South Korean Court Says Dow, Monsanto Owe Korean Agent Orange Victims
South Korea’s highest court on Friday upheld a ruling ordering two US Agent Orange makers to compensate 39 Vietnam War veterans, while sending another decision back to a lower court...
View ArticleNew Study Shows Insecticide Alters Honeybee Genes
New research shows that exposure to a certain kind of insecticide alters the genetic makeup of honeybees. The US has denied the link between insecticides and honeybee deaths, while the European...
View ArticleEU Bans Yet Another Pesticide Harmful to Bees
The European Union on Tuesday restricted the use of the insecticide Fipronil, the latest move to protect honey bees after a May ban on three other insecticides. The ban on...
View ArticleMonsanto Pays Farmers to Use Competitors’ Pesticides
Talk about irony. Monsanto, the huge corporation that pushed farmers to plant its genetically modified (GMO) seeds—which need to be used in conjunction with the company’s Roundup pesticide—is now...
View ArticleEPA to Increase Allowable Glyphosate in U.S. Food Crops by up to 100,000x
With names like the Environmental Protection Agency or the Food and Drug Administration, it would be nice to think these regulatory agencies had our best interests in mind—that they existed...
View ArticleHoney Bees in Trouble? Blame Farm Chemicals, Study Says
Honey bees rented to out pollinate crops from apples to watermelons return to their hives with pollen containing an array of agricultural chemicals that make the insects more vulnerable to...
View ArticlePesticide Drift Killing Crops and Making Hoosiers Sick
Brett Middlesworth looks over the land his family farms near Marion. On one side, a work crew is pouring concrete for a new grain bin. On his other side is...
View ArticleFarmers: Monsanto’s GMO Crop Could Create Pesticide Disaster
As Red Gold Incorporated Director of Agriculture Steve Smith watches cans of tomato sauce whip down the line at the company’s processing plant in Orestes, he says it is his job to...
View ArticleHabitat Loss and Pesticides Causing Decline in Europe’s Butterflies
Europe’s grassland butterfly population has plummeted in the past two decades, new research published on Tuesday shows, with a near halving in the numbers of key species since 1990. The...
View ArticleBee-Killing Pesticides Could Also Harm Butterflies, Mice and Birds, Study Claims
Seeds treated with the ‘neonicotinoid’ pesticides could kill birds or mice, a study in the Journal of Applied Ecology from the British Ecological Society has suggested. Professor Dave Goulson, the...
View ArticleMonsanto’s GMO Crops Already Planted in North Dakota
Early in July, Monsanto rolled out the red carpet for farm media in North Dakota, promoting its new, yet highly controversial, herbicide-resistant genetically engineered (GE) seeds. Touted at an...
View ArticleHome Gardeners’ New Plants Could Be Killing Off Bees
An environmental group said Wednesday that many home gardeners may be unknowingly hurting the bee population, as the insects’ numbers continue to decline. Bees pollinate many fruits and vegetables,...
View Article800 Million Pounds of Pesticides Can’t be Washed Off, are Bred into our Food...
We already know that farmers and farm workers who use conventional methods of planting are exposed to egregious amounts of pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. They suffer from all kinds of...
View ArticleSyngenta, Bayer Challenge EU Pesticide Ban
Companies say the Commission took its decision based on an “inaccurate and incomplete assessment”. Syngenta, the Swiss agrochemical company, is taking the European Commission to court over its decision...
View ArticleFarm Kills Millions of Bees with Illegal Pesticide Spraying, Gets Slap on Wrist
A huge Florida citrus farm is being fined by state officials for poisoning millions of honeybees to death — but it’s not being fined very much. Ben Hill Griffin Inc.,...
View ArticleWhy Are There Pesticides and GMOs in Our National Wildlife Refuges?
You might think that national wildlife refuges would be places where wildlife could take refuge from the environmental insanity of modern American agriculture. But you’d be wrong. Birds, insects, and...
View ArticleUniversity of Minnesota Investigates Sudden Slew of Bee Deaths
Thousands of Minneapolis honey bees began dying off late last week due to apparent pesticide poisoning. The University of Minnesota Bee Lab and the Minnesota Department of Agriculture are conducting...
View ArticleCanada: New Regulations Issued to Stop Bee Population Decline
Health Canada has released a new series of regulations in hopes of mitigating the amounts of pesticide-related deaths bees are seeing across the country. Corn and soybean farmers will now...
View ArticleEl Salvador Bans Monsanto’s RoundUp
El Salvador has voted to ban glyphosate (RoundUp), the pesticide that most GM crops are designed to be grown with, along with 52 other chemicals. With 45 votes in favor,...
View ArticleHerbicides for GMOs Driving Monarch Butterfly Populations to ‘Ominous’ Brink
The migratory population of the monarch butterfly has reached an “ominous” low, researchers in Mexico announced Wednesday. Scientists are attributing the decline of this essential pollinating...
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