Super-Toxic Cocktails
Concentrations of pesticides insufficient to cause harm individually become highly toxic in combinations that occur in our environment. Current testing regimes are failing to cope with such lethal cocktails
Prof. Peter Saunders 27th April 2009 |
GeoEngineering A Measure of Desperation
We have all the means to save the climate without risking the earth in unregulated geoengineering research
Prof. Peter Saunders & Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 4th February 2009 |
Saving the Climate Dangerously
Geoengineering experiments can lead to big disasters if things go wrong, which is why it must be strictly regulated.
The German Governments decision to proceed with its ocean fertilisation experiment violates the recommendations of the Convention on Biological Diversity, but there is no law against it.
Prof. Peter Saunders 2nd February 2009 |
Low Energy Nuclear Reactions for Green Energy
How weak interactions can provide sustainable nuclear energy and revolutionize the energy industry
Lewis Larsen 13th November 2008 |
Old Growth Forests Are Carbon Sinks and Must Be Protected
A forest levy and other financial mechanisms within the Kyoto Protocol are appropriate measures for protecting natural forests.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 20th October 2008 |
Why the Planet is Sick
A review of 'Sick Planet' by Stan Cox
Prof. Peter Saunders 13th August 2008 |
Saving the World with Biodynamic Farming
The importance of marginal farmers in India using an emergent agricultural knowledge system against the corporate takeover of farms.
Sam Burcher 16th January 2008 |
Beware the New "Doubly Green Revolution"
The fake moral crusade to feed the world with genetically modified crops promoted as the second “Doubly Green Revolution” is doing even more damage than the first. The bad genetics involved in has failed the test in science and in the real world.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 14th January 2008 |
Greening the Desert
How Farmers in Sahel Confound Scientists. Scientists are catching up with farmers on how local knowledge and cooperation can work miracles.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Lim Li Ching 2nd January 2008 |
Bt Crops Threaten Aquatic Ecosystems
Scientists find wastes from transgenic Bt corn impair growth of common aquatic insect and call on future risk assessment to include aquatic ecosystems previously overlooked.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 30th October 2007 |
Parasitic Fungi and Pesticides Act Synergistically to Kill Honeybees?
Prof. Joe Cummins presents evidence that parasitic fungi can kill insects when low, otherwise non-lethal concentrations of pesticides are present
Prof. Joe Cummins 7th June 2007 |
Mobile Phones & Vanishing Birds
Birds near mobile phone base stations do not breed well
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 29th May 2007 |
Cancer Risks from Microwaves Confirmed
Microwaves from wireless mobile phone transmitters may be more potent than lower frequency electromagnetic fields in promoting cancer
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 24th May 2007 |
Mystery of Disappearing Honeybees
For some time now, honeybees have been disappearing from farmers’ hives without a trace. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins on the trail of possible culprits …
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 26th April 2007 |
Mobile Phones and Vanishing Bees
Bees worldwide have been involved in a disappearing act called “colony collapse disorder” over the past two years, with little sign of the disease or infestations that have resulted in massive loss of colonies in the past. The bees simply leave the hives and fail to return. Beekeepers and scientists alike are stymied as to the cause of this strange phenomenon.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 25th April 2007 |
Requiem for the Honeybee
Neonicotinoid insecticides used both in sprays and seed dressing may be responsible for the collapse of honeybee colonies
Prof. Joe Cummins 24th April 2007 |
The Economics of Climate Change
The Stern Report commissioned by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown shows that doing nothing to mitigate climate change will cost us at least five times as much as if we start to act now, but will any government take heed?
Prof. Peter Saunders 16th January 2007 |
Beauty and the Beast – Flowers can Pollute
Launching the International Flower Campaign
Dr. Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher 30th August 2006 |
Shutting Down the Oceans Act III: Global Warming and Plankton; Snuffing Out the Green Fuse
The oceans' plankton is about to give us the final curtain call in the greatest tragedy the human species has ever enacted unless we make determined efforts to stop burning fossil fuels right now. Numerous options for sustainable and renewable energies exist (Which Energy?) that will save our oceans and our planet
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 23rd August 2006 |
Shutting Down the Oceans. Act I: Acid Oceans
Global warming and acidification are damaging the phytoplankton at the basis of the oceans’ enormous food web, putting the entire biosphere in jeopardy
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 26th July 2006 |
Oceans and Global Warming
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho explains how oceans determine climate and influence climate change. Urgent need to shift away from fossil fuels to renewable options
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 21st July 2006 |
Oceans in Distress
Pollution, destructive overfishing and increasing commercial exploitation are threatening the planet’s cradle of life, warns the UN.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 20th July 2006 |
Dream Farm 2nd Announcement
How to turn "wastes" into energy and resources for local self-sufficiency in a post-fossil fuel economy
ISIS 10th January 2006 |
Redemption from the Plastics Wasteland
Plastic wastes that litter cities, parks, beaches and countryside look depressingly the same everywhere on earth. They have come to symbolise the mass throwaway culture: cheap, trashy, transient yet stubbornly non-degradable and inassimilable
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 24th November 2005 |
Food Miles and Sustainability
What's behind the statistics and what should be done?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Rhea Gala 21st September 2005 |
Taking to the Wind
Peter Bunyard looks at the realities of wind power and answers its detractors
Peter Bunyard 12th July 2005 |
Sustainable World Launch Conferencen - FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT
A gathering of some of the world's top talents in science, politics and economics to focus on sustainable food systems, to provide food security for all and ameliorate the worst excesses of global warming
ISIS 4th July 2005 |
Sustainable World Global Initiative Update
World crops yields have been falling for three successive years as temperatures soar, and water and oil - on which industrial monoculture are heavily dependent - are both rapidly diminishing. The day of reckoning has come for the "environmental bubble economy" built on the unsustainable exploitation of our natural resources
Independent Science Panel 17th May 2005 |
Get Ready for Matrix
Electronic medical implants are at least 50 years old, but new devices are raising unforeseen ethical and social concerns. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho calls for thorough public debate and consultation before these devices are let loose on society
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 14th December 2004 |
Feeding the World under Climate Change
Industrial agriculture contributes enormously to global warming, it is increasingly unproductive and heavily dependent on oil that's fast running out. Nor can it feed us once climate change really gets going. A very different agriculture is needed.
Edward Goldsmith 6th October 2004 |
Low Lignin GM Trees and Forage Crops
Prof. Joe Cummins explains why genetically modifying trees and forage crops to reduce their lignin content could make them more susceptible to pests. Other issues related to the GM construct, such as genetic instability, the persistence of antibiotic resistance marker genes in the ecosystem and biosafety in general, have also not been sufficiently considered.
Prof. Joe Cummins 5th June 2004 |
Bio-remediation Without Caution
A bacterium living inside plants could be improved for cleaning up environmental pollutants without genetic modification. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reveal that this seemingly beneficial development is beset with danger, as the bacterium concerned is a known pathogen
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 25th May 2004 |
Methyl Bromide Ban
Prof. Peter Saunders gives timely warning for maintaining the ban on a powerful ozone depleter
Peter Saunders 21st January 2004 |
Mercury A Growing Scourge
Mercury pollution is a growing global menace. Prof. Joe Cummins calls for UN regulation
Prof. Joe Cummins 28th November 2003 |
Transgenic Trees Spread Mercury Poisoning
Is moving mercury from place to place really remediation?
Joe Cummins 18th September 2003 |
