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Western corn rootworm can destroy cornfields — and profits — but populations of the “billion-dollar bug” have stopped responding to insecticides as well as the genetically modified (GM) corn hybrids designed to resist insect attacks, according to the University of Illinois. However, there may be hope....

The Greens/EFA group will try to build a majority in the European Parliament to refer the European Commission’s decision to renew the licence for glyphosate...

Over 1,200 emails released under open records requests reveal that the US military is now the top funder and influencer behind a controversial genetic...

French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said he would take all measures necessary to ensure that weed-killer glyphosate is banned in France as soon...

A French court suspended on Friday the license for two pesticides made by Dow Chemical, citing uncertainty over environmental risks including their effects...

Monsanto Co said last Thursday that Mexico’s agriculture sanitation authority SENASICA had revoked its permit to commercialize genetically modified soy...

A qualified majority of EU member states has voted in favour of the Commission’s proposal for the renewal of the approval of glyphosate for five...

A recent update of a very large study of diseases of pesticide applicators identified a possible association between glyphosate use and acute myeloid leukemia...

Research from the the University of Saskatchewan (U of S) in Canada has linked the use of neonicotinoid insecticides to serious health issues in songbirds,...

The Great Glyphosate Rebellion continued Thursday in the European Union, as EU member states refused to back the 5-year license renewal for glyphosate,...