Monsanto

By Lambert Strether of Corrente Fun-loving readers, I noted Hopelb’s comment on Victory Gardens (June 9 on a Midwest flooding post), and thought I’d put together a potted history of Victory Gardens with some remarks on climate change, with one or two Worl…

EVERETT, Mass. At 10 a.m. Sunday, amid fanfare and tourists angling to see it, Encore Boston Harbor the largest casino resort in the Northeast and likely its most luxurious opens in this industrial city on the north lip of Boston, on the former site of a Mons…

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Bayer AG has asked a California judge to overrule a $2 billion verdict by jurors who found the company’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer responsible for a couple’s cancer, arguing the jury decision was not supported by evidence. The German drugmaker and…

REUTERS: Bayer AG has asked a California judge to overrule a US$2 billion verdict by jurors who found the company's glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer responsible for a couple's cancer, arguing the jury decision was not supported by evidence. The German dr…

Berlin (AFP) - US seeds and pesticides maker Monsanto kept lists of around 600 key pro- and anti-pesticides figures in Germany and France alone, its German parent company Bayer said Monday amid a widening probe. Bayer has admitted the lists covered politicia…

Turmoil both in and outside courtrooms appears to be growing for Monsanto, a unit of German owner Bayer AG, as the company works to meet overlapping deadlines for appeal actions in the three Roundup cancer trials Monsanto has lost so far at the same t…

Bayer, the crop science and chemicals giant, said it would invest more than $5.6 billion in weedkiller research and trim its environmental impact - a move that follows three consecutive jury verdicts involving one of its top-selling herbicides.Bayer acquired …

Bayer AG will pump about 5 billion euros ($5.6 billion) of its research and development budget into alternatives to its weedkiller glyphosate over the next decade as it battles more than 13,000 lawsuits claiming the herbicide causes cancer. Trying to ease co…

While glyphosate will continue to play an important role in agriculture and in Bayers portfolio, the company is committed to offering more choices for growers, Bayer said in a statement on Friday.Bayer said these measures seek to address public concerns arisi…