Food Retailers Fail to Protect Bees From Toxic Pesticides
A new scorecard released Tuesday finds that 20 out of 25 top food retailers fail to protect bees and people from toxic pesticides. The report, Swarming the Aisles II, shows that while supermarkets...
View ArticleShell Faces Historic Legal Action in Netherlands for Failure to Act on...
Friends of the Earth Netherlands announced Wednesday that it will take Shell to court if it does not act on demands to stop its destruction of the climate."Shell is among the ten biggest climate...
View ArticleWhy Non-GMO Plant Based Proteins Are One Solution to Factory Farming
By Lisa ArcherFriends of the Earth recently released a brief that raised important questions about laboratory-created animal replacement products (in vitro meat and genetically engineered proteins)...
View ArticleChanging the Main Course of Climate Change
By Chloƫ Waterman As the Trump administration's dangerous deregulatory agenda leads us closer to climate catastrophe, cities, counties and businesses are stepping up to address the crisis. Last month,...
View ArticleThe City of Angels Funds Some Hellish Fossil Fuel Projects
By Doug NorlenThis month the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a startling report, which finds that severe impacts of climate change are happening much sooner than...
View ArticleIt's Time to Stop Paying for Pesticides With Our Health: Organic for All Must...
By Kendra KleinA groundbreaking new study in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that you can cut your cancer risk by eating an organic diet. The findings are dramatic....
View ArticleArctic Indigenous Voices Making a Difference on Polar Shipping
By Verner Wilson II2018 was a breakthrough year for Arctic conservation work at the International Maritime Organization (IMO). I wrote partly about it in my previous blog. Aside from obtaining...
View ArticleTrump Admin Maps the Ocean for Industry Exploitation
By Hallie TempletonAs part of its Blue Economy initiative, the Trump administration has developed a map to provide ocean industries information on areas ripe for oil rigs and floating factory farms....
View ArticleThree Ways to Support a Healthy Food System During the COVID-19 Pandemic
By Paolo MutiaAs the COVID-19 pandemic sweeps across the globe, it has exposed and exacerbated how the corporate, industrialized food system is harming people and our planet. Family farmers across the...
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