Climate change could cause ‘zombie weeds’
Grist - 6/14/2012. By Rachel Cernansky – Climate change may be wreaking havoc on ecosystems and food supplies around the world, but there are also some things it’s really great for – like weeds. |
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Film shows harm caused by chemicals
Portland Press Herald - 6/14/2012. Letter to the Editor by Sophie Yang – Fifty years have now passed since the first publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring," a monumental work of environmental social critique that provided overwhelming evidence of the harmful effects of chemicals and pesticides on the environment, animals and humans. Although Carson's work contributed to the successful banning of the pesticide DDT in the U.S. in 1972, today's planet is still riddled with toxic chemicals in the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. |
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Farmland Trust lets family farm remain intact
Kennebec Journal - 6/13/2012. By Mechele Cooper – Belgrade: Roger and Dawn Bickford had always hoped that their 120-acre farm, which had been with the family for more than a century, would remain intact. It remained a dairy farm until 1989, when the primary crops became hay and vegetables. Now, with the help of Maine Farmland Trust, the Bickfords' two sons, Dwayne and Wayne Bickford, have been able to ensure the property will remain intact and forever farmland. |
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Syngenta charged for covering up livestock deaths from GM corn
Institute for Science in Society - 6/13/2012. Biotech giant Syngenta has been criminally charged with denying knowledge that its genetically modified (GM) Bt corn kills livestock during a civil court case that ended in 2007. The charges follow a long struggle for justice by a German farmer whose dairy cattle suffered mysterious illnesses and deaths after eating Bt 176. |
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