoveOn.org and others to mount the protest campaign. Last week the groups held press conferences in 50 U.S. cities to announce a global boycott [...]
The leading lights of the so-called "solar nanotechnology" revolution are companies like Nanosys and Nanosolar, both of Palo Alto, California, and Konarka of Lowell, Massachusetts. Engineers at these companies have created prototypes of thin rolls of highly efficient light-collecting plastics for spreading across rooftops or embedding in building materials in order to power heating, cooling [...]
"We believe these are realistic and achievable and good goals," said Kerry Morash, chair of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. "We certainly have the science that backs up the suggestions that have been put forward." Mercury generated from electric power plants is a known toxin that can cause organ damage and compromise [...]
Any deal at the Group of Eight (G8) summit in Scotland is unlikely to satisfy environmentalists who want all countries to sign up to binding targets on the carbon emissions that scientists say are causing the world to heat up. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has put the issues of climate change and African [...]
GLENEAGLES, Scotland – The Group of Eight powers meeting in Scotland reached agreement on Thursday on the need for urgent action to combat global warming, but set no measurable targets, Germany’s top negotiator said. A draft with Thursday’s date seen by Reuters contained an acknowledgment that human activity was a significant contributor to global warming, [...]
And the world today is changed, but while we achieved the goal of stopping nuclear weapons testing, we are all still living under the threat of nuclear weapons. The urgent task for us now is to abolish them. We’ve set up a website commemorating the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior and recalling her mission to [...]
Nevertheless, by the middle of this century, the U.S. economy will slip into second place if China’s burgeoning growth continues. And even before China takes the lead economically, it will replace the U.S. as the world’s leading producer of carbon dioxide gas, the primary cause of global climate change. With more than a billion Chinese [...]
Credits should be allocated to all forestry planting, not just to "permanent forest sinks". "That way there will be a massive amount of planting… "By 2012 we would probably be back in credit again at no cost to the government." Tree plantings, which had plummeted to nearly zero, would return to 1990 levels of more [...]
The European Commission has also launched a school competition meant for 6 to 16 year-old children. On the last day of Green Week 2005, Friday June 3, European Commissioner for the Environment Stavros Dimas and high-level politicians will face questions from a panel of children debating short and long term solutions to climate change.
