The direct action was filed with the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and is directed against the legislative bodies, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU. The NGT Regulation ...
Watch the video documenting the return of thousands of wild American chestnuts: The Wild American Chestnut: A Giant Returns ...
Appropriate procedures have to be introduced to assess the likelihood that a specific NGT plant could actually be produced by conventional breeding methods. (iii) As a general rule, NGT plants should ...
Europe hasn’t approved GMO purple tomato seeds, but despite their sale and cultivation being strictly prohibited, Latvian authorities recently found GMO tomato seedlings being sold at a leading ...
Accordingly, in their report, the ecologists ask that the EU institutions “Consult ecologists and microbiologists formally before regulatory changes proceed”. They say the absence of such ...
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Herbicides used on GMO corn remove soil-stabilising plants and trigger soil erosion. Report: Claire Robinson. In the Philippine highlands, forests have been stripped away by inten ...
Jennifer Doudna and colleagues used an AI model system to make better CRISPR/Cas gene-editing tools, but the results are underwhelming. Report: Claire Robinson* For many years GMWatch has made the ...
Save Our Seeds and GMWatch explore the fate of the bold claims made for agricultural GMOs Whatever happened to GM Golden Rice? And wasn’t GM salmon supposed to revolutionise aquaculture? Three decades ...
Belgium has granted permission for emergency use of an RNAi pesticide even though it's not approved at EU level POLLINIS and Nature & Progrès Belgium have taken legal action and filed an appeal for ...
Spread of GM crops has not contributed to chemical reductions or land reclamations, but to increased use of the pesticides they were claimed to curtail. Report: Claire Robinson GM crops have increased ...
On 24 March Fernando Mécoli, a judge in the Civil and Commercial Court of Rosario, Argentina, ruled that bankruptcy proceedings should be initiated against Bioceres SA, the Argentine parent company of ...