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The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to ban glyphosate, reform the EU pesticide approval process, and set mandatory targets to reduce pesticide use in the EU surpassed one million signatures last week. The ECI has fulfilled the requirements set by the EU in less than five months, making it the fastest-growing...

Three U.S. nonprofit groups filed  a suit Thursday against Mississippi based Sanderson Farms, Inc. for falsely advertising products that contain a wide...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of the Inspector General released a report Wednesday recommending that before approving pesticides,...

Rising use of glyphosate, the world’s most heavily applied herbicide, is putting the population at risk of significant health problems, according...

It was over a year ago when MEPs Bart Staes, Benedek Jávor, Heidi Hautala and Michèle Rivasi first sent the European Food and Safety Authority (EFSA)...

The French Senate has adopted the European resolution to ban non-agricultural pesticides across Europe, Senator Joël Labbé  announced on Wednesday....

As CRISPR-Cas9 starts to move into clinical trials, a new study published in Nature Methods has found that the gene-editing technology can introduce...

Major news on the glyphosate front: the first ever independent analysis of the complete confidential data set sent by industry to the EU for the re-licensing...

The same Monsanto manager, Dr. George Levinskas, who helped hide the carcinogenic potential of PCBs in the 1970s, has now been shown, in California court...

Every winter, trees on high mountains in a small area northwest of Mexico City turn orange. Close inspection reveals branches filled with brilliantly colorful...