Their target remains GMOs—a range of agricultural products made with modern techniques of genetic engineering, from eggplant grown mostly in ...
Nearly every American was taught the same six steps that serve as a fundamental building block to scientific education: Make ...
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on [July 22], finding the agency must take a ...
A uniquely frightening time like this provides a great moment for us all to do what’s best for neighbors, employees, ...
Organic farming is not chemical free. Copper sulfate is a popular one. How does it work and how does it ...
EU countries .... expressed their preference for a way of regulating potentially bee-harming pesticides that has been contested by environmental ...
Plagued by stemborers, a type of crop parasitism, maize can launch a chemical defense that essentially calls in the cavalry ...
Bayer, BASF and Corteva Agriscience continue the fight to preserve postemergent dicamba use. The companies are contesting the results of ...
Bayer AG failed to persuade a California appeals court to overturn a verdict favoring a school groundskeeper who claimed its ...
Biotech giant Bayer is currently in the fight of its life against more than 100,000 lawsuits alleging its flagship weedkiller ...
July 20, 2020
Since litigation began a couple years ago, Roundup, a particular brand of glyphosate based pesticide, is now firmly established as ...
Always take chemical advice from EWG with a grain of (inorganic) salt ...
Under the new regulated cropping system, farmers in Telangana have grown cotton on 60 lakh acres, setting a new record ...
On June 3, 2020, a panel of three judges from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San ...
Farmers who grow biotech crops have earned an additional $225 billion and greatly reduced agriculture's contribution to climate change, according ...
Alhough coca crop size fell 9% in 2019 to the lowest level in six years, the capacity to produce cocaine ...
Eat them, poison them, and use scent to drive them to cannibalism - as a second wave of locusts threatens ...
July 13, 2020
The agriculture ministry, in a draft notification, has restricted the use of glyphosate only through Pest Control Operators (PCOs). “No ...
The EU has recently laid out a series of targets to dramatically reduce the amounts of chemicals used in European ...
July 9, 2020
[Editor's note: GMO crops were widely adopted by US farmers after their initial approval in 1996. According to a new ...
The new treatment effectively kills the bacterium causing the disease with a naturally occurring molecule found in wild citrus relatives ...
The plan concocted by Monsanto owner Bayer AG and a small group of lawyers was filed [in June] in U.S ...
July 8, 2020
[In June] Bayer agreed to pay as much as $10.9 billion to settle close to 100,000 U.S. lawsuits [alleging its ...
Previous field studies have reached no collective consensus on whether Bt corn, the most commonly planted transgenic crop worldwide, has ...
Conventional pesticide makers including Syngenta and Bayer AG have been under pressure in recent years over their products’ impact on ...
Chemical giant Bayer just settled roughly 95,000 lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer. Has the company given its anti-GMO ...
June 30, 2020
[Colored cotton plants] are the product of CSIRO plant breeders dedicated to producing better, sustainable natural fibers that will hopefully ...