My story on the new dating service...for 'wild relatives' of crops--key to climate resilience for our food. Just up on Civil Eats @insideclimatenews Meet the Researchers ‘Decolonizing Botany’ to Save Our Food Supply via
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Most recent book: SEEDS OF RESISTANCE: The Fight to Save Our Food Supply; Lecturer, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
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A new development in the search for climate-resilient crops: the new dating service for their 'wild relatives'. My story just up via
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A new development in the search for climate-resilient food crops: a dating service for their 'wild relatives'. My story just up via @insideclimatenews
Meet the Researchers ‘Decolonizing Botany’ to Save Our Food Supply viahttps://bit.ly/3BAC7Z6
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Excellent piece on wild crop relatives by my friend Mark Schapiro bit.ly/3AMktzD bit.ly/3AMktzD
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Excellent piece on wild crop relatives by my friend Mark Schapiro bit.ly/3AMktzD
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Wild relatives, anyone? They're the key to climate resilience, as a new generation of botanists create a dating service for the undomesticated cousins of our food crops. My latest, Inside Climate News
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A century ago Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov traveled the world searching for seeds and showed how seed exchanges could benefit all. Today, a BBC investigation: the Russians are stealing the seeds from the Ukrainian towns they invaded
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As Pres Biden heads into the House of Saud, here's my piece on how the royal family is a major player in plastics, and all their associated environmental health consequences, in the US--and how MbS, who Biden's sitting down with, profits...Out today
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Thinking of a new environmental story? Drop on by this May 24, I'll be doing a trans-continental session with the great Le Monde journalist Stephane Horel on environmental investigations. Sponsored by the new fund supporting European/intl environmental investigative reporting.
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NEW #webinar alert Earth Programme @journalismfund
"Contextualise your Environmental Story"
By Stephane Horel @stephanehorel & Mark Schapiro @schapiro
Tuesday 24 May 2022 at 
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Another unexpected climate consequence: How climate change heightens the threat to drinking water. My latest:
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GREAT NEWS: Started as a project for our Earth Journalism class and Brett took off for Bogota, where he executed beautifully a multimedia story about a gondola as a step toward bridging the economic divide. Read/View and find out what happened.Congrats Brett!
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Congrats to Brett Marsh of @ucbsoj, one of our Earth Journalism Scholars, for winning @ONA's Student Journalism Award for his piece on Colombia's transit infrastructure and accessibility. Read it: awards.journalists.org/entries/hope-a
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Worth watching the industry newsletters for many reasons. Here's one: Banks increasingly wary of financing new oil drilling ops. Behind a Shipping Watch paywall, but one more clue of trouble ahead for oil/gas as financial world awakens to climate change
The climate crisis=food crisis, more evidence every new hot dry day>>> Extreme heat and drought are colliding across large swaths of the United States, damaging corn crops in the process. bit.ly/2021Crops #climatematters via
CC coming at us in many forms, all at once....excellent piece by When Climate Change Comes to Your Doorstep
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In Seeds of Resistance I described melting in Norway threatening the world's seed bank. Now its melting even higher up, next door. Swedish mountain shrinks by two metres in a year as glacier melts
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"Fighting Attacks on Inconvenient Science—and Scientists" by Liza Gross () for News: insideclimatenews.org/news/24052021/
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Major move by Mexico. U.S. next?
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BREAKING: #Mexican court strikes down #Bayer/#Monsanto’s legal challenge over glyphosate ban. Great win for public health. @victor_suarez @IATP @Afsafrica @StacyMalkan @careygillam @pesticideaction @KenRoseboro @citizenstrade @annalappe @fmlappe @cadwego reuters.com/business/healt
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"An anti-science disinformation campaign of unprecedented magnitude and led by both multinational corporations and some governments, especially the Russian and US Governments, fuels the pandemic," says in
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"This is all about building the jobs of the future we want, not continuing to needle at an economy that will no longer be where our future lies." — on the clean energy future is building.
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For those interested in doing in-depth reporting on the food system, check out this excellent fellowship opportunity....
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Print and audio journalists: Apply to be a @UCBerkeley 11th Hour Food & Farming Journalism Fellow! $10K to report a long form print or audio story on food, health, agriculture, climate change +. Deadline 3/15. projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/foodfellows/
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Print and audio journalists: Apply to be a 11th Hour Food & Farming Journalism Fellow! $10K to report a long form print or audio story on food, health, agriculture, climate change +. Deadline 3/15. projects.journalism.berkeley.edu/foodfellows/
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The plastics version of a 'zoonotic' disease>>>PFAS compound associated with severe Covid-19 interc.pt/3gqbf1I by
My OpEd, out today in the LA Times, on the week in which every element that makes life on earth possible went haywire, and how they are all connected
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Follow the trail of consolidation straight to your kitchen....excellent piece on latest in the seed biz.
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As four seed companies now control more than 60 percent of the global market, a seed policy expert argues that consolidation poses major risks to our food supply. buff.ly/2D3DKQI #fromthearchives
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The chemical that built Monsanto/now Bayer, banned in Mexico. Main places its still used: USA, and other countries with weak health protections.
Mexico Bans Shipments and Use of Pesticide Glyphosate
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Finally, the link between poisoning fellow humans and the pro-life values make their way to toxic chemicals
Making toxic-free births a Christian issue
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First they cut a deal to get out from under the health consequences of Glyphosate. Then they breed another generation of chemical dependent seeds. #Civileats 'Bayer Forges Ahead with New Crops Resistant to 5 Herbicides' via Civil Eats -
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And finally, the reign of Glyphosate, key to the rise of Monsanto and GMOs, is coming to an end. Price of the poison could have been bigger, but its pretty big:
Bayer agrees to $10.9bn settlement over Monsanto’s weedkiller Roundup
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If more evidence ever needed about inequities of climate change impacts, here's more....Climate Change Tied to Pregnancy Risks, Affecting Black Mothers Most nytimes.com/2020/06/18/cli
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Monsanto's replacement for toxic glyphosate stopped in its tracks .....
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.@EPA's reckless defiance of the court order on #dicamba puts farmers at risk, yet again.
Thx to the great lawyers @CFSTrueFood & our other partners in this lawsuit for taking quick action to hold the agency accountable. @CenterForBioDiv @FamilyFarmCo
centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases
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This is beyond alarming
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We are on the brink of a farming catastrophe that will affect our relationship to good food for a generation. According to the monthlong survey we’ve just completed, 30 to 40 percent of the small, independent farms nationwide are facing bankruptcy. thecounter.org/covid-19-dan-b
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An inside look by two of our star J School reporters for the NYT at....How Do You Enforce a Law That Tramples the Land of the Free?
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Nine-tenths of Trump's accusations are projection.
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Lots to criticize in @WHO response. But Trump’s halting funds amid pandemic is obscene. Everything Trump has criticized @WHO - trusting China’s lies, flattering China, being late in sounding the #covid alarm - were the very mistakes Trump made & he’s a hell of a lot more powerful twitter.com/Quicktake/stat…
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This is a particular insult---the WHO is one of foremost health orgs in the world. Trump's trying to be the sole "expert." And btw, it was Monsanto that launched the anti-WHO campaign when it id'd Glyphosate as a carcinogen.
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US to halt funding to World Health Organization which 'failed in its basic duty' over coronavirus, Donald Trump says bbc.com/news/world-us-
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Shares down by almost 1/3 at Bayer after buying Monsanto and its liability load of carcinogenic Glyphosate ....
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The fruits of incompetence are bitter.
@Bayer’s #Roundup Woes May Force It to Sell Assets or Borrow. Via @business yhoo.it/3cfYgNj
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🇺🇦 Recommended read: Lecturer reports how "a bunch of gutsy Ukrainian journalists" helped light the fuse that led to Trump’s impeachment, in .
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Good news: Chlorpyrifos brain-harming pesticide gone. And the bigger news: What happens....When corporations regulate themselves | Pesticide Action Network panna.org/blog/when-corp via
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The real story behind the fake climate "debate.' Revealed: quarter of all tweets about climate crisis produced by bots theguardian.com/technology/202
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Bots: The real story behind the fake climate "debate."
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Important work, but I wish they’d published it before going to the media... @Revkin theguardian.com/technology/202