Sustainability & Climate Change
Food production needs are expected to roughly double over the next 35 years as the world population grows and people in under developed countries become more affluent and demand more calories. Healthy ecosystems are vital to the survival of all organisms. How can we grow crops without harming the environment? How can we balance technology and global food security? What is the right balance of organic and conventional farming? What role can genetics and biotechnology play without compromising the needs of tomorrow?
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Oregon considers new restrictions, labels for neonicotinoid insecticides over bee health concerns
Neonicotinoid pesticides, which critics blame for death and illness among pollinators, would be subject to new restrictions and labeling rules ...
How we can preserve biodiversity while maintaining agricultural yields, meet nutritional demands
[Editor's note: Claire Kremen is a professor of conservation biology at University of California, Berkeley, where she also co-directs the Center for Diversified ...
Talking Biotech: What environmental hazards remain from accidental release of GMO grass seeds?
Oregon State's Carol Mallory-Smith says transgene flow from Roundup Ready bentgrass to non-GMO grass species offers lessons for regulators ...
Farmer’s view: Celebrities embrace organic cotton over GMOs, but is it more sustainable?
Emma Watson wants people to buy the latest fashions made with organic cotton. Would that be more sustainable than clothes ...
Non-GMO movement plagued by ‘rampant sexism’, critic says
It’s no secret that [moms are] among the most coveted demographics of the non-GMO marketing machine. Jeffrey Smith, one of ...
Australian commission calls for state governments to lift GM crop bans
The Productivity Commission has released a range of sweeping recommendations to cut the costs of regulation in agriculture. ... It ...
Potato pest developing resistance to neonicotinoid insecticides
The potato industry may be losing a mainstay in the battle against [the plant-feeding insect] psyllids, according to a recent ...
Plant probiotics: Genetic switch in plants could trigger soil bacteria to increase crop yields
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have pinpointed a key genetic switch that helps soil bacteria ...
Extreme Green hypocrisy? Center for Biological Diversity, other anti-GMO groups partner on March for Science
[Editor's note: The following is an open letter to the Center for Biological Diversity regarding their participation in the "March ...
Worst 10 list: Advocacy groups that put ideology ahead of science on food and farming issues
Which organizations promote ideology over science in the debate over crop biotechnology? The list includes some of the most well-known ...
ChemChina’s proposed takeover of Syngenta fuels GMO fears among some in China
The opposition to genetically altered food and grains in China has been brought to the forefront by China National Chemical’s ...
Ripen on demand? New generation of GMO crops could dramatically increase yield
Farmers could one day control when their crops ripen after the development of modified rice that flowers on demand. Despite ...
CRISPR gene editing could speed up photosynthesis and boost crop yields—But it will take time
Unlike previous approaches to GM crops that introduce foreign DNA into an organism, genome editing achieves much the same outcome ...
Monsanto, corporations accused of ‘buying scientists’ to place fake news in academic journals
[Editor's note: Paul Thacker is a consultant to nonprofits critical of GM technology. He is well known for his personal attacks on ...
To expedite development of climate-resistant crops, Australia may have to relax gene-editing rules
Australia's classification of genetic modification is inhibiting the country's potential for future crop growth, according to a University of Western ...
Is post-Brexit Britain poised to embrace less political, more science-based approach to regulating pesticides?
[Editor's note: The following is a briefing paper on bees and neonicotinoids by the House of Commons Library, a library ...
UK farmer: Here’s how the herbicide glyphosate helps me farm sustainably
[Editor's note: Ian Pigott is a farmer in Harpenden, UK. Located just 20 miles from the center of London, he grows ...
7 strategies to better communicate the scientific consensus on GMO safety to skeptical millennials
The ... genetically engineered crops study by the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) is a true consensus on GMOs. ... How ...
5 technologies that will change agriculture for the better in 2017
Yet another transformation in agriculture may be needed to stave off a potential food crisis. The good news is that ...
‘Veggie burger that bleeds’ created with GM yeast to hit stores soon
The Impossible Burger, also known as the “veggie burger that bleeds,” has drawn crowds of curious eaters and inspired dozens ...
EU leaning toward permanent ban of neonicotinoid insecticides, citing ‘acute risk to bees’
The world’s most widely used insecticides would be banned from all fields across Europe under draft regulations from the European ...
GE canola with high levels of omega-3 fatty acids could be commercialized in Australia, US, Canada in 2018
A strain of canola which contains long-chain omega-3s has now been submitted for regulatory approval in Australia, with submissions in ...
EPA deserves some respect: Environmental regulations should be refined, not dismantled
Primarily in Europe, but increasingly in the US, junk science and activist manipulation diminish the scientific integrity of the regulatory ...
Field trial shows insect-resistant GMO corn could help African countries fend off armyworm outbreak
Scientists have warned that the armyworm currently ravaging parts of Uganda could enter Kenya anytime, spelling doom for its stressed ...
Talking Biotech: Should consumers fear use of hormones, antibiotics, trace chemicals and GMOs in our food?
From marketers to activists, there is an effort to shame consumers over the use of modern technologies, such as genetic ...
Prepping crops for climate change: Genetics of bloom time may be key
Plants possess molecular mechanisms that prevent them from blooming in winter. Once the cold of winter has passed, they are ...
Did Cargill ruin its reputation with scientists, farmers with one #NonGMO tweet?
[Read the GLP profile of the Non-GMO project here.] Reputations are a funny thing. It takes years to build them ...
