Bayer-Monsanto merger faces delay as European regulators hone in on antitrust concerns, impact on farmers

Bayer-Monsanto merger faces delay as European regulators hone in on antitrust concerns, impact on farmers

Jacob Bunge, Natalia Drozdiak | 
Bayer AG’s takeover of Monsanto Co. faces deeper scrutiny from European antitrust regulators who say they have “serious doubts” about ...
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Conservation biology, ideology and the dangers of censorship

Keith Kloor | 
If conservation science is in service to an agenda, then it seems inevitable that research would at times be viewed ...
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Can ‘carbon farming’ sustainably reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

Laura Sayre | 
From the perspective of global climate change, soils are a major compartment within the planetary carbon cycle, the second-largest pool ...
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Podcast: Can the US learn from Canada’s ‘product-based’ GMO regulatory system?

Robert Potter | 
Biotech legal expert Robert Potter: How GMOs are regulated differently in the US and Canada ...
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Viewpoint: Democrats’ GMO labeling push is an embarrassment to pro-science progressives

Michael Rosch | 
A group of House Democrats, who called the proposed federal GMO labeling standards 'weak' and 'confusing,' are being urged not ...
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GMO clover that could improve livestock digestion in field tests

Mateusz Perkowski | 
Forage Genetics, which is best known for alfalfa that’s genetically modified to withstand glyphosate herbicides, began field testing the transgenic ...
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10 unique GMO products and benefits, and more on the way

Carol Curchoe | 
[Editor's note: Carol Lynn Curchoe is a scientist, teacher, consultant, advisor, and author.] [GMOs] have been used to benefit human ...
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Viewpoint: Netflix promotes anti-GMO films, suppresses legitimate science

Hank Campbell | 
Netflix has declined to carry the agriculture documentary called "Food Evolution", for reasons they refused to specify. ... Is the ...
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How GM seeds can ‘push’ photosynthesis to improve yields, battle impact of climate change

Katherine Bourzac | 
To feed a growing population, the United Nations projects, worldwide agricultural yields must increase by 50 percent between now and ...
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Could we control bee-killing Varroa mites by exploiting their genetic vulnerabilities?

Seemingly indestructible Varroa mites have decimated honeybee populations and are a primary cause of colony collapse disorder, or CCD. Michigan ...
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Viewpoint: Nutritionally-enhanced Golden Rice will not solve Philippines’ malnutrition problem

Leo Fuentes Jr. | 
According to the presentation by one of its proponents Dr. Roel Suralta from the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice), Golden ...
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Viewpoint: Trump administration’s embrace of GMOs lets down American farmers

Doug Gurian-Sherman | 
The [Trump] Administration claims that GMOs should be accepted on scientific grounds. And it says that its motivation for this ...
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Do GMOs reduce biodiversity?

Heather Landry | 
[Editor's note: Heather Landry is a Ph.D. candidate in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at Harvard University.] Although there is ...
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Can crop biotechnology boost food security in Nigeria?

Abdallah el-Kurebe | 
Since his assumption of office in May 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari has repeated said that the nation’s economy must be ...
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Viewpoint: Netflix movie Okja stokes unwarranted GMO fears, promotes anti-science worldview

Michael Rosch | 
The film about a fictitious evil corporation called "Mirando" that genetically engineers dangerous "superpigs" for food encapsulates all of the ...
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Recent increase in honeybee population does not necessarily mean health stress crisis over

Breann Schossow | 
Honeybee colonies -- specifically for operations with five or more colonies in the U.S. -- were up in April 2017 ...
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Do organic and conventional farmers use similar amounts of pesticides?

Jessica Shade | 
[Editor’s note: This opinion column was written by Jessica Shade, Director of Science Programs for The Organic Center. It was ...
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Lab study shows ‘no impact’ of thiamethoxam neonicotinoid pesticide exposure on mature bumblebees

Dara Stanley, Nigel Raine | 
In this experiment, we chronically exposed whole mature bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) colonies to field-realistic levels of the neonicotinoid thiamethoxam (2.4ppb ...
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Why Scotts Miracle-Gro decided to phase out neonicotinoid insecticides

Tiffany Stecker | 
Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. made an unusual move last year when the company announced it would remove a class of insecticides ...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson on why we need GMOs

Max Bonem | 
When it comes to food ... there is one topic that Tyson is constantly addressing: GMOs. Most recently, he discussed genetically modified ...
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Golden Rice 2.0? New GM variety increases iron, zinc and vitamin A levels to combat malnutrition

Peter Rüegg | 
ETH researchers have developed a new rice variety that not only has increased levels of the micronutrients iron and zinc ...
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Republicans and Democrats agree: Modern agriculture is sustainable

Mace Thornton | 
[Editor's note: Mace Thornton is executive director of communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation.] A recent Morning Consult poll ...
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Canadian celebrity chef Michael Smith: Debate over GMOs ‘disingenuous first world problems’

Nicole Williams | 
Celebrity chef Michael Smith came out in support of genetically-modified food at a consultation about Canada's Food Policy. ... "This ...
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Viewpoint: Glyphosate herbicide a safe method for Pakistani farmers to fend off weeds, boost yields

Ahmer Hassan | 
It is estimated that on an average 20-30 % crop losses are attributable to weed infestation and growth in Pakistan ...
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Environmentalist Stewart Brand: Opposing GMOs ‘the biggest mistake the environmental movement has ever made’

Jon Turney | 
If we are serious about curbing climate change, what would actually help? More people in cities, lots of nuclear power ...
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Video: How are GMO plants made?

Molly Edwards | 
How are genetically modified organisms (GMOs) made? Are they safe to eat? Molly heads to the Van Eck Lab at ...
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Banana wilt, GMOs and Food Evolution: Behind the scenes in Uganda profiling desperate plight of poor farmers

Isaac Ongu | 
Despite claims by anti-GMO activists who say crop biotechnology mostly benefits big corporations, African farmers and poor people are the ...
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