Trading standards have launched an investigation after Unearthed found illegal pesticides and weedkillers easily available to UK consumers. CRISPIN DOWLER reports
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With planning permission for Britain's biggest dairy at Nocton about to be re-submitted, The Ecologist travels to California to examine intensive milk production - and finds factory farms, conflict, intimidation, pesticides, pollution and small-scale farmers driven out of business...
Undercover investigation:The shocking cost of US 'mega-dairies' Jim Wickens | 21st September 2010 News Dairy Factory Farming Milk Pesticides Pollution Food And Farming rotary-parlour-cropped.jpg With …
The Environment Agency (EA) is within weeks of letting Monsanto escape its liability for dumping thousands of tonnes of cancer-causing chemicals – including all the ingredients of the DDT defoliant Agent Orange – in two quarries in Wales.
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Dust off your old bread maker and get your hands dirty during Real Bread Maker Week from May 9 - 16
TAKE ACTION: Make a loaf of bread for the Real Bread Campaign Matilda Lee | 11th May 2011 Activism Food And Farming Bread Chorleywood Process Real Bread Campaign Independent Retailer Pesticides …
Two years on from our first investigation of the impact of intensive soya farming, Friends of the Earth campaigner Nick Rau explains how progress in tackling the problems are still frustratingly slow
Return to the killing fields: the unspoken cost of Europe's cheap meat Nick Rau | 14th July 2011 Comment Food And Farming Paraguay Brazil Soy Pesticides foesoyfieldsvictim.jpg Petrona Villasboa, …
At what point are technologies so complex, uncertain, or unmanageable as to be beyond regulation? The question is key to human and ecological health, writes Jonatham Latham. But instead of learning from successful approaches, such as aviation safety, we are throwing the lessons away when faced with truly complex problems - like chemicals, GMOs, and now 'gene drives'.
Gene drives: the scientific case for a complete and perpetual ban Jonathan Latham | 13th February 2017 News Regulation GMOs Health Toxics Ecology Pesticides chemical-valley-cut.jpg At what point are …
A 2001 study that showed that glyphosate caused cancer in mice was ignored by the EFSA after the unsubstantiated allegation of a former US-EPA official that the mice used in the study were suffering from a viral infection that might have given them cancer, writes Claire Robinson. The EFSA failed to properly investigate the allegation, which appears to originate in a document linked to Monsanto, maker of the world's top-selling herbicide, glyphosate-based Roundup.
EFSA dismissed glyphosate cancer study after unsupported 'viral infection' slur of ex-EPA official Claire Robinson GMWatch | 25th May 2017 News Science Pesticides Regulation Corporations Food Health …
A new study shows that 99.6% of Germans are contaminated with the herbicide glyphosate, writes Nicole Sagener. The news comes as the EU puts off a crucial decision on whether to re-authorise the chemical, described by IARC as 'probably carcinogenic', until 2031.
Almost all Germans contaminated with glyphosate Nicole Sagener EurActiv.de | 8th March 2016 News EU Toxics Regulation Farming Corporations Pesticides germans-cut.jpg A new study shows that 99.6% of …
Cutting-edge molecular profiling analyses reveal that the popular weedkiller Roundup causes serious liver damage to rats at low doses permitted by regulators, reports Claire Robinson. The findings suggest that residues of glyphosate-based herbicides in food could be linked to rises in the incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, diabetes and 'metabolic syndrome'.
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Despite a surge of interest in organic gardening, green fingered consumers continue to favour toxic chemicals to combat pests. But are they being exploited by clever marketing and inaccurate labelling? Sarah Bentley investigates
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The 'Immokalee babies' were born with severe deformities after their mothers were each exposed to pesticides whilst harvesting tomatoes. Barry Estabrook reports on the case that shocked the US
… the mother of limbless Carlitos. Subsequent investigations showed that Herrera worked in …
UK companies are flooding poorer countries with agrochemicals that are banned in the EU.
UK exporting toxic pesticides Catherine Early | 14th September 2020 | News Pesticides Export Chemicals Greenpeace Pesticide spraying UK companies are flooding poorer countries with agrochemicals that …
The Frontline Club holds a special London screening of acclaimed film - Bananas!* - exposing the scandal of pesticide use in banana cultivation
Why you should think twice before eating bananas The Ecologist | 21st January 2011 Other Bananas Food And Farming Pesticides Video bananas_plane_350dpi.jpg The Frontline Club holds a special London …
A planned nickel mine in Madagasca has led to numerous environmental problems, and whilst the mine continues to struggle the environmental concerns surrounding the project continue to grow. LAURENCE SOUSTRAS investigates.
Ambatovy: a tale of reverse development? Laurence Soustras | 23rd November 2017 News Madagascar Coal Mining Pesticides Bees Pipeline The Lemur Catta Face Lemur A planned nickel mine in Madagasca has …
Water in France's 'breadbasket' - where much of the wheat used to make the iconic baguette is grown - is under threat from industrial agriculture, with excessive consumption and contamination by pesticides and nitrates. Carolyn Lebel reports...
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The documentary Bananas! highlighted plight of Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who brought a legal case in the US against the use of a banned pesticide DBCP by the Dole Food Company. Tom Levitt reports
The film that stood up to banana giant Dole over pesticide poisoning (and won) Tom Levitt | 14th March 2011 News Bananas Activism Pesticides Chemicals Food And Farming bananasmovie.jpg Banana giant …
Main ingredient of Monsanto's Roundup weed killer is being linked to cancer, birth defects and Parkinson's disease and should be banned, according to campaigners behind new report
Greenpeace takes on Monsanto over 'pesticides arms race' Tom Levitt | 30th June 2011 News Monsanto Pesticides Chemicasl Food And Farming roundup.jpg Monsanto's Roundup is one of the most commonly …
A pioneering campaign is challenging industrial agriculture in Africa, returning food sovereignty to the people and empowering women to lead a new movement that rejects the 'pesticide and loan culture' of the first Green Revolution. Chris Milton reports
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We were sitting chatting outside our home when two small planes flew over very low. We went down to our fields to see what was happening. My husband said, “Look, they’re dropping poison on our land.”
… defeat and it appears that behind-the-scenes investigations into biological weapons …
A study of GMO cotton varieties shows they disrupt an important beneficial soil fungus, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji, apparently due to the Bt insecticide they are engineered to express. Disruption caused by the transgenic cotton to mycorrhizal fungi, and the wider soil ecosystem, may underlie the low yields and poor pest resistance now endemic among Bt GM crops.
Vital soil fungi damaged by GMO Bt cotton Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji | 24th November 2016 News GMOs Farming Ecology Agroecology Pesticides csiro_scienceimage_7410_a_larva_of_helicoverpa_armigera-cut.jpg …
They promote GMOs, defend toxic chemicals, and attack people who raise concerns about those products as 'anti-science'. But behind the slick 'astroturf' PR fronts lurk some very dubious funders: the same arch-conservative foundations that finance climate science denial. Stacy Malkan exposes the key players in the agribusiness and chemical industry propaganda wars.
Propaganda wars: 'pro-science' GMO, chemicals boosters funded by climate change deniers Stacy Malkan | 28th February 2017 News GMOs Pesticides Toxics Climate Change Media Spin Finance USA …
The threat posed to vital honeybee populations by neonicotinoid pesticides has long been a cause for serious concern. Now industry funded research proves that those concerns are well founded.
Neonicotinoid pesticides do harm honeybees, shows first industry funded pan-European field study The Ecologist | 30th June 2017 News Honeybees Neonicotinoid Pesticides …
The exuberance of childhood celebrated in books such as Just William is now frowned upon as inappropriate behaviour, resulting in more and more children being prescribed behavioural drugs. Rachel Ragg investigates
School Uniformity Rachel Ragg | 22nd September 2006 News Children Parents Boy Girl Behaviour Mental Health Health Medicine Drugs Pharmaceuticals Play Culture Control Children Drugs Organics Organics …
New research suggests that we are heading for an "ecological Armageddon" that will affect all life on the planet, including humans. COLIN TODHUNTER investigates.
Rolling back the tide of pesticide poison, corruption and looming mass extinction Colin Todhunter | 24th November 2017 Comment Pesticides Extinction Corruption Tobacco WTO Many insects, including …