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04/21/2018 / By Zoey Sky

New biochemical leaching process uses corn stover to recover rare earth metals from electronic waste

A study has determined that aside from being used as fodder or bedding, corn stover can be used as feedstock for a new biochemical leaching process. This revolutionary process helps recover valuable rare earth metals from electronic waste. The biochemical leaching process is similar to a mining process and it requires the use of corn stover. […]

03/25/2018 / By David Williams

Stronghold of all the world’s seeds in the Global Seed Vault reaches the one million mark

The world’s largest repository of crop seeds recently celebrated its 10th-year anniversary. And to mark the occasion, it received shipments of more than 70,000 additional crop varieties from a total of 23 different institutions for it to store. This new shipment just about bumped up its number of stored seeds over the one million mark. […]

01/03/2018 / By News Editors

The GMO agenda takes a menacing leap forward with EPA’s silent approval of Monsanto/Dow’s RNAi corn

Without much more than a whisper from the mainstream media, Monsanto’s newest Frankenfood has received full EPA approval and will be arriving on dinner plates by the end of the decade. The implications of this are harrowing, to say the least. Article by Sayer Ji republished from GreenMedInfo.com While you may not have made up […]

11/16/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Reverse 28 health conditions when you cut out GMOs — researchers tracked the health benefits

You might be aware that organic food is better for you than GMO options, but sometimes the price difference can be prohibitive. If you’ve ever stood in the produce section of the supermarket and asked yourself if the higher price tag on organic offerings is worth it, the results of a peer-reviewed study published recently […]

10/15/2017 / By Tracey Watson

Corn, the GM poster crop, will soon be nutritionally engineered to try to increase its value

If you were offered poison to eat, but were assured that scientists had added lots of beneficial vitamins and minerals to it, would you grab the opportunity to try some? Likely not, and yet that is what we as a society have been conditioned to do – just think of all those boxes of sugary […]

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