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GMO Soy farming has been linked to a rise in child cancer deaths in Brazil, the world’s biggest producer and exporter of the oilseed and one of the top users of pesticides for protecting crops from disease and pests, according to a study in the South American country. Source: Reuters The peer-reviewed...

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...

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...