Blog
April 1, 2025
Spain authorized the export of nearly 17,000 tons of substances harmful to people and the environment in 2023, mainly to the Global South. This is exposed in the new report ‘Double Standards, Do...
March 31, 2025
We gathered in front of the European Commission building in Brussels with representatives of environmental and international NGOs, to demand urgent action to stop the export of EU banned pesticides an...
March 26, 2025
Insect and other arthropod populations are rapidly declining. This alarming loss of biodiversity jeopardises our joy of life. After all, what would the world be like if children grew up without the jo...
March 20, 2025
Spring is here, full of new life. But it is also the start of the spraying season. With a Pesticide Action Week, we and our members and partners in different EU countries ask attention to the devastat...
March 18, 2025
A new groundbreaking studyA new groundbreaking German study proves that pesticides spread much further from the field than previously believed. A team of scientists led by Professor Dr. Carsten Brühl ...
March 12, 2025
Neonicotinoid insecticides pose not only a serious threat to biodiversity, but also to human health. Already in small doses they can affect the developing brain of young children. France is trying to ...
March 6, 2025
The future of two PFAS pesticides will be decided in a March 11-12 meeting between the EU Member States and the European Commission. The substances are flufenacet, an endocrine disruptor, and flutolan...
March 3, 2025
Insects and other arthropods are disappearing at an alarming rate all over Europe and pesticides play a major role. We interviewed the German Professor Dr. Carsten Brühl, specialist in ecotoxicology. ...
February 25, 2025
With a new campaign, we pay special attention to the major role pesticides play in Europe’s catastrophic collapse of insect populations. The chemicals decimate the broad family of arthropods - includi...
February 24, 2025
Stopping the import of US products with residues of pesticides no longer approved in Europe is not an ingredient of a trade war. The EU simply has a legal obligation to keep hazardous pesticides ...