The European Council and Parliament have reached an agreement on the European Commission’s proposal to deregulate new GMOs.

Much like death, extinction is part of life, an inevitable, natural phenomenon that has occurred cyclically throughout our planet’s history. Approximately 99 per cent of species that have walked the ...

Some of the earliest formulations of the idea come from Ancient Greece: South African philosopher David Benatar quotes the Greek tragedian Sophocles and the text of Ecclesiastes in his book Better ...

To date, over 1,600 human remains have been excavated from burial grounds across Hokkaido. Rarely engaging with local communities in obtaining their free, prior and informed consent, this has caused ...

It was renamed “doomsday seed vault”, but those who wanted it and take care of it don’t agree with this new name. The official name is Svalbard Global Seed Vault, it was created in 2008 in order to ...

For Mayan communities in the Mexican state of Campeche beekeeping is a millennial tradition and a strong part of their identity. The production of honey and beeswax from the Melipona bee (Xunan Kav in ...

Ecuador’s closed season bans the fishing of certain species for a few months each year, to help stocks recover to more sustainable levels. Ministerial Agreement 070 establishes a bycatch percentage ...

Tumbas. In the Colombian part of the Amazon, this is the name given to huge areas where all the trees have been felled and where land is subsequently burned. Tumbas also means tombs. Cemeteries in the ...

New research shows that artificial intelligence (AI) can track the health of coral reefs by analysing the sounds and noises emitted by its constitutive parts. Exeter University used the technology to ...

In 1674, residents of Fiesch, a village in the Swiss canton of Valais at the feet of the Greater Aletsch Glacier – the largest in the European Alps – established a Catholic ritual to ask the heavens ...

How much more CO2 can we emit? Scientists have made different calculations to work out how much of the carbon budget humanity still has at its disposal. A think tank called MCC, using data from the ...

For two decades the Poison Cartel – the “big six” pesticide and GMO companies owning the world’s seeds – has been corrupting our governments, our regulatory agencies and some of our scientists to push ...