The Organic & Non-GMO Report Newsletter

Organic farms can take climate change fighting power to new level

The Organic Center pinpoints practices that boost carbon sequestration by double digits Organic agriculture’s proven ability to lock carbon away in the soil is a critical tool for combatting climate change. Now, a new study directed by the University of Maryland in collaboration with The Organic Center, digs down into the specific ways that organic […]

Making America’s rivers blue again: Connecting the dots between regenerative agriculture and healthy waterways

By John Roulac Two hundred years ago, before the Industrial Revolution, the rivers across North America ran clear and blue. Rivers from the mighty Mississippi to the Columbia flowed wild and clean into the sea. In the 1800s and 1900s, the growth of manufacturing and agriculture across the continent brought prosperity to America, but at […]

Are glyphosate-based herbicides poisoning us and the environment?

by Patrick Holden  A new study, published on 27th January in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, conducted by an international team of scientists led by Dr. Michael Antoniou of Kings College London, found that exposure to glyphosate and its commercial Roundup formulation can disrupt the function of gut microbiome (bacteria and fungi) and internal body systems with […]

Herbicides dicamba and 2,4-D found in rainwater

Recent data from a University of Missouri study indicate that toxic herbicides commonly used on major crops have been detected in rainwater. Dicamba, used on GM Xtend crops (XtendiMax formulation), was found in weekly rainwater collections from 12 sites across Missouri throughout the 2019 season. In the southern corner of the state, the Bootheel, dicamba […]

Glyphosate causes DNA damage in keystone species, impacting food chain

Can a small, almost undetectable change at lower levels of the food chain affect the chain at higher points? A recent study from the University of Birmingham, UK reported that even tiny amounts of the herbicide glyphosate can damage DNA in water fleas (Daphnia), a type of plankton key to the food chain of freshwater […]