The California Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it plans to label glyphosate — the most widely used herbicide and main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup — as a chemical "known to cause cancer." The World Health Organization's research arm also...

The Green Party warned on Friday about the health risks of breast-feeding after traces of a substance found in weed-killer were found in breast milk. Source: www.thelocal.de The Green party made their warning after testing the breast milk of 16 women from a variety of...

Spraying weeds with synthetic chemicals could be a thing of the past in a few years if the Sunshine Coast Council has its way. Source: http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2015/06/22/4259440.htm It is phasing out the use of controversial pesticide glyphosate - the...

French Environment and Energy Minister Segolene Royal said on Sunday she would ask garden shops to stop selling Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller as part of a wider fight against pesticides seen as potentially harmful to humans. Source: Reuters "France must be offensive...

Sri Lanka’s newly elected President Maithripala Sirisena announced Friday that the import of the World’s most used herbicide glyphosate will be banned with immediate effect. The release of already imported stocks has also been stopped. Source: Sustainable Pulse...

The International Society of Doctors for the Environment (ISDE) has written to officials of the EU Parliament and Commission asking for an immediate ban on glyphosate herbicides and four insecticides judged by the World Health Organisation’s cancer agency, IARC, to be...