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The EPA recently released a long-awaited draft report demonstrating that toxic “forever chemicals” in sewage sludge applied to farmland can cause...

Leading scientists have called for a halt on research to create “mirror life” microbes amid concerns that the synthetic organisms would present an...

Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe and its members ClientEarth, Générations Futures, GLOBAL 2000, Pesticide Action Network Germany and Pesticide Action...

Environmental exposure to toxins in the air, water or certain chemicals can increase the risk of ill health effects, including to the human brain. Now,...

In a precedential victory for food and environmental safety, a federal district court ruled this week that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) must...

After years of being detected at alarming levels, the pesticide glyphosate is being found at lower levels, on average, in cereal and other oat-based products...

On the fiftieth anniversary of the controversial weedkiller’s release, a Friends of the Earth analysis  – New Roundup, New Risks – finds that...

After decades of inaction, last Friday the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a proposed plan to implement its Endocrine-Disruptor Screening...

In 2017, two United Nations experts called for a treaty to strictly regulate dangerous pesticides, which they said were a “global human rights concern”,...