Who is ready for some good news? I thought so. Last week, Maryland became the first state in the nation to ban the use of arsenic in chicken feed. W...
Alex Formuzis | Posted 05.23.2012
A pesticide used on conventional produce may be deemed "safe" one day only to be restricted or banned the next when new evidence comes in.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 05.18.2012
Jack Algiere has no qualms about letting his kids eat their veggies straight out of the ground from the fields and greenhouses he manages in Pocantico...
Frances Beinecke | Posted 05.16.2012
Today, NRDC announces the winners of the 2012 Growing Green Awards. These awards celebrate the farmers, business owners, and bold thinkers who are transforming America's food system.
Heather Pilatic | Posted 05.16.2012
In the last few weeks beekeepers have reported staggering losses in Minnesota, Nebraska and Ohio after their hives foraged on pesticide-treated corn fields. Indiana too, two years ago. What's going on in the Corn Belt?
Alex Formuzis | Posted 05.15.2012
In June 1993, the Environmental Working Group released a report titled "Pesticides in Children's Food." In the very first line of the forward to that ...
Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.10.2012
What a new report found is that women tend to support clean air, clean water, and overall environmental protections within the aim of promoting public health and resource conservation for future generations.
Maria Rodale | Posted 05.08.2012
by guest blogger Alex Formuzis, of the Environmental Working Group The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began testing fruits and vegetables for ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.03.2012
For 13 years Sofia Gatica has organized opposition to the aerial spraying of agrochemicals that threaten human health and the environment in Argentina...
Bill Chameides | Posted 05.03.2012
Last Call at the Oasis highlights global water crisis but opines that the "glass is half full."
Annie Spiegelman | Posted 05.02.2012
Researchers worldwide have been scrambling to discover why bees are dying in record numbers. If you're not a huge fan of the bee, why should this matter to you? Well, if you like to eat food, you should be concerned.
Bill Chameides | Posted 04.26.2012
What happens in Las Vegas may stay in Las Vegas, but what is sprayed on industrial farms does not necessarily stay on those industrial farms.
Robert Koehler | Posted 04.12.2012
To fight our insane wars, we're wrecking our soldiers' ability to live with themselves and function in society, then regulating what's left of them with chemicals, which often make things immeasurably worse.
Alex Formuzis | Posted 04.10.2012
New online videos from a chemical agribusiness front group show conventional growers straining to convince consumers that it's just fine to eat bug killers and weed killers.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 04.05.2012
An expectant mother's exposure to commonly used pesticides might pose risks to her developing fetus comparable to those long associated with tobacco s...
Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 04.05.2012
The USDA is currently deciding whether or not to approve an application by Dow Chemical for its controversial genetically engineered (GE) corn variety resistant to hazardous herbicides.
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.03.2012
TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Biden sla...
Heather Pilatic | Posted 05.29.2012
Pesticides are prevalent, persistent and more scientists confirm everyday that they are making bees sick (or dead). The sad truth? Beekeepers have been sounding this alarm from the ground for years. Would that we had listened.
Reuters | Posted 05.29.2012
By Kate Kelland LONDON, March 29 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered ways in which even low doses of widely used pesticides can har...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.27.2012
Laura Vandenberg worries whenever she hears a pregnant friend talk about painting a nursery. She gets even more concerned when she learns of a childbe...
Bill Chameides | Posted 05.27.2012
Crossposted with TheGreenGrok.More than 80,000 chemicals are produced, used, and present in the United States. This is one of their stories. Do you we...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 03.27.2012
When they started feeling woozy barely an hour into their batting practice, Alan Gorkin and his son Tristan, then 12 years old, didn't think too much ...
Reuters | Carey Gillam | Posted 05.09.2012
By Carey Gillam (Reuters) - A group of plant scientists is warning federal regulators that action is needed to mitigate a growing probl...
Richard Schiffman | Posted 04.18.2012
These two biotech giants have developed a weed management program that, if successful, would go a long way toward a predicted doubling of harmful herbicide use in America's corn belt during the next decade.
Elliott Negin | Posted 04.11.2012
Given the unvarnished facts about the failures of Monsanto's products and its widespread damage to the environment, how has the company been able to convince anyone that it is, according to its latest PR effort, "improving agriculture and improving lives"?
Michele Simon | Posted 05.28.2012