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(Natural News) According to the biotech industry, genetically modified (GM) foods would help reduce pesticide use and increase the nutritional content of various food products. They also promised that GM crops could help farmers by boosting their profits and feed the world by increasing crop yields. But data has proven that GM crops have done… […]
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Historic Biodiversity Agreement Reached At UN Conference
December 19th, 2022 
Awake Goy The framework reaffirms the rights of Indigenous peoples and ensures they have a voice in any decision making. Source Views: 0
United Nations Biodiversity Talks In Final Days With Many Issues Unresolved
December 18th, 2022 Awake Goy Negotiators at a United Nations conference have yet to resolve how to protect biodiversity and provide funding to poor countries as talks reach their their final stages. Source Views: 0
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No Comments »Meet the industry lobbyists fighting efforts to solve the biodiversity crisis
October 25th, 2022 Awake Goy “This research sheds new light on an area of lobbying that has largely been able to slip under the radar and should act as a wake-up call to policymakers ahead of the U.N.’s upcoming biodiversity conference,” said InfluenceMap’s program manager. Source Views: 0
Posted in Jewish News Tags: biodiversity, crisis, efforts, fighting, industry, lobbyists, solve No Comments »Biodiversity Risks To Linger At Least A Half Century After Temperature Peaks
July 3rd, 2022 Awake Goy Even if global temperatures start to decrease, after peaking this century due to climate change, biodiversity risks are likely to persist for decades, a new study by London’s Global University (UCL) and University of Cape Town researchers finds. The potential impacts on biodiversity were modeled against pre-industrial levels if temperatures increased by more than 2°C (35.6°F), before […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: after, biodiversity, century, least, linger, risks, temperature No Comments »Fifteen Things Biodiversity Protectors Are Watching Out For In 2022
January 3rd, 2022 Awake Goy Above Photo: Bees are seen on a honeycomb cell at the BEE Lab hives at The University of Sydney on May 18, 2021 in Sydney, Australia. Lisa Maree Williams / Getty Images. It’s no secret that the diversity of life around us is plummeting fast. In 2020 alone, scientists declared more than 100 species to […]
Patents, Biodiversity, and Genetic Ownership
November 9th, 2021 Awake Goy Patents, Biodiversity, and Genetic Ownership “Let’s assume some Dr. Neo Frankenfauci bent over a bubbling cauldron somewhere in the bowels of the International Technoapparatchikcrats’ Institute for Genetic Shenanigans is cooking up a potion that includes all sorts of secret ingredients in the recipe, things like heavy metals and parasites and a clever code in the messenger […]
The United States Must Rejoin the Global Biodiversity Conservation Community
October 13th, 2021 Awake Goy Snow geese, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico. After spending the winter in New Mexico, the snow geese go to the Arctic (Alaska, Nunavut, Siberia) for nesting and rearing their young. (Photo: Subhankar Banerjee, 1998). After a long stretch of public inattention, biodiversity conservation is a hot topic again, as if we had […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: biodiversity, community, conservation, global, rejoin, states, united No Comments »Bridge the North-South divide for a UN Biodiversity Framework that is more just
September 24th, 2021 Awake Goy This month, the leaders of nation states from around the world have been gathered in New York City to attend the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. Covid, climate and biodiversity are among the topics they are expected to address. Indeed, on September 21, in his sobering yet passionate address to the assembly, UN Secretary-General António […]
There can be no biodiversity without human diversity
June 1st, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: By Cynthia Alonso for UNICEF The idea that humans are a danger to nature is deeply rooted in some minds. However, it is based on an ethnocentric vision of what the term ‘human’ encompasses. Not all human beings destroy the earth. It is our consumerist lifestyle and economic model based on infinite growth […]
Youth Launch ‘Stronger Campaign’ For UN Biodiversity Day
May 26th, 2021 Awake Goy Above Photo: Alison Kentish/IPS. Tired with Tokenism. International Day for Biological Diversity is observed on May 22 under the theme ‘we’re part of the solution.’ A network of youth groups is informing policymakers that young people are tired of the same old rhetoric and platitudes. The Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) has put leaders and […]
Birds and Biodiversity : The Pillar of life on Earth
May 20th, 2021 Awake Goy Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears ,as close to us and everyone in the world as universal as birds David Attenborough A healthy planet and rich biodiversity are essential for our health and wellbeing. The emergence of COVID -19 has underscored the fact that when we destroy […]
Páramos at risk: The interconnected threats to a biodiversity hotspot
May 4th, 2021 Awake Goy Image Credit: The Bogotá Post On a recent, pre-pandemic journey to the High Andes of Colombia, I found myself surrounded by one of the region’s emblematic species, the flowering shrubs known locally as frailejones or “big monks.” These giant plants, relatives of sunflowers from the Espeletia genus, mesmerized me, their yellow buds and silvery hairs […]
Posted in Climate Change Tags: biodiversity, hotspot, interconnected, paramos, threats No Comments »Iran among world’s richest in biodiversity, genetics
April 5th, 2021 Awake Goy TEHRAN – There are 11 types of ecosystems in the world, 9 of which are identified in Iran, On the other hand, out of 42 types of wetlands, 41 types exist in the country. Therefore, Iran is one of the 20 countries rich in biodiversity and genetics. Biological and genetic diversity in our country has […]
Protecting Indigenous Languages is Protecting Biodiversity
November 30th, 2020 Awake Goy One million animal and plant species face extinction due to human activity, according to the United Nations. Now, think about cultural production—art and literature that we have invested to address the extinction of just a handful of species (passenger pigeon included). Quite a bit actually. The extinction of one million species feels rather abstract, beyond […]
European Commission authorises GMO soybeans for food and feed in huge new Biodiversity attack.
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World Misses 2020 Biodiversity Goals
September 17th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Women transferring fish from boats on the shores of Lake Volta, Ghana. Nana Kofi Acquah / IWMI/Flickr. UN draft report leaked. Global Biodiversity Outlook draft finds funding shortfalls and failure to account for the role of women held back progress on restoring ecosystems. Over the last decade, governments have failed to meet any of the internationally […]
WWF Report Shows An Alarming Amount of Global Biodiversity Loss Due To A Growing Demand For Meat
October 14th, 2017 Awake Goy Next Story When we think of animal agriculture, we often focus on the animals who are tortured, killed, and then eaten. However, animal agriculture affects a lot more animals outside of the ones that are farmed for consumption. Meat-based diets have a significant impact on water and land, which means that the land animals and fish […]
Posted in World News Tags: alarming, amount, biodiversity, global, growing, report, shows No Comments »Israeli regime tools to penetrate to other countries
February 2nd, 2016 Awake Goy Alwaght- In today’s world, economy and weapons represent power in international relations and are essential components of growing influence on other countries. Weaknesses in each of these factors can affect the way a country pursues its goals in other countries. Jeff Halpr, a political activist with a US-Israeli nationality, in his recent work, “War against […]
Israeli regime tools to penetrate to other countries
February 2nd, 2016 Awake Goy Alwaght- In today’s world, economy and weapons represent power in international relations and are essential components of growing influence on other countries. Weaknesses in each of these factors can affect the way a country pursues its goals in other countries. Jeff Halpr, a political activist with a US-Israeli nationality, in his recent work, “War against […]
