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India’s Food Supply at Risk of GMO Contamination After Lifting 16-Year Corn Import Ban
Posted by EcoWatch: Lorraine Chow on February 18th, 2016
EcoWatch: India, which currently does not allow the growing of genetically modified (GMO) crops, is preparing to lift its import ban on corn for the first time in 16 years which could potentially open the doors to GMO contamination in its food supply.
India will receive 250,000 tonnes of non-GMO corn from South Korea`s Daewoo International via Ukraine, however as experts warned to Reuters, it is difficult to ensure that the supply is 100 percent non-GMO.
It only takes a few GMO seeds to mix with local...
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Seattle Sues Monsanto Over PCB Contamination, Becomes 6th City to Do So
Posted by EcoWatch: Lorraine Chow on January 27th, 2016
EcoWatch: Seattle joins the growing list of cities in the American West that has slapped Monsanto with a PCB lawsuit. PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, is a highly toxic chemical that the company manufactured decades ago.
The complaint, filed on Monday with the U.S. District Court in Seattle, alleges that Monsanto knew that the chemicals were polluting the environment and causing harm to people and wildlife, as Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes explained to The Seattle Times.
“When the profit motive...
California’s Largest Tribe Bans GMO Crops and Genetically-Engineered Salmon
Posted by EcoWatch: Lorraine Chow on December 26th, 2015
EcoWatch: The Yurok Tribe—California’s largest tribe with roughly 5,000 enrolled members—passed a historic ban on genetically modified (GMOs) crops and salmon. The Yurok Tribal Council unanimously voted on Dec. 10 to enact the Yurok Tribe Genetically Engineered Organism (GEO) Ordinance: The Tribal GEO Ordinance prohibits the propagation, raising, growing, spawning, incubating or releasing genetically engineered organisms (such as growing GMO crops or releasing genetically engineered salmon) within the Tribe’s...
Energy Companies Want Judge to Dismiss Historic Lawsuit Over Oklahoma Earthquakes
Posted by EcoWatch: Lorraine Chow on December 10th, 2015
EcoWatch: Energy companies are trying to legally distance themselves from the fracking-linked earthquakes currently rattling Oklahoma. According to a new report from the Associated Press, Lincoln County District Judge Cynthia Ferrell Ashwood is hearing two energy companies` motion to dismiss a major liability lawsuit.
The lawsuit in question was brought by Sandra Ladra, an Oklahoma woman who claims she was injured after a 5.6-magnitude quake--the largest ever recorded in the state--hit the city of Prague...
Food Advocacy Group to Sue FDA Controversial Approval of GMO Salmon
Posted by EcoWatch: Lorraine Chow on November 20th, 2015
EcoWatch: Opposition against the Food and Drug Administration`s (FDA) approval of the first genetically engineered food animal, AquaBounty’s GMO salmon, is fiercely mounting.
The Center for Food Safety, an nonprofit organization, announced plans to sue the federal agency. Grocery store chains around the country have also made commitments to not sell the controversial fish.
We are suing the FDA! HELP CFS FIGHT THE APPROVAL OF #GESALMON IN COURT! Help out here: https://t.co/nQFTUXGKhv pic.twitter.com/Fn9KeiIH60...
Monsanto Slammed With Yet Another PCB Contamination Lawsuit as Company Profits Slump
Posted by EcoWatch: Lorraine Chow on November 11th, 2015
EcoWatch: Embattled agritech giant Monsanto is facing fresh litigation over harm caused by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a highly toxic chemical that the company manufactured decades ago.
The city of Oakland, California filed a lawsuit that holds Monsanto accountable for allegedly contaminating of the city`s storm water as well as the San Francisco Bay with PCBs.
Before focusing its operations on agrotechnology and supplying the world with its genetically modified seeds, Monsanto was the primary...
14 Extreme Weather Events Linked to Climate Change
Posted by EcoWatch: Lorraine Chow on November 7th, 2015
EcoWatch: Even though skeptics would disagree, weather and climate are clearly two different things. We know that the greenhouse gases emitted by human activities such as burning fossil fuels and land use cause global temperatures to rise over long stretches of time, but what effect does that have on the weather today? Well, according to a new study, we can now pin at least 14 extreme weather events in 2014—including heatwaves, drought, wildfires and floods—on climate change. The report, Explaining Extreme...
Alarming Uptick of Earthquakes in Kansas Linked to Fracking With 52 in Just Last Two Weeks
Posted by EcoWatch: Lorraine Chow on October 28th, 2015
EcoWatch: Just like in Oklahoma, Kansas is seeing a shocking uptick in earthquakes connected to the underground disposal of wastewater from the hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, process.
The Washington Post reports that Kansas has recorded more earthquakes in the past two weeks alone than there have been in the years between 1990 and 2013. According to the Kansas Geological Survey, between Oct. 15-26, there were 52 quakes, most with a magnitude between 2.0 or 3.0. That`s a huge increase from the 19 earthquakes...
Bill Nye Depressed by Tar Sands’ ‘Extraordinary Exploitation’ of Environment
Posted by EcoWatch: Lorraine Chow on September 3rd, 2015
EcoWatch: Bill Nye recently took a trip north to the Alberta tar sands while filming his new science documentary and he did not mince words about the state of Canada`s crude oil reservoir.
Thank you @BillNye & National Geographic for coming to see the #tarsands & its impacts and talk about #climatechange pic.twitter.com/2jjuzabsAm
-- Melina LM (@Melina_MLM) September 2, 2015
“Producing all this oil that’s producing all this carbon dioxide, that’s not good from a global stand point,” the children`s...
One of World’s Fastest Melting Glaciers May Have Lost Largest Chunk of Ice Recorded History
Posted by EcoWatch: Lorraine Chow on August 20th, 2015
EcoWatch: With the world`s glaciers melting at record rates, the Jakobshavn--Greenland's fastest-moving glacier and one of the fastest melting in the world--may have lost its largest chunk of ice in recorded history.
Massive calving event on Greenland`s fastest melting #glacier http://t.co/aRvxQcDOvf Images: http://t.co/fmoHfapp4o pic.twitter.com/VC4arPdVw0
-- The Ice Age (@Jamie_Woodward_) August 20, 2015
The Washington Post reported that members of the Arctic Sea Ice Forum examined satellite images...