Goldminers Overrun Amazon Indigenous Lands as COVID-19 Surges
Jenny Gonzales – Miners are emboldened by the inflammatory anti-indigenous and anti-environmental rhetoric of the Jair Bolsonaro administration.
Jenny Gonzales – Miners are emboldened by the inflammatory anti-indigenous and anti-environmental rhetoric of the Jair Bolsonaro administration.
Vic Bishop – Impactful initiatives like these are helping to reverse systemic racism while moving the world toward a hemp future.
Andrea Germanos – The evidence is clear: pesticide use is wiping out insect populations and ecosystems around the world, and threatening food production.
Morgan Erickson-Davis – Researchers are also worried about how the COVID-19 crisis could affect forests in 2020.
Anthony McLennan – 3.8 million hectares of tropical primary forest was lost in 2019 – the equivalent of a football pitch every six seconds.
Phillip Schneider – This Moroccan ‘hemp house’ shows the world that environmentally sustainable construction is possible.
Steven Maxwell – As the world continues to reel from the economic impact of widespread lockdown, people are trying to understand what a “new normal” economy will look like.
Vic Bishop – “We can feed the world ourselves, and yet we’re destroying our harvests!”
Shanna Hanbury – Huge swaths of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest are drier than usual after a rainy season well below historical levels.
Jordan Davidson – The documents also show Monsanto’s efforts to stymie tests from third-party labs to make sure there was no data that concerned regulators.
Jonathon Miller Weisberger – To understand Cacao, we must understand where she comes from – a place closest to the sun, where day and night are equal in length all year long.
Jordan Davidson – A new investigation revealed that Monsanto funneled money to academic studies warning of catastrophic consequences if glyphosate was banned in the UK.
Mandy Froelich – The team recalled that the Amazon rainforest was recently crippled by a wildfire that engulfed 906,000 hectares, or 2.2 million acres, of the forest.
John Vibes – Missouri peach farmer Bill Bader was awarded $265 million in a lawsuit against Monsanto, the controversial biochemical company that is now owned by Bayer.
Dr. Mecola – In reality, GM crops have turned glyphosate into one of the most widely and recklessly used herbicides in history and monoculture has led to a loss of biodiversity.
Robert T. Walker – Brazil’s divisive President Jair Bolsonaro has taken another step in his bold plans to develop the Amazon rainforest.
Phillip Schneider – There’s no reason to believe that the situation won’t end up exactly like it did with GM food.
Jordan Davidson – Poor people in developing countries are far more likely to suffer from exposure to pesticides, according to new data.
John Vibes – Experts are finding that there are more efficient and sustainable ways to organize our cities, but there aren’t many real-life examples of these ideas in action.
Eduardo Franco Berton – Spread too thin and threatened with violence, park authorities say they’re powerless to stop the onslaught.