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Ignoring the legal requirement to examine threats to endangered species, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved Wednesday the use of the dangerously toxic herbicide dicamba on crops genetically modified to tolerate the chemical. Dicamba has been around for decades, but this new EPA decision allows...

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign Chairman, John Podesta, who is at the center of the Wikileaks e-mail storm, has now been linked to lobbying payments...

Despite massive pressure from U.S. multinational Monsanto and the Ukrainian Grain Association, Ukraine’s Parliamentary Committee on Agrarian Policy...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has slammed Reuters for industry biased reporting, in a press release sent to global media on Thursday,...

Pope Francis has made his strongest attack yet on genetically modified plants and animals (GMOs) and the Biotech Industry (which includes companies such...

In a “state of the science” review released Tuesday, PAN International presents a large body of research documenting the adverse human health and environmental...

The United Nations has forecast that world food production must double to feed 9 billion people by 2050. That assertion has become a relentless talking...

Last week the U.S. corporation Monsanto, which holds a leading position in the global market of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), reached a licensing...

The European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) is set to release the raw data used in the recent EU safety evaluation of glyphosate to MEPs, as part of its commitment...

Portuguese farmers are turning their backs on Monsanto’s genetically modified MON810, which is the only GM crop commercially grown in the European...