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- Germany to ban controversial weed-killer glyphosate by 2023 Fri, 6 Sep 19, 3:30amReaching for the weed-killer glyphosate in Germany won’t be an option much longer. A primary component of Roundup, manufactured by Bayer-owned Monsanto, glyphosate's critics believe it wipes out insect populations essential...
- Costco to be the first major retailer to cut Roundup from the shelves Sat, 23 Mar 19, 6:10amMoms Across America, a grassroots community of concerned citizens, began a campaign to eliminate the sale of the weed killer Roundup from three major retailers after the recent court decision to uphold the Johnson V...
- New study finds glyphosate in kids' cereals and snack bars Fri, 17 Aug 18, 9:00amBad news for anyone who likes to eat cereal, or granola bars, or anything that contains oats at all: a recent study by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) tested 45 conventional oat products for the presence of glyphosate,...
- Court orders Monsanto to pay $289 million in cancer trial Wed, 15 Aug 18, 7:00amAgrochemical company Monsanto has been ordered to pay $289 million to school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, who said the Bayer subsidiary's chemical products gave him cancer...
- Beekeepers file a complaint against Bayer after glyphosate was discovered in honey Tue, 12 Jun 18, 4:00amBeekeepers in France aren't happy with Bayer. Agence France Presse reported (AFP) a beekeeping cooperative in the northern part of the country filed a legal complaint against the chemical giant after the controversial herbicide...
- Unreleased internal FDA emails show glyphosate weedkiller residue in almost every food tested Tue, 1 May 18, 1:08amFor the past two years, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been testing food samples for the weedkiller glyphosate, but the agency hasn't released any results of their findings...
- EPA official accused of killing investigation into Monsanto weedkiller Tue, 21 Mar 17, 10:59pmAn EPA official who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of Monsanto’s popular Roundup weedkiller has been accused of conspiring with the company to “kill” the study...
- Why this city is waging a war on shamrocks Sat, 18 Mar 17, 12:05amSt. Patrick's day is here, and with the plastic shamrocks popping up in stores everywhere, it got me thinking about the real plant, which grows everywhere around the world, and is under attack with a vengeance by the city...
- Activists call on the EPA to ban glyphosate Wed, 13 Apr 16, 1:37amAs evidence mounts regarding the environmental and health problems associated with widespread use of the pesticide glyphosate—aka Monsanto’s Roundup—consumer advocacy groups are mobilizing to work for government action...
- Why this city spends millions of dollars to eradicate wildflowers Fri, 18 Mar 16, 4:03amOxalis, Sourgrass, Wood Sorrel, Bermuda Buttercup, Shamrock - these are just a few names for a wildly prolific edible plant (aka "weed") which grows everywhere around the world...
- Shocking new map shows where cancer-causing glyphosate sprayed in San Francisco Tue, 8 Mar 16, 1:05amSan Francisco residents can now see where glysophate lurks in their city. After creating a map of areas contaminated with glysophate, sold as Roundup by Monsanto, for New York City, Reverend Billy & The Stop Shopping...
- Disturbing new map shows 2748 locations where NYC has recently sprayed cancer-causing pesticide Tue, 23 Feb 16, 10:01pmBad news, New Yorkers -- if you like to take long walks or pay visits to your local park, you've probably been exposed to glyphosate, the cancer-linked main ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide...
- FDA will finally begin testing food crops for cancer-linked herbicide glyphosate Thu, 18 Feb 16, 4:50amGlyphosate, a powerful herbicide used widely in U.S. agriculture with known links to cancer and autism, has finally become the subject of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) testing. Nearly a year after the World Health Organization (WHO)...
- Monsanto files suit to keep California from declaring Roundup carcinogenic Tue, 26 Jan 16, 6:00amBusiness has been tough for Monsanto in the past year: first, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer declared the herbicide glyphosate (sold under the brand name "Roundup") a probable...
- The 12 most jaw-dropping Inhabitat stories of 2015 Wed, 30 Dec 15, 9:09amFDA finds majority of herbal supplements at GNC, Walmart, Walgreens, and Target don’t contain what they claim – instead cheap fillers like wheat and soy powder