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French town’s failed pesticide ban reignites national campaign against Bayer’s Roundup weed killer

Eddy Wax | 
Daniel Cueff’s failed crusade to ban pesticides in his tiny Breton village lays bare the deep political contradictions at the ...
Viewpoint: Eat 1,500 strawberries in one sitting—and pesticides still won't harm you

Viewpoint: Eat 1,500 strawberries in one sitting—and pesticides still won’t harm you

Julie Gunlock | 
Can you identify which of the following is NOT true about pesticides? A: Pesticides are extremely dangerous to humans. B: ...
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Infographic: GMO crops ‘wreck’ the environment, human health? Latest evidence says otherwise

"GMOs are not saving farmers money, they're not producing higher yields, and perhaps most significantly they're wrecking the environment and ...
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Neonicotinoid insecticide exposure could harm ground-nesting bees, study suggests

In a first-ever study investigating the risk of neonicotinoid insecticides to ground-nesting bees, University of Guelph researchers have discovered at ...
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EU urges member states to ban insecticide chlorpyrifos, citing potential threat to children’s health

Kayla Sharpe | 
The European Commission will put forward a proposal to EU countries not to renew the license for the pesticide chlorpyrifos ...
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French President Emmanuel Macron challenges legality of town’s glyphosate weed killer ban

Arthur Neslen, Eddy Wax, Eline Schaart | 
French President Emmanuel Macron told a mayor from Brittany who ordered a ban on the use of pesticides near his ...
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‘Severe blow’ to Irish agriculture: Regulators reject farmers’ request to use neonicotinoid insecticides

Siobhan Walsh | 
The failure to grant a derogation for the use of Redigo Deter seed dressing – which contains the neonicotinoid clothianidin ...
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Battle over cancer warning label, glyphosate ban could complicate Roundup lawsuit settlement

Tina Bellon | 
Bayer AG is in mediation to potentially settle thousands of U.S. lawsuits claiming that the company’s Roundup weed killer causes ...
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Off-patent GMO Bt corn could slash seed costs for farmers, boost crop yields

Chris Bennett | 
Extremely low-cost and high-yield Bt corn? Off-patent, generic Bt corn is rapidly approaching farmland and the price differential might cause ...
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Gene-silencing biopesticide targets harmful insects without threatening pollinators

Sean Barton | 
A natural, sustainable alternative to pesticides that targets specific pests, without harming beneficial pollinators such as honeybees, is being developed ...
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20 French mayors ban glyphosate, spurring new legal battle over Bayer’s controversial weed killer

Forrest Crellin, Pierre-Henri Allain | 
Some 20 French mayors have banned glyphosate from their municipalities, defying the government, which is now taking legal action to ...
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Viewpoint: Produce is sugary, GMO ‘poison’? Scientific American embraces long-debunked food safety tropes

Alex Berezow | 
The lies and distortions start early in this appalling Scientific American article -- and they keep going to the end ...
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Bayer sells animal health division for $7.6 billion, denies deal prompted by glyphosate-cancer lawsuits

Eddy Wax | 
Agriculture and pharmaceutical giant Bayer [August 20] agreed [to] a $7.6 billion deal to sell its animal health business to ...
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Kenya will approve biotech crops on case-by-case basis, three months after proposing to lift GMO ban

Wainaina Wambu | 
Kenyans are still waiting on the Government’s decision as to whether it will lift the ban on Genetically Modified Organisms ...
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UK farmers struggle to control ‘largely symptomless’ virus without neonicotinoid insecticides

Lucinda Dann | 
A mild autumn and winter combined with a build-up in aphid numbers since the loss of neonicotinoid seed treatments has ...
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Judge tosses glyphosate-in-Cheerios lawsuit for no evidence of ‘injury’

The active ingredient in popular weed killers, glyphosate, has gotten bad press lately .... Some advocacy groups are claiming that ...
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Viewpoint: EPA has science on its side in glyphosate-cancer label battle with California

Josh Bloom | 
By any measure, California’s Proposition 65 is an exercise in madness. The law, which is officially titled “The Safe Drinking Water ...
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Strict evidence standards in upcoming glyphosate-cancer trials could yield science-based verdicts, legal analyst says

John Severance | 
Three trials in California against Bayer have sided with plaintiffs involving allegations that the glyphosate in the herbicide Roundup causes ...
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Microorganisms could help rid soil of lingering pesticides

Narendra Kumar | 
Pesticides have been widely used after the Second World War in management of weeds, diseases and pests of plants. Most ...
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California advances ban on insecticide chlorpyrifos, claims ‘politics’ prevent EPA from acting

Geoffrey Mohan | 
California regulators on [August 14] took formal legal steps to ban a widely used pesticide that had been rescued from ...
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Viewpoint: Biologist Tyrone Hayes, author of suspect atrazine weed killer study, nominated for EPA’s Scientific Advisory Panel

Hank Campbell | 
Comments opened on the recent EPA nominations to serve on the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) .... The name at number ...
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India won’t ban glyphosate to stop illegal planting of herbicide-tolerant GMO crops

The government is unlikely to put a ban on the controversial herbicide glyphosate as there is no proven record to ...
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Podcast: Food 5.0—GMOs, robots and the future of farming with agronomist Robert Saik

Cameron English, Robert Saik | 
The high efficiency of modern agriculture has a downside: most consumers don't know the first thing about farming ...
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Acute exposure to controversial insecticide sulfoxaflor doesn’t impact bee learning, study shows

Harry Siviter​​ | 
Systemic insecticides such as neonicotinoids and sulfoximines can be present in the nectar and pollen of treated crops, through which ...
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Glyphosate label war escalates: Spurning EPA objections, California keeps cancer Prop. 65 warning on herbicide

Emily Dooley | 
California has no plans to change its rule that certain products containing the herbicide glyphosate require warnings to consumers that ...
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Roundup on trial: Glyphosate-cancer settlement talks progress, but report of an $8 billion payout is ‘pure fiction’

Jef Feeley, Joel Rosenblatt, Tim Loh | 
Bayer AG is proposing to pay as much as $8 billion to settle more than 18,000 U.S. lawsuits alleging its ...
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