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Monsanto ordered to pay $81 mn in Roundup cancer trial

Mar 28, 2019 (AFP)

A San Francisco jury found the firm, which is owned by Bayer, had been "negligent by not using reasonable care" to warn of the risks of its product, ordering it...

Plant seed research provides basis for sustainable alternatives to chemical fertilizers

Mar 27, 2019 (SPX)

Thanks to the enhanced development of high-throughput sequencing methods, plant seed microbiomes have been increasingly studied. In a study published in the ful...

China expands ban on Canadian canola imports to second firm

Mar 27, 2019 (AFP)

Following the detection of harmful organisms in canola shipments from Viterra Inc., China's customs authority has decided to revoke the firm's company registrat...

Seeds share memories with their offspring

Mar 26, 2019 (UPI)

When environmental conditions aren't ideal, seeds temporarily block germination and remain in a dormant state. Groups of "interfering" RNA, which carry the impr...

Toxicologist denies manipulating studies in Monsanto damages proceedings

Mar 23, 2019 (AFP)

One of the lawyers for the plaintiff -- a 70-year-old retiree with cancer -- asked Dr Donna Farmer to explain internal documents from Monsanto made public in 20...

From tree killing beetles to crop disease: Central America's struggles with drought

Mar 21, 2019 (AFP)

The southern pine beetle -- or gorgojo, as it is known locally -- appears in large numbers during droughts brought on by El Nino, a climatic phenomenon that occ...

Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller contributed to US man's cancer: jury

Mar 20, 2019 (AFP)

Edwin Hardeman, 70, treated his property in Sonoma County, California, regularly with the herbicide from 1980 to 2012 and was eventually diagnosed with non-Hodg...

Five things to know about Bayer and Monsanto

Mar 20, 2019 (AFP)

From the toxic legacy of Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller to fears about its use of genetically modified seeds, here's what you need to know about the $63-billion ...

'Meatless Mondays' on horizon for New York City schools

Mar 12, 2019 (AFP)

"Cutting back on meat a little will improve New Yorkers' health and reduce greenhouse gas emissions," Democrat de Blasio said. The program, which began in 15 Br...

Houston, we're here to help the farmers

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

"Technically, the instruments are measuring surface temperature, which reflects the heat stress of plants," explains Joshua Fisher of NASA's Jet Propulsion Labo...

EU food watchdog must disclose glyphosate studies: court

Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)

The General Court annulled decisions by the European Food Safety Authority "refusing access to the toxicity and carcinogenicity studies on the active substance ...

Pesticides affect bumblebee genes; scientists call for stricter regulations

Mar 07, 2019 (UPI)

Their findings, published in the journal Molecular Ecology, suggest insecticides alter dozens of genes responsible for a diverse array of biological processes. ...

Duque asks court to allow banned weedkiller on cocaine

Mar 07, 2019 (AFP)

"My respectful request is for the decision to be modified... a modification that takes into account the fact that the growth of these plantations is tremendousl...

Improving ecosystems with aquatic plants

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

Their discoveries are shared in the article Greenhouse Production of Native Aquatic Plants available Open Access in the February issue of HortTechnology. Wetlan...

Researchers discover sustainable and natural alternative to man-made chemical pesticides

Mar 06, 2019 (SPX)

Finding natural approaches to sustain agriculture and food production is a major global challenge. Synthetic chemical pesticides have traditionally been used to...

China says 'pests' found in blocked Canadian canola shipments

Mar 06, 2019 (AFP)

Canada's largest agricultural handler, Winnipeg-based Richardson International, had its licence to ship canola to China revoked on March 1, which risks leaving ...

Canada FM decries China halting canola shipments

Mar 05, 2019 (AFP)

Canada's largest agricultural handler, Winnipeg-based Richardson International, had its license to ship canola to China revoked on March 1, which risks leaving ...

Trump urges China to remove tariffs on US agricultural products

Mar 02, 2019 (AFP)

"I have asked China to immediately remove all Tariffs on our agricultural products (including beef, pork, etc.)," the president wrote on Twitter. He said his re...

'Equine strep throat' kills 4,000 donkeys in Niger

Mar 01, 2019 (AFP)

"Of the 8,392 donkeys affected by equine distemper or equine strep throat, more than half succumbed since the infection appeared in the first 10 days of Decembe...

Getting to the core of underwater soil

Feb 28, 2019 (SPX)

One of these scientists is Mark Stolt from the University of Rhode Island. He and his team are working to sample and map underwater soils. "Considering that nea...