Study: Roundup Has Ramped Up the Danger
Roundup isn’t just bad; it’s getting worse. A new report from Friends of the Earth (FOTE) claims that the world’s most widely used commercial...
We Need To End Government-Granted Patent Monopolies
Last week I saw a somewhat shabbily dressed man in the pharmacy trying to get a COVID booster. They told him it would cost...
Privatizing the Building Blocks of Life
In 2019, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals developed an Ebola vaccine known as Inmazeb using a genetic sequence of the virus collected from a 28-year-old Ebola survivor...
Nation’s First Commercial Carbon Sequestration Plant Is Leaking
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. This coverage is made possible through a partnership between Grist and WBEZ, a public radio...
Report: A Surge of Farm Waste Vulnerable to Flooding
In recent years, Southern states like Georgia and the Carolinas have seen an explosion in the number of poultry and swine CAFOs, or concentrated...
The U.S.-Mexico Trade War Over Modified Corn Heats Up
If the U.S. government was hoping a new president would weaken Mexico’s resolve to ban the cultivation and consumption of genetically modified corn, those...