I retired 10 years ago after a long career as a research scientist for Agriculture Canada. When I was on the payroll, I was the designated scientist of my...
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San Quentin is one of the nation’s most notorious maximum security prisons. But it is also known for an unusual inmate rehabilitation program. Insight-Out’s...
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Winner of the Golden Spire Award at the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival, this extraordinary documentary takes viewers into India’s largest prison...
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Salmon Confidential is a new film on the government cover up of what is killing BC’s wild salmon. When biologist Alexandra Morton discovers BC’s wild salmon...
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In February 2012, Mohamed Nasheed resigned the presidency under the threat of violence in a coup d’etat perpetrated by security forces loyal to the former...
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Over the span of two months, PETA went undercover into the world of pigeon racing in the United Kingdom and discovered widespread alleged illegal activity and deadly...
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A new study published earlier this year in Marine Policy put the number of sharks slaughtered each year at 100 million, or roughly three sharks caught per second....
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A new investigation by Global Witness today reveals the systemic corruption and illegality at the heart of government in Sarawak, Malaysia’s largest state. A film,...
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Long Napir, Malaysia – Plantations and logging are ravaging Malaysia’s majestic Borneo region and indigenous people who have lived for centuries here say...
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To read about ENI’s alleged meetings with Etete, click here. Meanwhile Shell attempts to weaken laws that will reveal such payments Via...
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Global Witness welcomes Interpol’s announcement that it has arrested nearly 200 people and seized around US$8 million worth of illegal timber in a major international...
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To those who would argue that the notion of a perpetual motion machine is impossible, we give you the revolving door — that ever-spinning entrance and exit between...
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We know fracking isn’t exactly the safest of practices. We’ve heard of its propensity to pollute our air and drinking water and thereby raise human health concerns....
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Today’s generation of youth, the largest in history, has the power to change the world. But many of the 600 million adolescent girls living in developing countries...
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In a recent survey, five percent of men reported they participated in gang rape in Cambodia – one of the highest rates in the Asia-Pacific region. Via Al...
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When political leaders look at the need to cut carbon dioxide emissions to curb global warming, they ask the question: How much of a cut is politically feasible? At the...
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For years, Los Angeles has been ground zero in an intense debate about how to improve our nation’s education system. What’s less known is who is shaping that debate....
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Big food companies have a new secret weapon aimed right at your kid’s sweet tooth: milk. Via sumofus.org Yes, milk. The powerful dairy lobby is pushing the FDA to...
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While we may be under the impression that our system of government is here to protect us, corporations—and the politicians getting paychecks from them—do a fair job...
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If you thought you were a major contributor to pollution, just wait until you hear this. Factory farms produce 100 times more waste than every single person in the...
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What does the future of renewable energy look like? Answers to this question can be found in the REN21 Renewables Global Futures Report (GFR), which was launched in...
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The mapping platform extends its database to cover all 9 Amazonian countries Gustavo Faleiros and his team at O Eco, a Brazilian environmental news agency, are the lead...
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Australia is one of the richest nations in the world. Yet there is a growing poverty gap which can be seen in suburbs like Claymore. The New South Wales government built...
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People & Power investigates one of the world’s most forgotten conflicts – the West Papuan struggle for independence. When the Dutch decolonised their...
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I’ll always remember one of my first clients who told me that I had a very hard job, because she saw it as my job “to put the soul back in the body.” This remains...
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. Consuming Kids throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything...
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If you think that a functioning democracy and 21st century economy depends on a populus comfortable with basic algebra, then this is a frightening study. Via...
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KABUL – This thought-provoking, full-length documentary tells the story of how girls and boys in Kabul discover skateboarding and make it their own, bringing about the...
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Following the groundbreaking French study that graphically linked the lifetime consumption of Monsanto’s GMO corn in rats to massive tumors and direct organ...
Read MoreAsuncion/London/Edinburgh/Buffalo, 21 September 2012 On the occasion of the International Day of Protest Against Monoculture Tree Plantations {1}, the Global Forest...
Read MoreI want you to imagine a generation that has been damned, imagine children deprived of a world without war, imagine a community where human beings are slaves to fellow...
Read Morevia GRAIN: http://www.grain.org/e/4572 LVC, GRAIN, ETC Group, FoEI, MMM, CLOC, Re:Common | 14 September 2012 | Other publications 14 September 2012 La Via Campesina...
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Polly is on the course of making environmental destruction history – through law. While this idea may seem a hopeless dream to most, Polly’s proposition is already...
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Two US air force trainers have been sentenced in connection with a widening sexual abuse scandal at one of the busiest military training centers in the nation. Via Al...
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A study presented at the Days of Defense Against Environmental Hazards in Russia has unveiled once again the implicit dangers associated with the consumption of...
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Vandana Shiva calls us to join the Campaign for Seed Freedom by setting up seed banks – from private gardens to cooperatives. . “Seed is the source of life...
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As governments have failed to agree upon appropriate action in the interest of future generations at the Rio+20 Summit this summer, the World Future Council is now...
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Bill talks to scientist and philosopher Vandana Shiva, who’s become a rock star in the global battle over genetically modified seeds. These seeds —...
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Announcing the the YL WODAABE Alliance! It’s July 2012, and YL volunteers and readers chip in to facilitate an encounter between Nassamou, chief of the Puelh Wodaabe...
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Imagine my surprise when a journalist called me a year ago to ask for my comment on the news that a law of Ecocide had been considered an international...
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