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Following the five-year re-approval of the active substance glyphosate by the European Union in 2017, the French health and safety agency ANSES is reviewing the market authorisations for glyphosate products sold in France and has launched a comparative assessment of the available alternatives. Source: ANSES...

Representatives from the European Member States in the EU Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCOPAFF) voted Friday to ban the neurotoxic pesticides...

Researchers have claimed a world first in herbicide resistance, after discovering a tropical weed in Western Australia’s far north that literally...

Amidst the clamor that surrounds Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) globally, a small but significant triumph panned out in South Africa last month....

A new report, Insect Declines and Why They Matter, commissioned by an alliance of UK Wildlife Trusts in the south west, concludes that drastic declines...

Last month in Ghana, Agnes Kalibata, President of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, congratulated an illustrious group of corporate and...

This month, the Thai government moved to ban some toxic chemicals out of concern for the health of its residents and environment. In response, U.S. Department...

Lawsuits against Bayer are on the rise over claims that the company’s weedkiller causes cancer. The legal cases have taken a toll on Bayer’s...

Thailand edged closer Tuesday to banning glyphosate and two other controversial pesticides despite protests from farmers in a multi-billion-dollar agriculture...

This week, the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) announced that the sale of the toxic pesticide, chlorpyrifos, will end in February 2020...