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Herbicides

July 2024

  • A large grassy field with three robotic weedkillers moving through openings

    Our unequal earth
    Could robot weedkillers replace the need for pesticides?

    The robotic services allow farmers to rely less on chemicals. ‘This solves a lot of problems,’ workers say

May 2024

  • Single Sperm cell<br>GettyImages-154725394

    High levels of weedkiller found in more than half of sperm samples, study finds

    Glyphosate found in samples from French infertility clinic raising questions about controversial chemical’s impact on fertility

January 2024

  • Bees collecting nectar from flowers.

    Where has all the honey gone? Scientists point to factors in declining yields

    Research has found that several factors have hampered bees’ ability to create honey over the past decade

December 2023

  • Orange shelves holding the product Roundup.

    Advocates demand US suspend weed-killing chemical that may cause cancer

  • A container of Roundup weed killer.

    Pregnant women near farms had higher weedkiller levels during spraying season

November 2023

  • Harvesting machinery can be seen behind a wheat crop in a paddock located on the outskirts of the South Australian town of Jamestown, in Australia.

    The rural network
    Australian farmers back EU decision to extend approval of controversial herbicide glyphosate

  • Bottles of Monsanto's Roundup are seen for sale June 19, 2018 at a retail store in Glendale, California.

    ‘It’s an abomination’: battle brewing over proposed US laws to protect pesticide companies

September 2023

  • Roundup composite

    Does glyphosate cause cancer? Australia’s Roundup case against Monsanto will offer a fresh legal answer

    The class action will be decided by a single judge and could be a ‘genuine problem for Monsanto and Bayer if we’re successful’, lawyer says

June 2023

  • A warning sign stands in a field contaminated with dioxin near Danang airport, during a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam Thursday Aug. 9, 2012. The sign reads; "Dioxin contamination zone - livestock, poultry and fishery operations not permitted". The U.S. and Vietnam on Thursday launched a four-year joint effort to clean up dioxin leftover from Agent Orange that was mixed, stored and loaded onto planes at the former U.S. military base, which is now part of Danang s airport. Dioxin can linger in soils and at the bottom of lakes and rivers for generations, entering the food supply through the fat of fish and other animals. (AP Photo/Maika Elan)

    EPA sued over reapproval of toxic herbicides using Agent Orange chemical

    Federal suit brought by public health groups alleges agency’s science shows human risks and harm to endangered species

April 2023

  • FILE PHOTO: Soybean fields as part of University of Wisconsin research in Arlington, Wis.<br>FILE PHOTO: Soy leaves that were damaged by the weed killer dicamba as part of University of Wisconsin research into whether the herbicide drifted away from where it was sprayed in Arlington, Wisconsin, U.S., August 2, 2018. REUTERS/Tom Polansek/File Photo

    EPA accused of failing to regulate use of toxic herbicides despite court order

    Instead of yanking products, EPA made Monsanto and others amend labels before reapproving dicamba, lawsuit claims

March 2023

  • Human brain scan in a neurology clinic.

    Canadian government urged to test sick patients for herbicide

    Patients in New Brunswick with array of symptoms ‘show signs of exposure to glyphosate’, says neurologist

July 2022

  • Grazier Bruce Maynard's farm in between Trangie and Narromine in NSW

    The rural network
    ‘Slow-burning problem’: residual ill will about chemical spray drift

    Farmers in NSW’s central west fear chemical exposure is becoming a threat to food production and authorities are slow to respond

February 2022

  • A person walks past a poster with the phrase 'They want more poison in your food. Cancer caucus' depicting Brazil’s deputies who voted for a law that facilitates the registration of pesticides

    UK trade could promote use of banned pesticides in Brazil, new report warns

  • A herbicide-resistant weed grows in a field of soyabeans in Three Oaks, Michigan.

    One in three Americans have detectable levels of toxic weedkiller, study finds

November 2021

  • Bottles of Roundup are seen in a gardening store in Lille, France.

    Only two out of 11 herbicide studies given to EU regulators deemed ‘reliable’

    Review of safety studies shows vast majority do not meet international standards for scientific validity

August 2021

  • A robot made by Carbon Robotics kills weeds on farmland using lasers.

    Green light
    ‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots

    The makers of robot weeders say the machines can reduce pesticide use and be part of a more sustainable food system

July 2021

  • FRANCE-EU-AGRICULTURE--GLYPHOSATE-WIN FARM<br>A French farmer sprays glyphosate herbicide “Roundup 720” made by agrochemical giant Monsanto, at the rate of 432 grams per hectare, in Piace, northwestern France, in a corn field, near a wind farm on April 23, 2021. - Two root weedkillers, Duald Gold and Spectrum at 1 liter per hectare and a vegetable oil at 0.05 liter per 100 liters are combined with Glyphosate and 36 liters of water per hectare. The plant cover was destroyed mechanically, with a “Duro compil”, which in a single pass crushes the stems, so that they disintegrate in contact with the soil, the air and the test. The corn was sown, then rolled. Experimentation with this technique makes it possible to get out of glyphosate. (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP) (Photo by JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER/AFP via Getty Images)

    Corporate studies asserting herbicide safety show many flaws, new analysis finds

    Revelations come as Europe wrestles over renewal question for Bayer’s Roundup herbicides

October 2020

  • A beekeeper tends to hives beside almond trees on a farm near Griffith, NSW

    Meet the bee brokers: 'You never stop learning about bees, they're just incredible'

    While Covid confines humans to their homes, insects are chauffeured around the country in Australia’s largest livestock movement

September 2020

  • The Syngenta logo on a farm

    Toxic pesticides banned for EU use exported from UK

    Trade loopholes allow chemicals to be sent to developing countries as well as US, Japan and Australia

June 2020

  • The World Health Organization reported a likely link between Roundup and cancer in 2015.

    I believe Roundup gave me cancer. The Monsanto settlement is a slap in the face

    Christine Sheppard
    I have to inject myself with needles just to stay alive. Still, Bayer will continue to sell Roundup, and refused to label it as carcinogenic
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