Sales of organic food grew by 1.2 percent in the UK last year, compared with just 0.3 percent for non-organic.

Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients have announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.

Now, we can reveal Wikipedia has been subject to shady, paid-for edits ordered by partners at an elite London PR firm with links to Downing Street. And the clients who benefitted from this “wikilaundering” are some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.

The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has risen to a record high of nearly 100,000, the country’s government has announced.

Monsanto has reached settlement agreements in nearly 100,000 Roundup cancer lawsuits, paying approximately $11 billion.

Burkina Faso's military government under Ibrahim Traoré has ordered the immediate halt of an initiative backed by US billionaire Bill Gates to employ genetically modified insects to cure malaria and other mosquito-borne ailments.

Zimbabwe has been removed from the global list of hunger hotspots, a major development signaling early signs of recovery from the catastrophic El Nino-induced drought that gripped the region over the past year.

Florida's House has passed a bill to ban weather modification and geoengineering.