Estimates suggest pesticide use is up 80 percent since 1990. That’s a problem for the world’s biodiversity.
Herbicide Dicamba Banned by U.S. Court of Appeals
“The approved over-the-top use of dicamba and resulting dicamba drift has damaged millions of acres of soybean fields and countless acres of damage to other crops.”
“Food Evolution” Documentary Supports GMOs, but Not Science
The recently released documentary “Food Evolution” fails at exploring the central issue of the safety of the most common genetically engineered (GE) crops. Any reasonable discussion about the science of GMOs and the products they were designed to use must include such debate.
Interactive Toolkits Unpack the Histories of Pesticides
A team of researchers with the Children’s Environmental Health Network (CEHN) has created a series of interactive educational tools to explore the histories of widely-used pesticides, including glyphosate, dicamba, and 2,4-D.
