Docs: Monsanto Recruited Scientists To Fight Glyphosate Cancer Stigma
"Canadian firm hired to recruit scientists to publish studies that ultimately defended Roundup's key ingredient".
Source: CBC News, 03/12/2019
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"US Plans End To Wolf Protections; Critics Say It’s Premature"
"U.S. wildlife officials plan to lift protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48 states, re-igniting the legal battle over a predator that’s running into conflicts with farmers and ranchers as its numbers rebound in some regions."
Source: AP, 03/07/2019
Perfecting Your Panorama Technique
In this how-to, veteran environmental photojournalist Dennis Dimick shares new techniques for capturing panoramas from the air — while on commercial plane flights — in order to illustrate human impacts on the landscape. Plus, Dimick details how and why he developed the new approach, in our latest EJ InSight column exploring the cutting edge of visual journalism on the environment.
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Capturing a Planet on the Fly
Capturing panoramas from the air has become a passion for veteran environmental photojournalist Dennis Dimick. In the latest EJ InSight, our new column exploring the cutting edge of visual journalism on the environment, Dimick describes how he visualizes the expanding human footprint of the emergent Anthropocene era — by shooting from commercial airplane flights. Plus, Dimick shares his techniques in a how-to sidebar.
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Will Appeals Court Make EPA Ban Pesticide With Serious Health Risks?
"Eric Perez and his wife, Mari, live with their five children in the Wenatchee Valley in central Washington state. Their house is just feet from an orchard. A couple of years ago, the kids were having an Easter egg hunt in the yard when they smelled something 'plasticky,' Perez remembers — like 'rotten eggs.'"
Source: NPR, 03/01/2019
Judge Throws Out Federal Defamation Lawsuit Against New York Times
"A University of Florida horticulture professor known for his scientific defense of genetically modified foods lost his defamation suit against journalist Eric Lipton and the New York Times for describing his close relationships with biotech giants including Monsanto."
Source: Tallahassee Democrat, 03/01/2019
"Ohio City Votes To Give Lake Erie Personhood Status Over Algae Blooms"
"New law will allow people of Toledo to act as legal guardians for Lake Erie, and polluters could be sued to pay for cleanup costs"
Source: Guardian, 02/28/2019
USDA Issuing Far Fewer Citations For Animal Welfare Violations
"USDA inspectors documented 60 percent fewer violations at animal facilities in 2018 from the previous year, in what animal protection groups say is the latest sign of weakened enforcement by an agency charged with ensuring pet breeders, research labs, zoos and other exhibitors follow federal animal welfare laws."
Source: Washington Post, 02/27/2019
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