glyphosate
Americannoun
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A Virginia Tech study found that glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, can interfere with honeybee foraging and may undermine the long-term stability of colonies.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026
Since then, he and roughly 170,000 other users have been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and related cancers associated with extended exposure to glyphosate, Roundup’s key ingredient and a probable carcinogen.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2026
Plaintiff attorneys have filed thousands of lawsuits in state courts against Bayer, which owns Monsanto, claiming that Roundup’s main ingredient glyphosate gave them cancer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Bayer CEO Bill Anderson said that that the settlement proposal “doesn’t take away from the truth, a truth that scientists and regulators around the planet continue to uphold, that glyphosate is safe and essential.”
From Barron's ● Jun. 25, 2026
Scientists have found evidence that glyphosate, one of the world's most widely used herbicides, may help select for bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
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