How Open Source Seed Producers Are Changing Global Food Production
"Around the world, plant breeders are resisting what they see as corporate control of the food supply by making seeds available for other breeders to use."
Source: Ensia, 12/14/2016
Biodiversity
Things related to the web of life; ecology; wildlife; endangered species
Creating a Learning Community Through Community Journalism
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Newly Leaked: CRS Explainers To Help Environmental Journalists
The Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy publishes leaked copies of Congressional Research Service research papers. Here are a few recent ones of use to environmental journalists.
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"Dredging of Miami Port Badly Damaged Coral Reef, Study Finds"
"The large-scale dredging of Miami’s port to accommodate the newest generation of freighters, an undertaking that prompted a long-running battle with environmentalists, caused widespread damage to a portion of the area’s fragile and already distressed coral reef, according to a new report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration."
Source: NY Times, 05/02/2016
"Future Arctic: Field Notes from a World on the Edge"
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"A Predator Fish In California Has Lost Its White House Support"
"A still-controversial 1992 law intended to boost California’s striped-bass population can be scaled back, the Obama administration now believes."
Source: McClatchy, 04/21/2016
Scientist Says USDA Used Press Office To Silence Him
Scientist Jonathan Lundgren (left), who has been researching the effects of neonicotinoid pesticides on Monarch butterflies, filed a whistleblower complaint and lost. And, Lundgren claimed his supervisors at the USDA's Agricultural Research Service told him not to talk to news media and punished him when he did.
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