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A Philadelphia jury on Friday hit Bayer/Monsanto with a $175 million verdict in favor of a cancer patient who claimed the company failed to warn about known carcinogens in its best-selling herbicide, Roundup. Source: Environmental Health News The verdict is part of a string of nine- and 10-figure judgments...

Childhood Leukemia and leukemia in young adults has increased by an estimated 35% since 1975, with an increase most recently of around 1% a year, according...

Glyphosate-based herbicides are the most popular form of weed control in the world but times are changing and there is a surge in interest amongst both...

Germany wants glyphosate to be abandoned in the EU amid warnings of the risk of heterogeneous regulations. The move comes after the European Commission’s...

Civil society and Indigenous Peoples organisations numbering 373, from 74 countries, urged leaders at a historic global conference to act with urgency...

As biotech and agrichemical companies push to commercialise genetically modified (GM) soil microbes for agriculture, a new report from Friends of the Earth...

A new peer-reviewed study released by a group of scientists in Taiwan has revealed an astonishingly strong link between severe depression, cognitive decline...

Reinforcing earlier findings, a new systematic review published in Chemosphere finds the popular herbicide glyphosate and its formulations (glyphosate-based...

Negotiations have started in Brussels on the regulation of new genomic techniques. The Hungarian strategy remains unchanged. Hungary will continue to stand...

About three million tonnes of agricultural pesticides are used across the globe each year, yet little is known about where or in which environments these...