Farmers sue to cancel transgenic-soybean patent

November 2017

Peru

For Amazon nations, forest pledges pose challenge

At the international climate summit this month in Bonn, Germany, tropical countries reinforced their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, but trends in ......

Mexico

Attempt to save vaquitas by captive breeding fails

Conservationists trying to save the endangered vaquita porpoise from the brink of extinction were disappointed this month after two porpoises they captured alive had to ......

Nicaragua

Nicaragua praised on climate stand, not on canal

Nicaragua took a bow on the world stage this month after agreeing to join the Paris climate accord. But at home, the government is taking ......

Brazil

Farmers sue to cancel transgenic-soybean patent

Soybean producers in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso asked a federal court this month to cancel a patent on Monsanto’s latest transgenic soy. The ......

Argentina

Pauli pitches “Blue Economy” ideas to Argentina

Making paper using stone waste from mines. Cultivating seaweed to produce biogas and fertilizer. Growing mushrooms in commercial quantities with compost made from coffee grounds ......

Around the Region

Ozone hole reaches its smallest size in 30 years

The ozone hole over Antarctica this year reached its smallest peak size since 1988, scientists say. Measurements by U.S. space and atmospheric agencies showed that ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Prized Inhotim Institute has PR challenge

A Brazilian mining magnate’s conviction on federal money laundering charges has cast a rare shadow of negative publicity over the Inhotim Institute, a widely admired, ......

Q&A

Lovejoy urges regional cooperation, experimentation in Amazonia

For the past half-century, biologist Thomas Lovejoy has watched changes unfold in the Amazon, studying habitat fragmentation, extinction rates and the effects of climate change. ......

Farmers sue to cancel transgenic-soybean patent

Brazil

Soybean producers in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso asked a federal court this month to cancel a patent on Monsanto’s latest transgenic soy. The suit argues that Monsanto’s patent for Intacta RR2 PRO, a follow-on product to its first-generation Roundup Ready soy (RR1), violates Brazil’s Industrial Property Law because it does not establish that the product is a genuinely new invention. The lawsuit, filed Nov. 8 by the Mato Grosso branch of Aprosoja, Brazil’s leading soy producers’ association, names Brazil’s National Industrial Property Institute (INPI) as co-defendant because in 2012 the agency granted and registered the patent for Intacta. It argues INPI shouldn’t have done so because Monsanto didn’t provide the agency with the technical information required to evaluate the patent... [Log in to read more]

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November 2017

Peru

For Amazon nations, forest pledges pose challenge

At the international climate summit this month in Bonn, Germany, tropical countries reinforced their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation, but trends in ......

Mexico

Attempt to save vaquitas by captive breeding fails

Conservationists trying to save the endangered vaquita porpoise from the brink of extinction were disappointed this month after two porpoises they captured alive had to ......

Nicaragua

Nicaragua praised on climate stand, not on canal

Nicaragua took a bow on the world stage this month after agreeing to join the Paris climate accord. But at home, the government is taking ......

Brazil

Farmers sue to cancel transgenic-soybean patent

Soybean producers in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso asked a federal court this month to cancel a patent on Monsanto’s latest transgenic soy. The ......

Argentina

Pauli pitches “Blue Economy” ideas to Argentina

Making paper using stone waste from mines. Cultivating seaweed to produce biogas and fertilizer. Growing mushrooms in commercial quantities with compost made from coffee grounds ......

Around the Region

Ozone hole reaches its smallest size in 30 years

The ozone hole over Antarctica this year reached its smallest peak size since 1988, scientists say. Measurements by U.S. space and atmospheric agencies showed that ......

Centerpiece (Free Read)

Prized Inhotim Institute has PR challenge

A Brazilian mining magnate’s conviction on federal money laundering charges has cast a rare shadow of negative publicity over the Inhotim Institute, a widely admired, ......

Q&A

Lovejoy urges regional cooperation, experimentation in Amazonia

For the past half-century, biologist Thomas Lovejoy has watched changes unfold in the Amazon, studying habitat fragmentation, extinction rates and the effects of climate change. ......