{"id":15701,"date":"2024-08-29T08:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T06:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/29\/who-wins-from-natures-genetic-bounty-the-billions-at-stake-in-a-global-biopiracy-battle\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T06:38:28","slug":"who-wins-from-natures-genetic-bounty-the-billions-at-stake-in-a-global-biopiracy-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/29\/who-wins-from-natures-genetic-bounty-the-billions-at-stake-in-a-global-biopiracy-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Who wins from nature\u2019s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global \u2018biopiracy\u2019 battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As multinationals and researchers harvest rare organisms around the world, anger is rising in the global south<strong> <\/strong>over the unpaid use of lucrative genetic codes found on their land<\/p>\n<p>Even in the warm summer sun, the stagnant puddles and harsh rock faces of Ribblehead quarry in North Yorkshire feel like an unlikely frontier of the AI industrial revolution. Standing next to a waterfall that bursts out from the fractured rock, Bupe Mwambingu reaches into the green sludge behind the cascade and emerges with fistful of algae.<\/p>\n<p>Balancing precariously on the rocks, the researcher passes the dripping mass to her colleague Emma Bolton, who notes their GPS coordinates and the acidity, temperature and light exposure on a phone app.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/aug\/29\/nature-biodiversity-genetic-digital-sequencing-information-dsi-biopiracy-cop16-aoe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/fdd7e0c3680336135ab0e03fa9c2cb1d55875f05\/0_197_4677_2806\/master\/4677.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=546aa83e237e93417a0fa87657cce236\" title=\"Who wins from nature\u2019s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global \u2018biopiracy\u2019 battle\" \/>As multinationals and researchers harvest rare organisms around the world, anger is rising in the global south over the unpaid use of lucrative genetic codes found on their land<br \/>\nEven in the warm summer sun, the stagnant puddles and harsh rock faces of Ribblehead quarry in North Yorkshire feel like an unlikely frontier of the AI industrial revolution. Standing next to a waterfall that bursts out from the fractured rock, Bupe Mwambingu reaches into the green sludge behind the cascade and emerges with fistful of algae.<br \/>\nBalancing precariously on the rocks, the researcher passes the dripping mass to her colleague Emma Bolton, who notes their GPS coordinates and the acidity, temperature and light exposure on a phone app. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As multinationals and researchers harvest rare organisms around the world, anger is rising in the global south over the unpaid use of lucrative genetic codes found on their land Even in the warm summer sun, the stagnant puddles and harsh rock faces of Ribblehead quarry in North Yorkshire feel like an unlikely frontier of the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/29\/who-wins-from-natures-genetic-bounty-the-billions-at-stake-in-a-global-biopiracy-battle\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who wins from nature\u2019s genetic bounty? The billions at stake in a global \u2018biopiracy\u2019 battle<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}