Agriculture Spotlight

The widely used weedkiller glyphosate is available in every garden store, but now there are fears it can cause cancer ...

Along with unsubstantiated claims of better nutrition and safety, supporters of organic farming often cite its lower carbon footprint as ...

Developments in genetic coding techniques open the doorway to crops that produce higher yields or have positive characteristics, such as ...

[N]on-GMO labels do more than placate people concerned about scientists secretly tinkering with their food. They might persuade people to make ...

On October 23, Chinese scientists published a paper heralding a truly remarkable feat: Using the genome-editing technique CRISPR, they created 12 healthy ...

[Editor's note: The following is from a study published in the open-access mega-journal PLOS ONE.] Neonicotinoid insecticides can cause a ...

Illegal spraying of a volatile weedkiller may be the cause of unprecedented damage to crops earlier this year, especially for ...

India has frozen requests to commercially release a locally developed genetically modified mustard, an environment ministry document released on Tuesday [October ...

To prove that a new-gene editing technology could be used to alter the cassava plant, scientists in the St. Louis ...

As farmers battle in their above-ground war on weeds, they may inadvertently create underground casualties – unintentionally attacking the beneficial ...

EU countries failed on Wednesday [October 25] to vote on a license extension for weedkiller glyphosate, delaying again a decision on ...

Researchers in the United States say they have discovered how to genetically engineer corn to produce a kind of amino acid usually ...

The National Milk Producers Federation launched a “peel back the label” campaign this summer, aimed squarely at a growing list ...

A former agricultural reporter at Reuters, Gillam now presents herself as "the Rachel Carson of the GMO debate." Belgian-based risk ...

The European Commission will seek to extend the license of glyphosate — the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide — for between five ...

Glyphosate has been in the headlines for two weeks. Here's a background interview with the GLP's executive director explaining the ...

Levels of the herbicide Roundup in human urine have increased dramatically among California residents in the past two decades, a ...

Health Canada will not be further regulating the use of dicamba herbicide sprayed on growing crops, as has happened in ...

Consumers are confused between foods labeled as “organic” and “non-genetically modified,” according to a new study led by a University ...

Scientists have said the first batch of locally grown genetically modified potatoes will be on sale in Ugandan markets in ...

As the total global population continues to rise and economic growth drives a transition towards more resource-intensive diets, a growing ...

Where high-stakes issues involve powerful beliefs, financial reward and opportunities for advancement, neither individuals nor agencies can be assumed to ...

A major agribusiness company sued Arkansas regulators ... for banning its version of an herbicide that's drawn complaints from farmers across several ...

Benson Hill Biosystems, an agricultural technology company, reports the launch of Edit, which is powered by CropOS™, a computational platform ...

Climate change could spell disaster for coffee, a crop that requires specific temperatures to flourish and that is highly sensitive ...

The government plans to incentivise farmers to produce more genetically modified (GM) brinjal [eggplant].... [Eggplant, also known as brinjal and ...

Researchers from Oxford University have taken an important step in a long-term project aimed at improving photosynthesis in rice. In ...