Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel: Antioxidants

ScienceDaily (Oct. 30, 2009)

As the nation copes with a shortage of vaccines for H1N1 influenza, a team of Alabama researchers have raised hopes that they have found an Achilles' heel for all strains...

Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity: Suzuki

October 30, 2009 - the Green Pages
Wind turbines, southwest SK. l.p. photo

Ottawa - Canada can succeed economically while meeting targets to reduce global...

Canada Sets Aside its Boreal Forest as Giant Carbon Vault

Suzanne Goldenberg, guardian.co.uk, 29 Oc'09

By banning logging, mining and oil drilling in an area twice the size of California, Canada is ensuring its boreal forests continue to soak up carbon...

Artist: Mary Jane Eichler

Organic Farming Yields Tougher Crops

by Max Ajl - Solve Climate - Sep 22nd, 2009

The future is now. What used to be scientific predictions of climate change are now upon us. This makes a major switch to organics even more urgent...

Who’s Investigating the CAFO-Swine Flu Link?

Oc 29'09 - by Tom Philpott - Grist

6 months after the outbreak, is anyone?

Who Contaminated Canada's crops?

Martin Mittelstaedt, Globe and Mail-Wed. Oct. 28, 2009
Prairie whodunit has flax farmers baffled.

A prairie flax crop, itself contaminated with GM canola "weeds!"
What a tangled web have GMOs woven! l.p. photo

Climate Change Could Push up Insurance Premiums: Exec

Winnipeg Free Press - By: Andy Blatchford - 27/10/2009

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Harsh weather whipped up by climate change has caused insurance claims to...