Today, Japan sustained its biggest strike since the 1982 global moratorium on commercial whaling with a ruling by the International Court of Justice that its current southern ocean whaling activities are in breach of the International Convention on the Regulation of Whaling. (hsi.org)
New drive to end genetically modified Terminator seed ban could succeed, making Brazil the first nation to defy global moratorium on crops with built - in sterility. (news.mongabay.com)
World governments at a United Nations biodiversity meeting this week rejected calls for a global moratorium on gene drives, a technology that can rapidly spread modified genes through populations and could be used to engineer entire species. (scientificamerican.com)