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While debate rages over glyphosate-based herbicides, farmers are spraying them all over the world

  • Written by Marion Werner, Associate Professor of Geography, University at Buffalo
While debate rages over glyphosate-based herbicides, farmers are spraying them all over the worldContainers of the herbicide glyphosate at a farm supply store in northeast Thailand in 2019.AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit

As North America enters its peak summer growing season, gardeners are planting and weeding, and groundskeepers are mowing parks and playing fields. Many are using the popular weed killer Roundup, which is widely available at stores...

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