Looks like Monsanto really wants farmers to use XtendiMax. The agribusiness giant is offering a cash incentive to farmers to apply a...
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Seeds of disaster: Burkina Faso’s troubles with Monsanto’s GM cotton
Bobo-Dioulasso — In 2000, farmers in Burkina Faso, Africa’s top cotton grower, were desperate. Their cotton fetched top prices because...
Greens/EFA Group Set to Refer Glyphosate Licence Renewal to European Court of Justice
The Greens/EFA group will try to build a majority in the European Parliament to refer the European Commission’s decision to...
Environmentalists say they’ll try to sue German, EU authorities over glyphosate
Environmentalist groups said on Monday that Germany and the European Union had broken the rules when assessing the safety of...
French Court Temporarily Bans Two Pesticides Over Possible Threat to Bees
Bees are behind a French court ruling that suspended the license for two pesticides made by Dow Chemical. Friday’s preliminary ruling by an...
GMO Apples Arriving on U.S. Shelves for First Time
The first commercial harvest of Arctic apples—genetically modified (GMO) apples that don’t brown when exposed to air—will arrive in 400 Midwestern...
Monsanto says Mexico revokes permit to market GMO soy in seven states
Monsanto Co said on Thursday that Mexico’s agriculture sanitation authority SENASICA had revoked its permit to commercialize genetically modified soy...
The Sun also rises: Genes and rethinking your sunscreen choices
While sunny summer weather usually ushers in better moods with dreams of vacations and more time outdoors, it also brings...
Effort to ban some sunscreen chemicals advances
WAILUKU — Sunscreen containing certain chemicals could be banned in Maui County after a bill to eliminate the potentially harmful...
Keepers warn of ‘bee-mageddon’ after France authorises controversial insecticide
French bee keepers are up in arms over the authorisation of an insecticide they warn could sound the death knell...