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Fossil fuel-derived pesticides are a significant but overlooked source of greenhouse gases, warn campaigners. Use of pesticides, which includes insecticides, herbicides and fungicides, increased by 16.7% across the world between 2005 and 2020, according to Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK). Source: Danny...

New York Attorney General Letitia James last week announced a settlement with Bayer CropScience LP (Bayer) and Monsanto Company (Monsanto) for allegedly...

Genetically modified Golden Rice and Bt eggplant will remain off the market in the Philippines after the country’s Supreme Court (SC) issued a writ...

An investigation by scientists at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the University of Rosario (UNR), Argentina has found that younger people in villages...

University of Texas at Dallas bioengineers have developed sensors that monitor multiple soil parameters, including total soil carbon, to provide farmers...

PAN Europe released a new report Thursday in collaboration with the European Greens, which shows that much safer non-chemical alternatives exist for all...

The Center for Biological Diversity and Greenpeace México have strongly condemned the United States’ heavy-handed intervention into Mexico’s decision...

U.S. Environmental and public health groups filed a legal challenge seeking to close the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (DPR) loophole...

In a major turn-around, the US company AquaBounty says it will stop producing its controversial genetically modified Atlantic salmon in Prince Edward...

Bees are likely to be at high risk from exposure to glyphosate, the most widely used weedkiller in the world, via contaminated wildflower nectar and pollen...