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Aristolochic acids: Natural insecticides found in medicinal plants cause of mysterious kidney disease?

Alla Katsnelson | 
The plant, Aristolochia clematitis—more commonly known as birthwort—can surely be called beautiful, but within it lurks a poison. Over the ...
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EPA proposes herbicide tiafenacil as ‘low-risk’ alternative to control glyphosate-tolerant weeds

EPA proposes tiafenacil for pre-plant and pre-emergence burndown use in corn (all types except sweet corn), cotton, soybeans and wheat ...
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GMO herbicide-tolerant canola poses no hazard to human health, EU food safety officials find

Hanspeter Naegeli | 
Following the submission of application EFSA‐GMO‐RX‐002 .... from Monsanto Company, the Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms of EFSA (GMO) was ...
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Bayer appeals $265 million dicamba weedkiller verdict, alleging damage to Missouri peach farm exaggerated

Tom Polansek | 
Bayer AG sent a private investigator [in July] to evaluate the business of a U.S. peach grower who won a ...
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Farmworkers’ group, nine states urge federal court to ban widely used insecticide chlorpyrifos

Matthew Renda | 
Farmworker advocates squared off with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency before a remote Ninth Circuit panel [July 28], arguing the ...
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Sustainable farming advances: Global movement to ban pesticides and GMOs spur next-generation biotech pest controls

Cameron English | 
Their target remains GMOs—a range of agricultural products made with modern techniques of genetic engineering, from eggplant grown mostly in ...
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EPA ordered to review impact of glyphosate-based herbicides on monarch butterflies—but federal court blocks ban

Matthew Renda | 
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on [July 22], finding the agency must take a ...
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Bayer, BASF, Corteva urge federal court to review dicamba weedkiller ban, calling it ‘unconstitutional’

Emily Unglesbee | 
Bayer, BASF and Corteva Agriscience continue the fight to preserve postemergent dicamba use. The companies are contesting the results of ...
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Why grow GMOs? Over 23 years, biotech crops boosted farm income $225 billion, cut pesticide use and slashed carbon emissions

Cameron English, Graham Brookes | 
Farmers who grow biotech crops have earned an additional $225 billion and greatly reduced agriculture's contribution to climate change, according ...
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‘Eat them, poison them, drive them to cannibalism’: Kenyan scientists explore creative solutions to East Africa locust swarms

Ayenat Mersie | 
Eat them, poison them, and use scent to drive them to cannibalism - as a second wave of locusts threatens ...
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Viewpoint: Organic food represents a ‘reactionary’ ideology that doesn’t support health or sustainable farming⁠—and should not be subsidized

Laurent Pahpy | 
The health and environmental benefits claimed by organic agriculture are based on shaky scientific foundations ...
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Natural pesticide claimed as replacement for antibiotics as treatment for citrus greening disease decimating US citrus industry

Jules Bernstein | 
The new treatment effectively kills the bacterium causing the disease with a naturally occurring molecule found in wild citrus relatives ...
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Consumer pesticide fears spur chemical giant Syngenta to develop more eco-friendly farm technologies

Agnieszka De Sousa, Eric Roston | 
Conventional pesticide makers including Syngenta and Bayer AG have been under pressure in recent years over their products’ impact on ...
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Bayer, BASF, Corteva expected to fight court-imposed ban on dicamba weedkillers

Dan Nosowitz | 
Dicamba has been the subject of considerable outrage since the release of dicamba-resistant seeds in 2016; the herbicide has a ...
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Federal court backs EPA order allowing farmers to use banned dicamba weedkillers until July 31

Jacqui Fatka | 
EPA has defended its decision to allow farmers to continue to use three vacated dicamba herbicides -- XtendiMax, FeXapan and ...
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Court that revoked EPA dicamba weedkiller approval could also ban Enlist Duo herbicide

Emily Unglesbee | 
The agricultural industry was rocked by a federal appeals court ruling that vacated the registrations of three dicamba herbicides [in ...
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EPA green lights limited use of just-banned dicamba weedkillers until July 31

This notice announces the Agency's [EPA's] issuance of a final cancellation order for three pesticide products (Xtendimax with Vaporgrip Technology, ...
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Insect-resistant Bt cotton failed in India, claims study. Geneticist says anti-GMO authors designed research to seed doubt about crop biotech

Deepak Pental | 
Farmers around the world have cultivated genetically engineered (GE) crops for nearly thirty years. In that time, researchers have gathered ...
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Podcast: Pesticides prevent cancer. Growing drugs in GMO plants; battling diabetes with CRISPR

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Rapid advances in biotechnology could help prevent hundreds of thousands of diabetes deaths every year. Growing drugs in GMO plants ...
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Biotech rice cuts pesticide and energy use compared to non-GMO counterpart, study finds

Salman Dastan | 
The release of environmental emissions, which partly emanates from the application of chemical inputs, is a major global concern. Planting ...
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Plant ‘probiotics’: Feeding crops good bacteria may prevent pest damage without chemicals

Jonathan Chadwick | 
Scientists have developed plant ‘probiotics’ that help fight disease without the use of expensive pesticides. UK researchers say beneficial bacteria ...
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India battles locust infestation that could destroy enough food to feed 35,000 people—every day

Himanshu Shekhar Mishra | 
Massive swarms of desert locusts are destroying crops across western and central India, spearing into Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab ...
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France reinstates ban on US cherry imports over pesticide safety fears

Xavier Audran | 
On April 8, 2020 France published its fifth emergency decree banning fresh cherry imports from countries where the use of ...
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Viewpoint: Greenpeace lobbies to ban fungicides that kill cancer-causing mycotoxins

Bill Wirtz | 
A vast network of organizations, including known players such as Greenpeace, are throwing a myriad of unscientific publications at the ...
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Viewpoint: California pesticide regulation battle highlights influence of politically connected activist groups

Brad Hooker | 
[California] Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling for strong regulatory enforcement to “protect children from pesticide exposure” in a new directive ...
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EU Food Safety Authority defends pesticide risk studies activists call ‘unfit for purpose’

Natasha Foote | 
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published the results of its two pilot assessments on the risks posed to ...
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Viewpoint: Modern ‘post-truth’ politics ignores sustainability benefits of GMOs and pesticides

Fred Roeder | 
As Africa shows, locust plagues can be devastating for food security, and climate science enables us to detect that certain ...
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