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The European Federation of Food, Agriculture and Tourism Trade Unions (EFFAT)  has called for an immediate ban on glyphosate-based herbicides and other harmful pesticides. In a press release on Friday EFFAT stated “Protecting agri-workers’ health is EFFAT’s number one priority. EFFAT calls for...

Bayer’s share price crashed over 4% on Thursday after Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California threw...

The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled last week that the European Commission was right to ban the use of three bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides...

A new study published Tuesday by the academic journal Frontiers in Environmental Science finds that pesticides widely used in American agriculture pose...

i News in the United Kingdom has revealed that the UK Environment Agency and Local Councils have invested heavily in the main agrochemical giants, such...

Some just published research in the journal Science completely demolishes claims that the impact of pesticides is declining and that GM crops are contributing...

Bayer-Monsanto have announced that they will not be asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a $20.6 million verdict awarded to former school groundskeeper,...

Green MEPs Benoît Biteau and Martin Häusling have released a new report stating that new GM technology won’t solve the problems of industrial agriculture...

A scientific study published last week concludes that Florida manatees are chronically exposed to glyphosate because of application of the herbicide to...

The toxic pesticide chlordecone was used on banana plantations in the French West Indies until 1993 but continued to pollute the waters surrounding the...