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The Russian government’s legislative commission has approved a bill toughening penalties for GMO (genetically modified organism) labeling violations, RIA Novosti reported Tuesday. Source: rapsinews.com The bill which was submitted by the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Protection and Welfare...

A pesticide that the Parks Department sprayed onto public greenspaces more than 1,300 times last year may be associated with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and breast...

Brazilian scientists and members of social movements have appealed to Pope Francis to join forces with them in an attempt to persuade the Brazilian government...

The China Development Strategy Research Society Committee of Cultural Strategy organized a unique event in Beijing during the last week of July to discuss...

Today, 64 established scientists, researchers and professionals submitted an open letter to the U.S. National Academy of Science’s National Research...

CCTV, China’s state broadcaster, has discovered genetically modified rice being sold in two southern provinces, the second such allegation it has...

Commissioned by the 2014 Food Safety and Sustainable Agriculture Forum, YIELD presents testimonies from the cotton farmers in Vidarbha, Maharashtra. The...

Prominent doctors, scientists and business leaders today urged Congress to pressure the Obama administration to reject an application to market “Enlist...

A deadly combination of the excessive use of Glyphosate herbicide on GM soybean crops and inaction by local doctors has allegedly left two children dead...

Civil society groups today expressed alarm at an increase in dengue incidence, leading to an emergency decree, in a town in Brazil where releases of genetically...