The week in audio: Sonic Fields; Buried: The Last Witness; The Vaping Wars – review
‘Please come and see me because I’ll be dead soon’: how Michael Sheen got sucked into a forever chemicals exposé
December 2023
Monsanto ordered to pay $857m to ex-students of Seattle school for toxic leaks
Parent volunteers and students claimed polychlorinated biphenyls leaked from the firm’s light fixtures made them sick
November 2023
The rural network
Australian farmers back EU decision to extend approval of controversial herbicide glyphosate
The decision comes as a landmark class action against the manufacturer of glyphosate weedkiller Roundup is before the federal court
September 2023
Does glyphosate cause cancer? Australia’s Roundup case against Monsanto will offer a fresh legal answer
Court hears class action case alleging link between Roundup and Australians with cancer
August 2023
US mother accuses GE and Bayer of causing son’s cancer
Crystal Czerno says GE knowingly contaminated nine-year-old son’s school playground with PCB waste while downplaying harm
April 2023
Fighting giants: eco-activist Vandana Shiva on her battle against GM multinationals
EPA accused of failing to regulate use of toxic herbicides despite court order
October 2022
The rural network
60 years on since Silent Spring, David Pocock enters the debate on food and pesticides
Toxic nation: Australia's pesticide problem
Gardeners beware: household chemicals banned overseas are still used in Australia
August 2022
America's dirty divide
Popular weedkiller Roundup on trial again as cancer victims demand justice
A long list of upcoming trials complicating Bayer’s efforts to escape the costly, ongoing litigation over the health effects of Roundup
June 2022
EU regulators ‘dismissed evidence’ linking glyphosate to rodent tumours
European Chemical Agency’s positive assessment for continued sale of substance is flawed, say environmental campaigners
November 2021
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
September 2021
Percy vs Goliath review – Christopher Walken battles Big Agriculture
The New Yorker makes no effort to sound Canadian or look like real life Saskatchewan farmer Percy Schmeiser, but he still steals the show
July 2021
Three US teachers who sued Monsanto over chemical exposure awarded $185m
Corporate studies asserting herbicide safety show many flaws, new analysis finds
February 2021
Revealed: Monsanto owner and US officials pressured Mexico to drop glyphosate ban
Internal government emails show actions similar to those by Bayer and lobbyists to kill a proposed ban in Thailand in 2019
November 2020
Environmental investigations
War of the weedkiller: why environmentalists are concerned about moves to ban Roundup
Many say herbicide is an essential tool in preserving biodiversity but others say it’s a ‘delusion’ to think weed control is only possible with ‘poison’
August 2020
You have pesticides in your body. But an organic diet can reduce them by 70%
Kendra Klein and Anna Lappé
A new study shows that US families consume cancer-linked glyphosate in their food. The good news: going organic rapidly reduces levels
