Is feedlot beef better for the environment?
If everyone in the world went vegan, it would solve both the greenhouse gas and biodiversity problems almost overnight. Evidence shows that if people adopted entirely plant-based diets, the planet […]
Experts find climate-skeptic and anti-GMO studies are scientifically flawed
By Mark Lynas Although many papers have been published claiming that genetically engineered (GMO) foods are harmful and that humans aren’t changing the climate, not a single one of them […]
Now we have a moral duty to talk about climate change
(CNN)- This is what climate change looks like. Entire metropolitan areas — Houston in the United States and Mumbai in India — submerged in catastrophic floods. Record-breaking rainfall: Harvey’s 50-plus […]
Trump’s stupidity on climate change will galvanize environmentalists
Withdrawing from the Paris climate accord is about the only predictable — even rational — move that President Trump has made since taking office. Following embarrassing reversals on the Mexican wall, the […]
Shadows and mirrors: GMOs in China
Sometimes I hear scientists in the West — especially those who have had their lives made difficult by anti-GMO activists — say they wish things were as straightforward as they […]
Launching a global pro-science movement
The date April 22, 2017 may go down in history as a world first. Not only was it the first time that scientists took to the streets to march in […]
Tanzania is burning GM corn while people go hungry
Bad science costs lives It’s late afternoon in Makutupora and technicians wearing blue overalls pour sacks of maize onto a bonfire. They exchange a few wistful looks as the flames […]
Scientists to take to the streets in global march for truth
Scientists and science supporters will take to the streets in a global March for Science on 22 April . What began as a small Facebook group in the US capital, Washington DC […]
Trump’s climate policies put China in charge of our future
In a rational world, people would take climate change more and more seriously as real-world evidence for its damaging effects mount. The dying of the Great Barrier Reef; the crippling, ongoing drought in […]
Drought-tolerant maize shows promise in Tanzania
Tanzania’s first-ever genetically modified crop — a field trial of drought-tolerant maize intended to benefit small-scale farmers suffering the effects of climate change — is proceeding well and will be […]