Friday, November 27, 2015

Outsmarting Nature?

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Many of the world's largest agro-industrial corporations are pushing forward the poorly-defined idea of "Climate-Smart Agriculture"(CSA) to re-market industrial agriculture as 'climate-ready'. This report uncovers how some advocates of CSA are embracing the extreme genetic engineering tools of synthetic biology ("Syn Bio") to develop a set of false solutions to the climate crisis. More here.

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Species’ ingenious survival strategies no match for human destruction, red list reveals

The Guardian Newly endangered animals include desert frogs and snails in extreme ocean depths, both threatened by mining Damian Carrington ...