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Carbon nanotubes – thin, hollow cylinders made of carbon atoms – look very much like asbestos. In 2004, the United Kingdom’s Royal Society and risk specialists at the world’s second largest reinsurance agent Swiss...

‘Geo-engineering’ is the ultimate in pursuit of high risk ‘techno-fixes’ to the world’s big ecological problems. Its proponents want to use technology to attempt to ‘re-engineer’ the environment, for example by fertilising the ocean...

Nanotechwire.com news service warns that the US “EPA Nanotechnology Voluntary Program Risks Becoming a ‘Black Hole'”. The service reports that: “Six months after launching its voluntary reporting program for nanomaterial producers, EPA has made...

Australian Greens Senator Christine Milne has a long-standing interest in nanotechnology and new technology issues. In the June Government Estimates hearings, Senator Milne grilled Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr, the head of the Department’s...

Mesothelioma.com, “the authority on mesothelioma and asbestos cancer”, have published an information sheet that warns that exposure to nanotubes could pose similar risks to those of asbestos. “Current research suggests that exposure to carbon-based...

The European Trade Union Confederation, representing 82 European trade unions, has called for the “no safety data, no market” principle to be applied to nanoparticles. In its new statement the ETUC “calls on the...

New scientific evidence has been published that multi-walled carbon nanotubes – the so-called ‘wonder material’ of nanotechnology – cause mesothelioma in test mice. A scientific study published in the May issue of "Nature Nanotechnology"...

New research published this week shows that multi-walled carbon nanotubes cause asbestos-like disease when injected into mice stomachs. The shocking findings have prompted The Australian Cancer Council’s CEO Professor Ian Olver to call for...

We have just published English, French and Spanish summaries of our report "Out of the laboratory and on to our plates: Nanotechnology in food and agriculture". You can download them below.

Australian academics have published a wide-ranging analysis (download paper below) of nanotechnology’s likely transformation of food and agricultural systems. Dr Gyorgy Scrinis and Dr Kristen Lyons write: “Nanotechnology is attracting large-scale investment from global...