U.S. chemical giant DuPont on Wednesday announced a multiyear partnership with Israel-based biotechnology company Evogene Ltd. to develop a strain of soybeans that carry improved resistance to rust, a ...

(Reuters) – As U.S. farmers struggle to control the rise of “superweeds” choking key crop land, a leading herbicide known as 2,4-D that has shown good weed control for decades appears to be losing its ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Ecologists call it the “pesticide treadmill”: pests like weeds and bugs evolve to ...

The controversial defoliant manufactured by The Dow Chemical Company and Monsanto for the U.S. Department of Defense during the Vietnam War is rumored to be making a comeback in the form of new ...

Even as crops resistant to 2,4-D herbicide are being developed, populations of weeds are also developing a resistance. A 2,4-D–resistant variety of the waterhemp weed has been found, and its spread ...

WASHINGTON, June 10, 2015 – The International Agency for Cancer Research (IARC), an arm of World Health Organization that classified the herbicide glyphosate as a “probable carcinogen,” recently met ...