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EPA investigates illegal use of dicamba as it mulls herbicide’s re-approval

Stephen Steed | 
Despite being banned for in-crop use this summer in Arkansas, dicamba is a suspect in damage to thousands of acres ...
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Even as managed honeybee colonies hit record numbers, another threat to their health is identified: Mystery viruses

Andrew Porterfield | 
The quest to figure out what's behind honeybee deaths has become as much a political question as a scientific one. Recent ...
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Chemical giant Bayer challenging Europe’s neonicotinoids ban

Breifne O'Brien | 
Bayer will appeal...the recent ruling of the General Court of the European Union (EU) to ban neonicotinoids. [T]he German multinational pharmaceutical company ...
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Monsanto, expert witness spar over validity of IARC’s glyphosate-cancer finding

Dorothy Atkins | 
An agricultural economist refuted Monsanto's assertion that the International Agency for Research on Cancer "cherry picked" studies to conclude that Monsanto's ...
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CRISPR: How gene editing could provide clean water, cut pesticide use and protect the environment

Jenna Gallegos | 
CRISPR has been making headlines for its potential to treat or prevent diseases. But medicine isn’t the only science where ...
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Viewpoint: Activists fret about neonics, but viruses are the real threat to bees

While environmentalists raise millions of dollars insisting they will get targeted pesticides (e.g. neonicotinoids) banned to save bees that aren't ...
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Questioning EU neonics ban: Pesticides are ‘not a curse but a blessing’

Klaus Schlüter | 
Plant protection products and green genetic engineering [tools] are not a curse but a blessing, says Dr. Klaus Schlüter, a ...
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Monsanto defends its internal testing in Roundup cancer trial

Helen Christophi | 
A Monsanto scientist denied on [July 24th] that the company based its assertions that its Roundup weed killer doesn’t cause ...
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Several European Union nations rebuked over efforts to sidestep neonicotinoid ban

Simon Marks | 
At least two EU countries continue to use emergency exemptions to sidestep a ban on pesticides that scientists believe harm ...
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Are farmers struggling to control weeds in the face of dicamba herbicide restrictions?

Amy Bickel | 
If there is one thorn in the side of Missouri farmer Tommy Riley, it’s pigweed. ...Riley told members of the ...
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Viewpoint: Why the French media still defend Séralini’s discredited GMO rat tumor study

André Heitz | 
In recent months, the [French] media has had little interest in reporting the results of three large-scale studies that reviewed and confirmed the safety ...
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Video: Cancer patient testifies against Monsanto in Roundup weed killer trial

Lyanne Melendez | 
It is the first time St. Louis-based Monsanto Company has had to defend one of its products, Roundup, in front ...
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Soybean farmer sues dicamba manufacturers, seeks injunction on sale of popular herbicide

A northeast Nebraska farmer has sued herbicide manufacturers, saying his neighbors’ use of the company products damaged his soybean crop ...
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Kazakhstan ‘goes organic’ to compete in $90 billion non-GMO food market

Agnieszka De Sousa | 
Kazakhstan is tapping growing consumer demand for organic crops to help it better compete in the food-export market. The country ...
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Roundup trial: Monsanto lawyers grill expert witness for omitting key details around alleged glyphosate-cancer link

Helen Christophi | 
Lawyers for Monsanto attempted on [July 20th] to undermine a Chicago oncologist’s opinion that its Roundup weed killer caused a ...
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As fears of ‘rogue’ GMO wheat ease, Japan lifts ban on Canadian imports

Tyler Dawson | 
One day [in] July [2017], a contractor noticed a few stalks of wheat growing by the side of an access ...
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Amid activist claims Germany colluded with Big Ag to soften glyphosate regulations, Europe may switch evaluation responsibility to France

Simon Marks | 
Monsanto’s quest to keep its controversial weedkiller Roundup on the European market faces another challenge. The European Commission is pushing for ...
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Despite anti-GMO ‘whispering,’ Bangladesh says ‘science-based information’ will guide its biotech policy

Krisy Gashler | 
Bt eggplant, or brinjal as it’s known in Bangladesh, is the first genetically engineered food crop to be successfully introduced ...
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Viewpoint: There’s no one ‘butterfly-killing bogeyman’ to blame for declining monarch populations

Justin Cremer | 
“When you look at the 25-year trend, it seems quite dire,” [Anurag] Agrawal, a Cornell University professor of ecology and ...
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Could commercial herbicides made from fungi bridge sustainability gap between organic and conventional agriculture?

Nature is not just out to kill us, it is out to kill itself, in the interest of surviving over ...
Sri Lankan government lifts glyphosate ban to aid tea growers 'plagued' by weeds, slumping production

Sri Lankan government lifts glyphosate ban to aid tea growers ‘plagued’ by weeds, slumping production

Sandun Jayawardana | 
The [Sri Lankan] government has lifted [a two-year] ban on glyphosate for all crops throughout the country. ... The Government ...
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Viewpoint: German farmers say neonicotinoid ban throws them back into ‘plant protection stone age,’ forces use of ‘dangerous’ pesticides

Gunther Willinger | 
With the ban on the three most effective insecticides [Imidacloprid, Clothianidin and Thiamethoxam] for the protection of beet seeds, beet ...
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Increasing cases of crop injury could threaten future use of effective herbicide dicamba

Rebecca Thiele | 
Half way through the year, complaints about the weed killer dicamba are increasing. This could mean efforts to stop the ...
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Viewpoint: Neonics don’t threaten bees, ban could raise food prices, increase toxic insecticide use

Julie Murphree | 
Neonicotinoid insecticides aren’t the problem for bees that activists have made them out to be. In fact, years of monitoring ...
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Viewpoint: Organic industry allies ignore expert witness’s hypocrisy in Roundup weed killer trial

Hank Campbell | 
Chris Portier, Ph.D., an activist statistician who pushed to get the common herbicide ingredient glyphosate listed as a "hazard" for ...
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Sustainable rewards worth the risks? India cracks down on farmers growing unapproved glyphosate-tolerant cotton

Sayantan Bera | 
A high-level expert panel set up by the Indian Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has found that nearly 15% [of the ...
'Farmbots': Precision farming with agricultural robots could boost crop yields, cut chemical use

‘Farmbots’: Precision farming with agricultural robots could boost crop yields, cut chemical use

Bethan Grylls | 
According to both the Government and farmers, the future of farming is one in which small robots will have a ...
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