The U.S. and Brazilian governments are moving into the final stages of weighing approval for the commercialisation of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees, moves that would mark the first such ...

Like managed honey bees and native bees, moths and butterflies are also important pollinators. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service lists nearly 40 pollinator species as threatened or endangered, and ...

WASHINGTON— In response to a decade of advocacy by conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect monarch butterflies as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

RT @protesterrabbit: Always buy seeds or use your own from previous year. I get mine from Mother Nature of Powell River, B.C. ! https://t.c… The legal battle around #chlorpyrifos continues. The 9th ...

Washington, DC – On Tuesday, EPA released a long-awaited draft report demonstrating that toxic "forever chemicals" in sewage sludge applied to farmland can cause cancer and other diseases in people ...

Lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration for failure to regulate genetically engineered GloFish, the first genetically engineered pet to enter U.S. market ...

Did you know that over 90% of GE crops grown in Hawaiʻi are inedible, experimental corn and soybean varieties, and that chemical companies are spraying pesticides 2 out of every 3 days, up to 16 ...

For many Americans, popcorn ranks high on the list of snack favorites and has unquestionably become a movie theater staple. Since the 1990s, roughly 1 billion pounds of unpopped popcorn have been sold ...

Bees and other beneficial pollinators are disappearing at alarming rates. While we may not know the exact cause of the disappearance, we do know that some pesticides are contributing to their decline.

WASHINGTON— In response to a decade of advocacy by conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed to protect monarch butterflies as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

Article by CFS's Science Policy Analyst Bill Freese, published in the January / February 2007 edition of the Food and Drug Law Institute's Update Magazine.