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Following in the footsteps of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has dismissed scientific evidence showing that the controversial weedkiller glyphosate could cause cancer. The ECHA assessment, released Wednesday, could pave the way for a new 15-year EU licence...

The Environmental Protection Agency official who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of Monsanto Co.’s Roundup allegedly bragged to a company...

California has been enabled to become the first U.S. state to require Monsanto to label its blockbuster weed killer, Roundup, as a possible carcinogen,...

U.S. Right to Know, a consumer advocacy organization, filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating...

Two United Nations experts are calling Tuesday for a comprehensive new global treaty to regulate and phase out the use of dangerous pesticides in farming,...

A former Environmental Protection Agency official may not be able to escape testifying about his alleged role in helping Monsanto to suppress inquiries...

Representatives from over 100 countries, including virtually all areas of food production, manufacturing, retailing and soil science have, for the first...

The Vietnamese government has officially announced a ban on Syngenta’s paraquat, a highly hazardous pesticide (HHP) and Dow Chemicals’  2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic...

Scientists at the University of York in England have discovered for the first time that the sequence of exposure to pesticides and pollutants significantly...

The first-ever study to map U.S. wild bees suggests they are disappearing in the country’s most important farmlands – from California’s...