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In a major victory for health and environmental groups, a California court has ruled (see here and here) that a sweeping state pesticide spraying program is unlawful. The court found the program failed to adequately study and minimize public health threats from pesticides and failed to properly inform...

Documents released by the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by Beyond GM,...

Human activities are damaging and degrading the lands of the Earth to the point where up to 40% of global terrain has been devalued, according to a new...

The U.S. Solicitor General on Tuesday dealt a blow to Monsanto owner Bayer AG, advising the U.S. Supreme Court that it should deny the company’s request...

Overlooking potential public health risks, lingering scientific questions, and deficient public data, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer...

Thousands of the most notorious chemicals will be rapidly banned in Europe, the European Commission announced today, as part of the Zero-pollution goal...

Dewayne Johnson, a Bay Area groundskeeper, suffered from rashes in 2014 and wondered if they were caused by the herbicide he’d been using for the...

Insects are critical to the future of our planet. They help to keep pest species under control and break down dead material to release nutrients into the...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety filed a legal petition recently calling for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to end the...

For over 20 years in news story after news story they’ve been telling us that only GM can save the banana – and yet again, such claims turn out...