Tag: Genetic Engineering - Page 4
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Bush Admin Officials Advised Retaliation Against Europe For Rejecting GM Crops: Wikileaks
More from Wikileaks of interest to the environmentally-minded, shedding light on the mindset of the Bush administration on the European Union's actions on genetically modified crops: US Ambassador to
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GM Cotton Fails - Insect Pests Thriving on Indian Plants When They Should Be Dead
An article in the latest issue of the journal Current Science raises serious questions about the long-term viability of genetically-modified Bt cotton to actually do what it's intended to do, increase pest resistance.
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Papal Science Advisors Say World's Poor Need GM Crops & Scientists Have Moral Duty to Develop Them
The Vatican's science advisors have come out in support of genetically modified crops, saying that they scientists have both the right and moral duty to produce them to help the world's poor, New Scientist reports.
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If Genetically Modified Trees Could Help Stop Climate Change Would You Support Them?
Some new research in Bioscience outlines different ways in which genetically modifying trees and plants to help them increase their carbon sequestration potential to fight climate change--we're talking billions of
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While Bill Gates Wants Africa to Embrace Industrial GM Food, Italy Fines Franken-Maize Growing Farmer
Interesting GM food media intersection in the past two days: Reuters reports that an Italian court has fined a farmer for illegally growing GM maize, cultivation of which is banned in Italy; meanwhile, in The Guardian
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Genetically Modified Crops Banned Around the World (Slideshow)
While some farmers (and governments) support the use of genetically modified crops for their higher yield quantities and pest and weed resistance, others point out that the long-term effects of these gene adjustments just
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Genetically Modified Crops Banned Around the World
Farmers all over the world are throwing down political and environmental battle lines over the cultivation of genetically modified (GMO) crops. On the pro side, supporters claim that changes to the genetic structure of a plant can help it resist weed ki
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Genetically Modified Rape Taking Over North Dakota
Back when the bright yellow flowers were still known as Rape or Oilseed rape, Brassica napus produced a bitter oil, unsuitable for human consumption and used mainly to lubricate machines. Canadian researchers bred an edible
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Saving the Earth by Shrinking Humans
If you have run out of controversial topics for dinner conversation, or websites to stumble upon, here's one for you. The Incredible Shrinking Man project researches and reviews the "implications of genetically
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Genetically-Modified Salmon May Be Declared "Safe" for Human Consumption in US
This proposed commercial genetic trick - inserting the genes of a "pout fish" (as pictured)
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Can Audubon's "Frozen Zoo" Save Endangered Species?
With the recent declaration of the rusty grebe extinction, due to a non-native carnivorous snakehead murrel being introduced to its habitat, Lake Alaotra in Madagascar, as
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Scientists Creating 'Extremophile' Super Bug to Make Fuel
What's more extreme than an extremophile? How about a new and improved version of the bug, a bacteria that thrives
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Ask Pablo: Am I An Eco-Hypocrite For Using Roundup To Control Weeds?
My answer might surprise you, but the most commonly used herbicidal spray, Glyphosate (commonly known as Roundup), may
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Super Weeds, Bees, and Diabetes: 7 Food Safety Predictions
Happy as a pigweed in GMOs. Appropriately named superweed takes over a soybean field. Photo by Pawpaw67 via Flickr The Organic Center, a research institute focused on the science of organic food and farming, recently revealed concerns for the state of
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Genetically Motified Means Higher Yield? Not For This Soya
Easier growing and a higher yield are just two of the purported benefits of genetically modified crops, but a Greenpeace
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Is Genetically Engineering Animals To Not Feel Pain Really the Solution to Factory Farming?
Last week the New York Times ran an op-ed piece by PhD-to-be philosopher-neuroscientist-psychologist Adam Shriver, from Washington University in St Louis, that really cuts to the heart of one of the deepest issues in the green
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Scientists Unlock One Mystery of Photosynthesis
It is one of the mysteries that makes life on earth possible: plants can grab energy out of sunlight and convert it into chemical energy. This energy works its way up the food chain. Without it, we could
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India Suspends First GM Food Crop Introduction - Environment Minister Wants More Tests
Genetically-modified cotton has been grown in India since 2002, but until today it appeared that the nation's first GM food crop would be introduced in 2010. BBC News and other outlets are reporting that the start of GM
