• Otter@lemmy.ca
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    Lebanon’s Ministry of Environment formally accused the Israeli military of “an act of ecocide” in April 2026, reporting $25 billion in damages, including the destruction of thousands of hectares of forest and extreme soil contamination that “reshaped both the physical and ecological landscape” of the Lebanese south.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbicidal_warfare

    Making it so that an entire region can no longer plant local crops, and causing sudden large scale changes to local biodiversity, is bad.

    On top of that:

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/glyphosate-retraction-9.7004363

    Decades-old study on common weed killer retracted after journal editor says Monsanto may have helped write it

    The 25-year-old study said the main ingredient in Roundup — the herbicide glyphosate — is safe for humans.

    “It’s really a foundational paper against which a lot of regulatory agencies made decisions about whether or not glyphosate was safe.”