RT | January 16, 2015 Monsanto has won final approval from the US for its new genetically-modified soybeans and cotton, designed to withstand a dominant biocide that fights weed resistance built up as a result of the company’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide already in use. The US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service […]
Press TV – January 13, 2015 Britain said on Tuesday that it had scrapped a deal worth $30.2 billion with an international consortium to clean up the Sellafield nuclear facility in Cumbria in the northwest of the country. The contractors of the project were Amec of Britain, Areva of France and URS, an American company. […]
By Lawrence Davidson | To the Point Analyses | December 28, 2014 Part I – Predictions I can make high-probability predictions for 2015 and the near-beyond without the benefit of a crystal ball, tarot cards or tea leaves. The only thing that I need is a list of items from the new 2015 federal budget. […]
Press TV – December 20, 2014 Ecuador has terminated its environmental cooperation with Germany after German legislators tried to visit an Amazon rainforest recently opened for oil exploitation, the country’s foreign minister says. “Ecuador unilaterally ends all cooperation with Germany on environmental issues,” Ricardo Patino said on Friday. In 2012, Germany and Ecuador inked a […]
Al-Akhbar | December 20, 2014 Israel was asked by the UN General Assembly on Friday to compensate Lebanon for $856.4 million in oil spill damages it caused during the July 2006 war. The non-binding vote, which passed 170-6 with three abstentions, asks Israel to offer “prompt and adequate compensation” to Lebanon and other countries affected […]
RT | December 9, 2014 The United States government recently argued in court filings that the state of Washington’s request of $18 billion over 14 years to address the nation’s most polluted nuclear weapons production site should be rejected based on expense. The US Department of Justice said in a court filing on Friday that […]
Mada Masr | October 8, 2014 A letter published in an international scientific journal about the ecological risks of expanding the Suez Canal has raised cries of conspiracy theories in local media. The letter to the editor was signed by 18 scientists from around the world, including lead author Bella Galil of Israel’s National Institute […]
RT | November 25, 2014 In an unprecedented move, French Polynesia, an overseas territory governed by France, is to ask Paris for nearly $1 billion in compensation for damage caused by nuclear weapons tests carried out by France in the South Pacific between 1966 and 1996. The Assembly of French Polynesia has prepared a demand […]
Part 3 Jim Steele’s Presentation to the Life Members of the International Electrical and Electronic Engineers. Jim is the author of “Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism”
By Karl Grossman | CounterPunch | November 18, 2014 The recent crash of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and explosion on launch three days earlier of an Antares rocket further underline the dangers of inserting nuclear material in the always perilous space flight equation—as the U.S. and Russia still plan. “SpaceShipTwo has experienced an in-flight anomaly,” Virgin […]
