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The world’s most widely used weedkiller glyphosate may also be indirectly killing bees. New research from The University of Texas at Austin shows that honey bees exposed to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, lose some of the beneficial bacteria in their guts and are more susceptible to infection...

The European pesticide regulation and its implementation need to be improved, says a draft report from a committee of the European Parliament, published...

On the heels on the European Court of Justice’s ruling requiring organisms developed using new genetic engineering techniques to undergo GMO risk assessments,...

France took a radical step towards protecting its dwindling bee population last Saturday by becoming the first country in Europe to ban five pesticides...

A peer-reviewed article on GMO Bt brinjal in Bangladesh is claimed to prove its success. Claire Robinson from GMWatch looks at the evidence. Source: gmwatch.org In...

A Brazilian Judge has overturned the legal suspension of the use of products containing glyphosate, the world’s most used herbicide. Judge Kássio...

The Government of St Vincent and the Grenadines has placed an immediate suspension on the importation of herbicides that contain the active ingredient...

A study of more than 1 million pregnancies in Finland reports that elevated levels of a metabolite of the banned insecticide DDT in the blood of pregnant...

Professor Channa Sudath Jayasumana from Rajarata University announced earlier this week that a group of farmer organizations, researchers, patients and...

The California Supreme Court refused Wednesday to hear a challenge to a key provision of the state’s landmark chemical consumer-disclosure law, Proposition...