Pesticides

Testing finds glyphosate in two popular oat milks

Two out of 13 popular brands of oat milk had detectable levels of the controversial herbicide glyphosate, according to a new report from Mamavation. Partnering with Environmental Health News, the environmental wellness blog and community had the oat milks tested by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-certified lab for glyphosate and heavy metals. They found traces of […]

Farmers, conservationists ask court to strike down crop-damaging dicamba pesticide

  Toxic drift continues to harm millions of farmland acres, wild places, endangered species Four public-interest organizations representing farmers and conservationists recently filed arguments seeking to have a federal court again strike down the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial approval of the drift-prone, volatile herbicide dicamba. The arguments, filed on April 11, are a continuation of an earlier lawsuit […]

First trials over deadly pesticide Paraquat scheduled for this year

More than 3,000 farmers have filed lawsuits against paraquat’s manufacturers, Chevron and Syngenta The herbicide paraquat was introduced in 1962 and promoted as an alternative to plowing soil, which began to fall into disfavor because of its degradation of soil. Chevron, paraquat’s manufacturer, claimed the weedkiller was necessary for no-till farming. Paraquat remains one of […]

EU report: Non-toxic alternatives to glyphosate are accessible and financially feasible

As policymakers in the European Union develop plans to cut pesticide use and risk in half, Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Europe, working with the European Greens, recently released a report laying out safer, non-chemical alternatives to glyphosate-based herbicides. Glyphosate is the active ingredient in Roundup, the most popular global weedkiller, and is present in 33% […]

Pollination loss removes healthy foods from global diets, increases chronic diseases causing excess deaths

Inadequate pollination has led to a 3-5% loss of fruit, vegetable, and nut production and an estimated 427,000 excess deaths annually from lost healthy food consumption and associated diseases, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and certain cancers, according to research led by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. It is the first study to […]