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Green groups demand Swiss industry waste clean up

2010-05-20T12:15:49Z

Environment groups called Thursday on pharmaceutical giant Novartis and other chemical firms to pay for the clean-up of toxic waste that they had dumped in northern Switzerland.

"The chemical and pharmaceutical industry of Basel dumped in the 1950s and 1960s about 40,000 tonnes of chemical products, some of which were highly toxic," s...

Fury as Brussels authorises GM potatoes

2010-03-03T08:16:18Z

The European Commission on Tuesday approved the cultivation of genetically-modified potatoes, prompting an angry response from environmental campaign groups and two EU member governments.

Austria said it was planning an immediate ban on the potatoes' cultivation, while It...

Tests on treasured maize ignite fears in Mexico

2010-04-16T09:33:07Z

As scientists race the clock to increase food production worldwide, new trials to plant genetically-modified maize have stoked anger in Mexico, the cradle of corn.

Many here are sensitive about meddling with maize, which dates back to pre-Hispanic times, when mythologies held that people were created from corn.

Some fear Mexico could one day lose the wealth of native varieties it still produces, including red and blue, to a few, tou...

World must use GM crops, says UK science academy

2010-10-22T10:24:44Z

LONDON (Reuters) - The world needs genetically modified crops both to increase food yields and minimize the environmental impact of farming, Britain's top science academy said on Wednesday.

The Royal Society said in a report the world faced a "grand challenge" to feed another 2.3 billion peopl...

GM crops found to affect reproduction in mice: Austrian study

2010-04-16T14:28:10Z

Genetically-modified maize can affect reproduction in mice, an Austrian study has found, although its authors have dismissed warnings by environmental groups that it could also harm humans.

The long-term study, which was commissioned by the Austrian health ministry, found that female mice that had been given a diet consisting of 33 percent genetically-modified (GM) maize had fewer babies and fewer litters than those fed on non-GM food after a few generations.

But the authors ...

Mexico Climate Conference

2010-12-11T09:31:27Z

A man walks next to Greenpeace activists who form the word hope as a question with their bodies, next to a giant life saver, during a demonstration near the site of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mex...

CORRECTION Mexico Climate Conference

2010-12-13T07:32:39Z

Greenpeace activists form the word hope as a question with their bodies, next to a giant life saver, during a demonstration near the site of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, Dec. 10...

Mexico Climate Change

2010-11-29T08:01:24Z

In this image released by Greenpeace on Sunday Nov. 28, 2010, a giant balloon rises next to the Chichen-Itza pyramids in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, Sunday Nov. 28, 2010. Facing another year without a global deal to curb climate change, the world's nations will spend the ...

France Tuna

2010-11-24T03:32:00Z

In this photo released by environmental group Greenpeace on Tuesday Nov. 23 2010, activists hang a banner reading "Save the Bluefin Tuna Now" on a Paris bridge, Monday night Nov. 22, 2010 while delegates attending the Greenpeace fixed themselves in a concrete block, is guarded by police officers in Dannenberg, northern Germany, early Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010. The truck with special boxes set inside and under that blocked the first crossroad where the transport of nuclear waste is supposed to pass for more than eleven hours. The s...