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A dark venture: Tales from Borneo, the global heart of palm oil
This past month, our China Sustainable Finance campaigner, Rey Edward, traveled to Borneo, Indonesia, to view first hand the environmental disaster caused by palm oil plantations. Edward interviewed…
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Friends of the Earth statement on US – Europe trade negotiations
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the first round of negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership concludes in Washington, D.C. The trade talks opened Monday, July 8, under a cloud res…
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Obama’s “grand” climate plan: reflections from a policy wonk
Today President Obama gave a much-anticipated climate change speech at Georgetown University. In true Obama fashion, the speech was pretty inspiring and sounded great; but dig a little deeper into the…
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Sinister partners: transatlantic trade agreement & toxic chemicals
Chemicals are the sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation in changing the very nature of the world–the very nature of life. – Rachel Carson. On July 8, in Washington, D.C., trade ne…
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First-of-its-kind testing shows weed-killer found in people across Europe
Monsanto’s Roundup chemical linked to breast cancer cell growth WASHINGTON, D.C. – Test results released last week reveal that people across Europe are contaminated with world’s best se…
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Another whale likely killed by a ship strike
On Thursday morning, a 68-foot long fin whale was found dead in the sand at a beach located in Ocean Shores, Washington on the outer coast near Grays Harbor. Biologists from Cascadia Research and the…
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Mozambique-EU forest carbon deal is fraught with problems, new report reveals
In Sofala province, Mozambique, a group of initiatives collectively known as the N’hambita Pilot Project have been promoted as a flagship program for the protection of forests and the reduction…
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A Bad Week for Big Biotech: Supreme Court decision invalidating gene patents one of many recent major setbacks to the biotechnology industrys control over life
Today many women’s rights groups, cancer patients, scientists, and concerned citizens celebrated an enormous victory in the Supreme Court: human genes can no longer be patented by big business! As o…
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Supreme Court invalidates gene patents
Decision is landmark victory for patients, researchers, public WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a unanimous landmark decision today, the Supreme Court ruled that naturally occurring genes and DNA sequences…
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Protect forests, reject landgrabs: Tell investors to stop bankrolling big palm oil
Industrial agriculture has long been a major cause of forest destruction, but the ceaseless expansion of palm oil plantations for food, fuel and cosmetics is wreaking havoc on an unprecedented scale…