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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
Beemageddon? As hysteria over honey bees recedes, anti-neonic narrative refocuses on wild bees
It was a crisis that never was. It's now clear that the honey bee crisis never was—the pollinator is doing ...
GM moths could offer non-toxic pest control option for vegetables
A genetically modified moth could help curb a major pest of vegetable crops around the world, research suggests. The diamondback ...
Audio: Why Bill Nye changed his mind on GMOs
Guest host Bill Nye says he’s changed his mind about GMOs. Find out why when he and co-host Chuck Nice ...
Linking LGBT couples with donors and surrogates
Today, there are no shortage of options when it comes to starting a family without traditional conception. But that doesn’t ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
Sensationalist news on bees, neonicotinoids, ‘junk science’ leads to bad policy
Next to Congress, the least-trusted institutions in the United States include newspapers, television and Internet news, according to Gallup. But ...
Why are bees hurting? A lineup of suspects
In my last piece I made the case that the rumors of honeybee extinction have been greatly exaggerated, but honeybees ...
Why the bee crisis isn’t as bad as you think (but still matters)
There’s a note of evangelical glee in some of the predictions of bee extinction. Vanishing bees are a sign of the end ...
GMO ‘Right to Know’ movement takes food off of plates of hungry in Africa, Asia
Unsubstantiated fears about the safety of GM crops in developed countries with an over-abundance of food has spread anti-biotech sentiment ...
National Academy forum challenges anti-GMO claim that DNA in food ‘invades’ bloodstream
Can science self-correct to protect against sloppy or politicized research? Scientist Mary Mangan discusses the controversy over a study that ...
Organic pesticides substituted for ‘dangerous’ neonicotinoids found far more toxic to bees
There are two toxic pesticides, Rotenone in Europe and Azadirachtin in the US and Europe, that need to be banned ...
Should we phase out bee-killing pesticides in our food system?
We love our bees. They make honey and pollinate our flowers and crops. But bees are dying at an alarming ...
Is altruism just selfishness in disguise?
Evolution proceeds by the differential reproduction of genes, so the challenge is to explain the persistence of a trait that, ...
Ontario to phase out neonics use to improve bee health
Ontario is moving to take the sting out of pesticides that are killing bees. On July 1, the province will ...
Bee breeders select genetic qualities that help colonies stave off varroa mites
The plight of the threatened honeybee was made a national priority last month when President Obama announced the first National ...
The sustainability case for “industrial agriculture”
Attacks on GMOs is often a proxy for criticisms of globalization, corporate agriculture, synthetic chemicals. But these debates often lose ...
Making case for organics: Costs more but ‘you should buy it anyway’ because of fewer chemicals
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Loud voices dismiss organic ...
The Case for GMOs and Sustainability
From conventional breeding to mutagenesis, none of our foods that we eat today is the product of Nature’s way. But ...
Florida newspaper encourages readers help monarch butterflies by planting milkweed
Once the spectacular black-and-orange monarch was one of the most prolific butterfly species in North America. Its range stretched from ...
Glyphosate’s environmental and health risks should be addressed by regulators
Monsanto's herbicide glyphosate -- trade name RoundUp -- which is used on most genetically engineered crops (also known as GMOs), ...
Pro-GMO marchers shocked at unfocused anger of March Against Monsanto protesters
The most striking and at times frightening aspect of the March Against Monsanto was the unfocused vitriol voiced by the ...
