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Monarch population rebounds as NRDC sues EPA for not stopping ‘Armageddon’–Are GMOs the problem?
While monarch butterfly overwintering numbers rose this year, the overall trend remains down. But the simplistic narrative blaming GMOs for ...
Anti-GMO activists ‘harass’ Connecticut nature center months after Monsanto grant funds returned
A controversy that swirled last year when the Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center announced a grant from chemical giant Monsanto has ...
Old friends open up about rift caused by GM vs. organic court battle
It started in the West Australian wheat belt with tense words between neighbours at a community working bee. It ended ...
Neonics ‘not harmful’ to bees but German court rules activist organizations can claim otherwise
A judge has ruled that the German branch of Friends of Earth (BUND) has a right to voice its concerns over ...
Leading entomologist Marla Spivak: ‘We can have both pesticides and pollinators’
Marla Spivak, who holds a McKnight professorship in entomology at the University of Minnesota and directs the Bee Lab there, ...
Viewpoint: The mischief of ‘regrettable substitutions’
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. "Regrettable substitutions" occur when, ...
Combination of stresses contributes to bee deaths
In a recent review paper for Science, a team of researchers argue that the combination of modern stresses facing bees ...
Monsanto said to offer ‘sustainable solutions’ to arrest decades long monarch butterfly decline
Monarch butterflies are in trouble. These popular insects, which have captured the public imagination with their several-thousand mile migrations, have ...
Allergic to all known chemicals?
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. When I was a ...
Are shrooms the new pesticide?
Scientists in Ireland have found that growing fungus inside barley helps the plants ward off disease. Brian Murphy, a botanist at Trinity ...
China’s rejection of GMO “contaminated” alfalfa–Biotech failure or global politics?
In 2014, China rejected imports of alfalfa from the US that contained trace amounts of GE material. Activists reacted with ...
Owen Paterson: ‘Anti-GMO stance of Green Blob, Greenpeace condemn poor to starvation, death
Former UK environment secretary goes on the attack against what he says are modern Luddites: Greenpeace and the ministers of ...
Fruit tree gene could prevent GM cross-pollination with other plants
Genetically modified crops have long drawn fire from environmentalists, who worry that there could be contamination of organic food or ...
Media should examine bee age, not neonics to understand disappearing bees
Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder has always interested me, because I’m interested in insect pathology – and this is probably the ...
Rep. DeFazio misleadingly links monarch butterfly decline solely to GMOs
Monarch butterflies are an unexpected victim of the widespread adoption of genetically modified crops, Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., said last ...
Bedbugs’ evolution is bad news for everyone, except scientists
In the closing sentence of “The Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin marvels at the process of evolution, observing how “from ...
How activists, sloppy reporters turned genetic firewall story into hysteria-gram on GMO dangers
In the hands of activists and sloppy reporters, breakthrough research on setting genetic 'kill switches' to prevent synthetic genes from ...
Call for action: It’s time to March Against the March Against Monsanto
March Against Monsanto has evolved into a cultural event symbolizing the most strident and scientifically questionable side of the anti-technology ...
Will benefits of nanopesticides outweigh costs?
Stacey Harper is doggedly researching tiny, human-made substances called nanoparticles. The scientist at Oregon State University in Corvallis hopes to be ...
Viewpoint: ‘The science of things that aren’t so’ should not drive public policy
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. The quality and reproducibility ...
Pests invade Europe after neonicotinoids ban, with no benefit to bee health
The neonics ban in Europe may be backfiring as farmers turn topesticides that had been phased out because of potentially ...
Cornucopia Institute: Organic farms industrializing–As sustainability benefits of GMO crops rise
According to key organic supporters, organic farming is no longer the idyllic image that the multi-billion dollar industry promotes. And ...
Herbicides aren’t sole culprit in Monarch butterfly decline
Monarch butterflies are vanishing. Over the last 20 years, fewer and fewer of them have been making the long journey down to ...
Insects provide valuable look into genetics of how societies are built
Eusocial insects are among the most successful living creatures on Earth. Found in terrestrial ecosystems across the globe (on every ...
Anti anti-GMO organic farmer’s 2015 plea: ‘Let’s end the war over food’
I can't really tell if it was the "packed with pesticides" or the "bashing mom bashes good" phrase that finally ...
Are we facing a ‘world without wild bees’?
The bee crisis story keeps morphing. At first, we faced global beemageddon with commercial honeybees at risk. With evidence dimming ...
Bee experts shred ‘Harvard’ neonics-Colony Collapse Disorder study, upbraid journalists for ‘activist science’
North America's most prominent bee experts challenge a well-publicized 'Harvard study' that blamed neonicotinoids for bee deaths and Colony Collapse ...
Beegate 3: Conflicts of interest dog European IUCN bee panel as nenonic ban devastates crops
Crops are failing in the first year of the neonicotinoid ban, anti-neonic scientists are tainted by conflicts of interest, the ...
