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In 2017, two United Nations experts called for a treaty to strictly regulate dangerous pesticides, which they said were a “global human rights concern”, citing scientific research showing pesticides can cause cancers, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s and other health problems, the Guardian reported...

GM wheat has taken a step towards being grown in the United States. And although there are no known investigations into whether it is safe to eat, in Argentina...

Pesticides have long been established as potentially health damaging, with some of them linked to cancer. In a populational US-wide study that considered...

In what is being called a significant victory for Mexico, Monsanto has withdrawn its legal challenge against the 2020 presidential decree aimed at banning...

A recently published study in Nature Genetics shows that the use of CRISPR/Cas ‘gene scissors’ causes unintended genetic changes that are different...

The campaign of the AGROLINK Association to ban glyphosate-based herbicides in Bulgaria, started 7 years ago, has ended successfully. The use of glyphosate...

Nine organizations that represent farmworkers, public health officials, scientists, and consumers recently demanded that the Environmental Protection Agency...

More than 55% of sperm samples from a French infertility clinic contained high levels of glyphosate, the world’s most common weedkiller, raising further...

On 19 April, the Philippine Supreme Court issued a cease-and-desist order on the commercial propagation of genetically modified (GM) Golden Rice and GM...

Pesticide-maker Bayer has asked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to re-approve the dangerous pesticide dicamba for use on genetically engineered...