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EcoReport - April 12, 2012

From: WFHB
Series: EcoReport
Length: 29:27

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Environmental headlines plus correspondent Dan Young speaks with Biologist Marti Crouch about the dangers of the new generation of genetically modified crops. Read the full description.

Badge-wo-tagline_small In today’s feature report, Biologist Marti Crouch talks about the ecological threat posed by the new generation of genetically modified herbicide resistant crops, and the coalition of scientists, farmers and environmentalists speaking out against them.

EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live.  Each program features timely eco-related headline news, a feature interview or event recording, and a calendar of events of interest to the environmentally conscious.

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Piece Description

In today’s feature report, Biologist Marti Crouch talks about the ecological threat posed by the new generation of genetically modified herbicide resistant crops, and the coalition of scientists, farmers and environmentalists speaking out against them.

EcoReport is a weekly program providing independent media coverage of environmental and ecological issues with a focus on local, state and regional people, issues, and events in order to foster open discussion of human relationships with nature and the Earth and to encourage you to take personal responsibility for the world in which we live.  Each program features timely eco-related headline news, a feature interview or event recording, and a calendar of events of interest to the environmentally conscious.

Additional Credits

Anchors: Dan Young, Phil Kasper
This week’s news stories were written by Rachel Cerrone, Linda Greene, Jennifer Whittaker, and Dan Young
Our weekly calendar is compiled by Laura Nading
This week’s show was engineered by Jim Lang
EcoReport is produced by Lucille Bertuccio and Megan Snook
Our Script Supervisor is Kelly Miller
Executive producer is Alycin Bektesh

Related Website

http://www.wfhb.org/news/ecoreport